via Tulane University
Toby Miller, a social scientist and author, will speak at Tulane tonight about uses for electronic waste.
Miller’s talk will center around electronic waste, the idea of electronic waste art and how it reflects concern for the environment and a need to restructure our traditional forms of work.
“From fine art to reality TV, our culture hinges upon diminished job security and unsustainable energy use,” according to an announcement for the the lecture. “Electronic-waste artists operate in a sector that relies on cheap, casual labor, and exemplifies wider work trends; at the same time, their art incarnates a vanguard ecological awareness. Their struggle to be carbonneutral and economically robust can encourage us to rethink work, from universities to newspapers, from internships to telecommunications.”
The lecture will be held at 6 p.m. tonight (Monday, March 16) in the Qatar Ballroom in the Lavin Bernick Center on Tulane’s Uptown campus. The event is free and open to the public, with a reception to follow.
