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Meme Machines | Siri Hustvedt, Ellen K. Levy | An Artist Dialogue Series Event

Image: Thomas Hawk/Flickr

That libraries can mirror the mind and its idiosyncrasies of thought is an old idea. Novelist Siri Hustvedt and multi-media artist and scholar Ellen K. Levy discuss the complex interplay between books, ideas, and emotions on the occasion of Levy’s exhibition, Meme Machines, created specifically for the Art Wall on Third Exhibition Series at Mid-Manhattan Library.

They explore how particular libraries and collections can capture their ephemeral ghosts, reconnect us with basic fears and hopes, and represent the collective memory. While doing so, they raise questions about writing, art-making, and their contingencies. Hustvedt asks: “Why one story and not another?” while Levy asks “What makes a form feel right?” Attempting to avoid habits of mind, the conversation encompasses art’s shifting boundaries between the inner self and outer environment and between the animate and inanimate as information assumes physical and emotional dimensions. Both look at culture and its transmission through multiple lenses, particularly neuroscience.











When: Wed., May. 10, 2017 at 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Where: New York Public Library—Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library
476 Fifth Ave. (42nd St. Entrance)
212-340-0863
Price: Free
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Image: Thomas Hawk/Flickr

That libraries can mirror the mind and its idiosyncrasies of thought is an old idea. Novelist Siri Hustvedt and multi-media artist and scholar Ellen K. Levy discuss the complex interplay between books, ideas, and emotions on the occasion of Levy’s exhibition, Meme Machines, created specifically for the Art Wall on Third Exhibition Series at Mid-Manhattan Library.

They explore how particular libraries and collections can capture their ephemeral ghosts, reconnect us with basic fears and hopes, and represent the collective memory. While doing so, they raise questions about writing, art-making, and their contingencies. Hustvedt asks: “Why one story and not another?” while Levy asks “What makes a form feel right?” Attempting to avoid habits of mind, the conversation encompasses art’s shifting boundaries between the inner self and outer environment and between the animate and inanimate as information assumes physical and emotional dimensions. Both look at culture and its transmission through multiple lenses, particularly neuroscience.

Buy tickets/get more info now