Book Launch with Roberta Buiani – Viral Behaviors
Address
D.G. Ivey Library New College, 20 Willcocks Street, Toronto
Dates
Event start date : 11/14/2024
Event end date : 11/14/2024
Event start time : 05:00 PM
Event end time : 07:00 PM
Event Description
Join author Roberta Buiani on Thursday, November 14 at D.G. Ivey Library from 5 – 7 PM to launch her book Viral Behaviors Viruses and Viral Phenomena across Science, Technology, and the Arts. She will be discussing Viral Behaviors and the various artists included in the book.
Event Details
Date: Thursday, November 14, 2024
Time: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Address: D.G. Ivey Library (New College), 20 Willcocks Street, Toronto
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About the Book: Viral Behaviors. Viruses and Viral Phenomena across Science, Technology, and the Arts
In a new era of global virology that requires novel methodologies to improve the comprehension of viruses and viral phenomena, Viral Behaviors explores the cultural, material, and artistic significance of viruses and viral phenomena.
Across a rich variety of case studies stemming from different areas of interest-covering literature, the graphic arts and scientific visualization, as well as performance, installation and bioart —this book asks whether embracing the complexity of viruses, rather than obsessively measuring, dissecting, or precisely mapping their parts and manifestations, may provide new methodological directions in the intersection of scientific thinking and artistic practice.
Viral Behaviors examines the struggles and successes of science and technology to tame the elusive nature and behaviour of viruses, and the potential of art-based and cross-disciplinary collaborations to better communicate their complex making and intense entanglement with the world at large.
Combining perspectives from art, philosophy, science and technology, it places biological and informational viruses alongside each other, revealing that, while the two types of agents affect the world in very different ways, their histories and manifestations contain surprising similarities that speak to a cultural continuum.
About the Author:
Roberta Buiani is Assistant Professor (Teaching Stream) and coordinator of the NewONE: Learning without Borders at New College, University of Toronto, director of the ArtSci Salon at the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, and co-director of the SLOlab at York University.
RSVP Today!
Event Details
Date: Thursday, November 14, 2024
Time: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Address: D.G. Ivey Library (New College), 20 Willcocks Street, Toronto
RSVP Today!
About the Book: Viral Behaviors. Viruses and Viral Phenomena across Science, Technology, and the Arts
In a new era of global virology that requires novel methodologies to improve the comprehension of viruses and viral phenomena, Viral Behaviors explores the cultural, material, and artistic significance of viruses and viral phenomena.
Across a rich variety of case studies stemming from different areas of interest-covering literature, the graphic arts and scientific visualization, as well as performance, installation and bioart —this book asks whether embracing the complexity of viruses, rather than obsessively measuring, dissecting, or precisely mapping their parts and manifestations, may provide new methodological directions in the intersection of scientific thinking and artistic practice.
Viral Behaviors examines the struggles and successes of science and technology to tame the elusive nature and behaviour of viruses, and the potential of art-based and cross-disciplinary collaborations to better communicate their complex making and intense entanglement with the world at large.
Combining perspectives from art, philosophy, science and technology, it places biological and informational viruses alongside each other, revealing that, while the two types of agents affect the world in very different ways, their histories and manifestations contain surprising similarities that speak to a cultural continuum.
About the Author:
Roberta Buiani is Assistant Professor (Teaching Stream) and coordinator of the NewONE: Learning without Borders at New College, University of Toronto, director of the ArtSci Salon at the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, and co-director of the SLOlab at York University.
RSVP Today!