Eugene Thacker

Art Paper Reviewer:

• SIGGRAPH 2001: n-space

Writings and Presentations:

• Title: The SF of Technoscience: The Politics of Simulation & A Challenge for New Media Art
  Writing Type: Paper
  Author(s):
  • Eugene Thacker
  
  Exhibition: SIGGRAPH 2000: Art Gallery
  Abstract Summary:

  “In fact, science fiction … is no longer anywhere, and it is everywhere, in the circulation of models, here and now, in the very principle of the surrounding simulation.”
  — JEAN BAUDRILLARD

  “Biology is becoming an information science … and it will take increasingly powerful computers and software to gather, store, analyze, model and distribute that information.”
  — BEN ROSEN
  Chairman, Compaq Computer Corporation

  “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
  — RICHARD FEYNMAN

  One of the significant characteristics of the last decade, and the new millennium, is the way in which advancements in biotechnology and medicine have come to the attention of the public, through the media, as one of the primary areas in which the future is being vigorously imagined. What distinguishes biotechnology from other sciences is the way in which it is increasingly fusing genetic code with computer code, encapsulated in what Incyte Pharmaceuticals calls “point-and-click biology.”

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  Role(s):

  
  
  • Art Jury Member
  • Art Paper Reviewer