Technologies of Magic: Ghosts and Their Machines

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Event Technologies of Magic: Ghosts and Their Machines
Venue Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW
First Date 18 July 2001
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional
World Premiere No
Description Technologies of Magic was an inter-disciplinary event focusing on the relation between technology and mysticism. Its scope spans nineteenth century spiritualism to contemporary cyber-mystericism, technologies from photography and the internet, indigenous and traditional knowledges to techno-paganism.
Description Source Programme
Primary Genre Other
Secondary Genre Forum
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Simon During Speaker Magic Powers: Stage Effects in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Robyn Ferrell Speaker
Annette Hamilton Speaker The Uncanny in Object Relations, or, the Life in the Machine
Rachel Moore Speaker Love Machines
Stephen Muecke Speaker Contingency in Madagascar
John Potts Speaker The Idea of the Ghost
Edward Scheer Speaker On Electronic Emotion: Stelarc and the Magic of the Movatar
Ross Harley Video Ghosts: Living Dead in Sydney.
Nigel Helyer Virtual Voices: Ghost Riders in the Sky
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Performance Space Database
Event Identifier 141626
Dataset AusStage