John Huntington from Entertainment Tech shared this provocative article that he wrote for Theater Design & Technology (2002):

Rethinking Entertainment Technology Education

Interesting book review in the NYT relevant to several of our topics:

Happy City: Transforming our Lives through Urban Design

Two unsettling, not-quite dystopian takes on technological intervention, interconnectivity, place, and people, “Primer” and “Upstream Color” are both worth a watch. Writer, director, actor, and composer Shane Carruth builds compelling universes with aural and visual landscapes so convoluted that they are best explained with maps or stick puppets.

The filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky came to mind at the last meeting. “Solaris” is a strange psychological journey through space and “Stalker” has a distinctly dystopian, post-apocalyptic feel.  Both films examine the metaphysical layers beneath science, technology, junk, waste, etc.   We may want to check one of these out as a group or individually.

Chris