Join us for a talk by Franco Berardi to celebrate and launch PUBLICs 50th issue: The Retreat.

Berardi will give a talk on 'Dark Zest Geist Dystopia and Self Fulfilling Prophecy: Imagination and the Narration of the Future in Contemporary Literature and Cinema'.

PUBLIC is celebrating its 50th issue in Fall 2014. Called The Retreat, it is the product of a collaboration between dOCUMENTA 13, the Banff Centre, and Banff Research in Culture BRiC. Edited by Sarah Blacker, Imre Szeman and Heather Zwicker, the issues nano media cover by artists Christine Davis and Scott Lyall is a collaboration with the Ciber Lab at Simon Fraser University. Contributors include: Franco Bifo Beradi, Bruno Bosteels, Catherine Malabou, Heather Anderson, Raymond Boisjoly, Joanne Bristol, David Butler, Nico Dockx, Jason Gomez, Emma Waltraud Howes, Alice Jim, Ivan Jurakic and Tor Lukasik-Foss, Kate Lawless, Andrew Pendakis, Carrie Smith-Prei, Franziska Stenglin, and more.

Franco Berardi, aka Bifo, is a writer, media theorist, and media activist. He founded the magazine A/traverso 197581 and was a staff member of Radio Alice, the first free pirate radio station in Italy 197678. Involved in the Autonomia political movement in Italy during the 1970s, he fled to Paris, where he worked with Flix Guattari in the field of schizoanalysis. He has published over two dozen books, including recently After the Future 2011 and The Soul at Work 2010. He has contributed to numerous magazines, such as Semiotexte, Chimres, Metropoli, and Musica 80, and e-flux journal. He is the co-founder of the e-zine rekombinant.org and the telestreet phenomenon. He is currently teaching social history of communication at the Accademia di belle Arti in Milan and is the Coordinator of the European School for Social Imagination SCEPSI. He is a contributor to PUBLIC 50: The Retreat.

Wednesday, November 26, 2014

7 8:30 pm

Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario

AGO Members & PUBLIC Subscribers $12 Public $15 Students $10

Tickets must be purchased through the AGO either online, by phone or in person.

This talk is presented in collaboration with the AGO.