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 How to Understand Genetic Information - And Why?
URGENT PANEL DISCUSSION
IN RESPONSE TO "PARADISE NOW: PICTURING THE GENETIC REVOLUTION"

Tuesday, October 24, 2000 / 7-9 PM
Center For Advanced Technology
719 Broadway / New York, NY 

LISTEN IN -- RECORDED BROADCAST
(http://www.cat.nyu.edu/invest_now.ram)

This panel includes theorists whose works analyze the social, political and cultural understandings of genetic representations and will elaborate critical approaches. The discussion will focus on what is at stake in these new representations - how and why to understand genetic conceptions of life. 


The panel will include:

Jackie Stevens, Political Scientist,
Pomona College. Author of Reproducing the State (Princeton, 1999)

Michael Fortun, School of Social Science,
Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton.
Co-editor of The Practices of Human Genetics. (Kluwer, 1999) 

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Timothy Druckrey, Author/Editor/Curator,
Author of net_condition: art and global media, Ars Electronica: Facing the Future, Electronic Culture: Technology and Visual Representation

Natalie Jeremijenko, Research Scientist,
NYU's Center for Advanced Technology

Richard Doyle, Professor of Rhetoric and Science Studies, Penn State U.   Author of Beyond Living: Rhetorical Transformations of the Life Sciences (Stanford, 1997).

Invited Respondents

Troy Duster
Author of Backdoor to Eugenics (Routledge, 1990) 

Eugene Thacker
Program in Comparative Literature, Rutgers University,
http://gsa.rutgers.edu/maldoror/

Anne Pasternak
Director of Creative Time

Alan McGown (TBC)
President of Gene Media Forum

Carole Kismaric & Marvin Heiferman (TBC)
EXIT Art, Paradise Now Curators


This panel is not sponsored by the Gene Media Forum. No moneys have been received from the Joy of Giving Something Foundation.