The Tompkins County Public Library will host “Alluring Androids and Robots in Film, Photography and Art” a discussion by author Julie Wosk, Saturday, September 25 at 2:00 PM in the BorgWarner Community Room.
Wosk, a professor of art history, English and studio painting at SUNY Maritime College, will discuss the long fascination among filmmakers, photographers and artists with the idea of artificial women that seem alive. Through an illustrated lecture, Wosk will explore provocative questions about how men and women’s views on robots differ, whether the images of female robots reveal men’s fantasies and fears about women, and what will happen when society is unable to tell the difference between real people and fabricated ones.
This program is sponsored by the New York State Council for the Humanities and is being held in conjunction with the 2010 Community Read of Philip K. Dick’s “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”. It is free and open to the public.
Wosk is the author of "Women and the Machine: Representations From the Spinning Wheel to the Electric Age" (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001) and "Breaking Frame: Technology and the Visual Arts in the Nineteenth Century" (Rutgers University Press, 1992), as well as numerous articles and reviews. For more information, visit her website at juliewosk.com.
For more information, contact Carrie Wheeler-Carmenatty at (607) 272-4557 extension 248 or cwheeler@tcpl.org.
The 2010 Community Read is made possible by the Brooks Family Foundation and Cornell University.
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