"Speculations" at MoMA PS1, video and upcoming sessions

Fifty speculations on the future by John Miller, David Rieff, Rivka Galchen, and others

José León Cerrillo, A place occupied by zero (Biloxi Blue), A place occupied by zero (New Wave), A place occupied by zero (Coral Springs), 2013. Commissioned by Triple Canopy to house the EXPO School, which is part of EXPO 1: New York, at MoMA PS1. Courtesy of the artist.

Speculations (âThe future is ______â)
Fifty speculations on the future, as part of EXPO 1: New York
MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, NY
May 12 to July 28, 2013

Speculations continues with lectures, discussions, and debates about the future, as part of EXPO 1: New York at MoMA PS1. All sessions are open to the public and will be Livestreamed and archived. Follow @Triple_Canopy and @MoMAPS1 for updates.

Schedule for week two, May 23–27:

Thursday, May 23, 2 p.m seminar & 4 p.m. lecture
John Miller is an artist and writer based in New York and Berlin, and a professor of professional practice at Barnard. At 2:00 p.m. he will discuss Vilem Flusserâs Toward a Philosophy of Photography and describe the impact of cybernetic information technologies on future social structure. At 4:00 p.m. he will speculate about environmental concerns as they relate to entropy, technology, systems theory, networks, conceptual art, sci-fi, and immortality.

Friday, May 24, 2 p.m seminar & 4 p.m. lecture
Adam Cohen is a professor in the Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Physics at Harvard. His research focuses on controlling light-matter interactions in warm, wet, squishy environments. At 2 p.m. he will discuss writings by Francis Crick and H. G. Wells on DNA and the mutability of life-forms. At 4 p.m. he will speculate about the future of stem cells and the brain.

Saturday, May 25, 3 p.m.
Journalist David Rieff, author of books on immigration, international conflict, and humanitarianism, will detail the proposed solutions to the world food crisis, and the serious difficulties with each. Tickets are available for this session.

Sunday, May 26, 3 p.m.
Rivka Galchenâs first novel, Atmospheric Disturbances, was awarded the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. Norman Rush is the author of three novels, including Mating, which won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1991. They will discuss commonalities between literature, OCD, fortunetelling, lucid dreaming, and weather reports. Tickets are available for this session.

Monday, May 27, 2 p.m seminar & 4 p.m. lecture
Marie Lorenz is an artist whose project The Tide and Current Taxi ferries passengers through the waterways of New York. At 2 p.m. she will discuss the alien “Zone” in the Russian sci-fi film Stalker and novel Roadside Picnic. At 4 p.m. she will describe how to experience the future in the trash of the present.

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