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Jane Prophet: An Artist's View of the Future of the Museum
April 4, 2007
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Jane Prophet, a British artist who works across disciplines to create internationally acclaimed projects that have broken new ground in art, technology, and science, discusses her artwork.

Jane Prophet's work, which includes large-scale installations, digital print, Websites and CD-ROMs, reflects her interest in complexity theory, landscape and artificial life. Among her past projects are the award-winning website, TechnoSphere, and The Landscape Room, an installation that combines photographs with computer-simulated landscapes. In October 2006, she completed a solo show at Paco das Artes, which coincided with the Sao Paulo Biennale.

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Evgeny Morozov
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Amid the euphoria about the power of the Internet and social media, Morozov sounds a note of caution. He reminds us that these tools can also entrench dictators, threaten dissidents, and make it harder—not easier—to promote democracy.
Kevin Kelly: What Technology Wants
Kevin Kelly
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In a brand-new view of technology, co-founder of Wired magazine Kevin Kelly suggests that it is not just a jumble of wires and metal. He argues that technology is actually a living, evolving organism that has its own unconscious needs and tendencies.
Common As Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership
Lewis Hyde
01:08:00
Lewis Hyde of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society defends the concept of the "cultural commons." How has our cultural heritage, the store of ideas, art, and inventions we have inherited from the past, come to be seen as "intellectual property?" Have we taken the concept of "ownership" too
Tim Wu: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
Tim Wu
00:48:21
Tim Wu, policy advocate and creator of the phrase "net neutrality," provides a historical examination of how all new media of the 20th century (radio, television, Internet) started out as open resources, but became restricted by industry and government to the detriment of free expression and innovat
It’s Not True? Media Myths and the Stories that Spawned Them
W. Joseph Campbell
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W. Joseph Campbell addresses 10 prominent media myths, such as the claim that Walter Cronkite’s on-air editorializing altered the course of the Vietnam War.
Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter
Tom Bissell
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Journalist and critic (and avid video gamer) Tom Bissell takes a deeper look into video game culture. His new book, Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter takes a serious look at a much-dismissed topic.

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