John Naughton听(颁搁础厂厂贬)听in conversation with听Sheila Hayman听(BAFTA award-winning filmmaker)
How might the concept of performance help us think through the implications, or itself be suggested by, a digital world?听
12 October 2015, 5-7pm
Room SG1, Alison Richard Building
听John Naughton,听a columnist for the听Observer听since 1987, is author of two well-known histories of the Internet:听A Brief History of the Future听(2000) and听From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: what you really need to know about the Internet(2012).听John鈥檚 seminal work explores the changes in our information ecosystem brought about by technological change (http://www.digitalhumanities.cam.ac.uk/directory/johnnaughton). 听He is also a Senior Research Fellow at CRASSH (海角社区 Centre for Digital Knowledge,Technology, Democracy and the Digital Society and Director of the Leverhulme-funded project Conspiracy and Democracy), Emeritus Professor of the Public Understanding of Technology at the Open University, and was Vice-President of Wolfson College from 2011-2015. Sheila Hayman听spent a decade watching the future reframe itself as the digital world developed. Her documentary series, 鈥楢 Short History of the Future鈥� traced the origins of our shared vision of a future shaped by technology (teleporters, videophones, self-driving cars, silver zoot suits, skyscraper buildings): 鈥楾he Electronic Frontier鈥� showed how digital technology was already, in 1992, changing that shared future, as the solid certainties of the physical world dissolved into the virtual.听She will show and discuss clips from these and other documentaries.听
Open to all.听 No registration required Part of the听series Administrative assistance:听gradfac@crassh.cam.ac.uk
