Eindhoven, April 28 – 30, 2017, http://thinkeconomia.com An interesting festival that was. I have noticed that there has been an exhibition on the topic on art addressing economic topics at Onomatopee art space (also in Eindhoven) last year, and I wondered, it there has been any cross-inspiration between this two organizations… The Economia festival dealt…
Vienna, April 25, 2017, http://depot.or.at/ Based on the title of the lecture, I was expecting something along the lines of science and technology studies or media archeology. Yet it proved to be much more complicated.
(11/13/2013) An event of a different kind, beyond art and minimal art more so, but still of interest, at least for me. Prof. Scholes was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for the Black-Scholes option pricing model (a mathematical model of the financial market containing derivative instruments). The lecture at CityU was directed towards a…
(11/12/2013) Prof. Hale’s (The University of Nottingham) guest lecture started off with a clearly dualist view of ‘transparent’ vs. ‘opaque’ technology, pitting against each other the ‘good old world’ and the ‘brave new world’: Handheld mechanical tools that provide ‘direct feedback’ vs. electric tools that provide an ‘experience of the machine’ instead of an experience…