VCUQatar presents:
Bruce Sterling: The Design of Objects that Don’t Exist Yet
Wednesday, November 16 | 6 PM
VCUQatar Atrium, Education City, Doha
As part of the Crossing Boundaries Lecture Series, Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar presents a lecture by American science-fiction author and cyberspace theorist Bruce Sterling entitled ‘The Design of Objects That Don’t Exist Yet’. The lecture will draw on lessons on futuristic thinking and design, and discuss some of the most prominent people who design imaginary objects and services.
| Bruce Sterling, author, journalist, editor, and critic, was born in 1954. Best known for his ten science fiction novels, he also writes short stories, book reviews, design criticism, opinion columns, and introductions for books ranging from Ernst Juenger to Jules Verne.His nonfiction works include THE HACKER CRACKDOWN: LAW AND DISORDER ON THE ELECTRONIC FRONTIER (1992), TOMORROW NOW: ENVISIONING THE NEXT FIFTY YEARS (2003), and SHAPING THINGS (2005).
He is a contributing editor of WIRED magazine and writes a weblog. During 2005, he was the “Visionary in Residence” at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. In 2008 he was the Guest Curator for the Share Festival of Digital Art and Culture in Torino, Italy, and the Visionary in Residence at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam. In 2011 he returned to Art Center as “Visionary in Residence” to run a special project on Augmented Reality. He has appeared in ABC’s Nightline, BBC’s The Late Show, CBC’s Morningside, on MTV and TechTV, and in Time, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Fortune, Nature, I.D., Metropolis, Technology Review, Domus, Der Spiegel, La Repubblica, and many other venues.
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