COLUMBIA ART & TECHNOLOGY LECTURES

Manuel DeLanda
Thursday, April 8, 2004, 6pm
LeRoy Neiman Gallery, 310 Dodge Hall
Columbia University, New York, NY

Free and open to the public

Manuel DeLanda was born in 1952 in Mexico City and has lived in Manhattan since 1975. He began his career in the mid-seventies as an independent filmmaker, showing his films in cine-clubs and museums around the world. In 1980 he acquired an industrial-grade computer and became a programmer and computer artist, writing his own software for several years. His philosophical essays have appeared in many journals and he currently lectures extensively in the United States and Europe on nonlinear dynamics, theories of self-organization, Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Life. He is author of the books War in the Age of Intelligent Machines, A Thousand years of Nonlinear History and Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy. He has contributed to numerous collections, including A Thousand Plateaus by G. Deleuze and F. Guattari, and Ecological Imperialism by Alfred Crosby and Self-Organizing Systems, edited by Eugene Yates.

The Art & Technology Lectures will culminate with Ricardo Dominguez, a tactical media artist, on May 12.

For more information, see http://www.columbia.edu/cu/arts/dmc/docs/lectureseries.html
Or email art-tech-lecture@music.columbia.edu

Co-presented by the Digital Media Center and Computer Music Center at Columbia University