DECONversation

http://wearcam.org/deconism
August,13, 2003 the day of the big black out over north America…
Pierre Levy, Maurice Benayoun and Steve Mann in a bath tub, moderated by Derrick de Kerckhove

Press release: “DECONISM Gallery (Toronto), presents an evening’s dialogue between Maurice Benayoun, an internationally recognized interactive virtual reality artist and public intellectual in the area of new media and technology, and Professor Steve Mann, the acclaimed inventor of the wearable computer and the world’s first photographic cyborg. The evening of discussion will be moderated by Professor Derrick de Kerckhove, Director of the Marshall McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology. Benayoun and Mann have both probed the nature of the reality through technological mediation. The dialogue will be a probe into a future of awareness, the nature of consciousness reacting to technological extensions, and the ensuing effects upon individuals, culture, and society.”

DECONversation
Performance, dialogue