The
Stephen B. Luce Library and the Humanities Department
welcome
Dr. Julie Wosk
November
12, 2015 @1500 in the library.
Dr. Julie Wosk is Professor of
English, Art History, and Studio Painting in the Department of Humanities
at SUNY Maritime College. She has published four books on art,
design, and technology, including her most recent book My Fair Ladies:
Female Robots, Androids, and Other Artificial Eves (Rutgers
University Press, July 2015).
Dr. Wosk has lectured all over the world. One of her
lectures, “Alluring Androids and Robots”, was taped by PBS television Channel
Thirteen in New York as part of their “Best Lectures in NY”. She has
also been interviewed on NPR radio, and her recent book was featured in
London’s newspaper, The Guardian.
A chance encounter in a 26th Street flea market in NYC has been
the inspiration for Dr. Wosk’s work. She had noticed a mannequin’s head
peering out of a paper bag. It was coy and a little eerie--and it reminded her
of Freud's essay on "The Uncanny" where it is sometimes
difficult to tell if something is inanimate or alive. That began her path
of photographing mannequins, masks and puppets. Her fascination with this
subject was the inspiration for new book My Fair Ladies.
Please
join us on November 12, 2015 @ 1500 where Dr. Wosk will share her new
book featuring female robots, mannequins, and dolls in movies,
television, literature, art, photography and real-life robots that being
made in engineering labs today.
