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Marco Brambilla will present ‘After Utopia’ in conversation with Professor Peter Boxall, Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature, Oxford University. https://www.schwarzmancentre.ox.ac.uk/whats-on/marco-brambilla-in-conversation-tykc £10 standard / £5 student The event is followed by a free screening of Frozen Atlantis in the Schwarzman cinema (7-9pm). Book your free place for the film screening: https://www.schwarzmancentre.ox.ac.uk/whats-on/frozen-atlantis-typc Marco Brambilla is a leading figure in contemporary video art, internationally recognized for his pioneering use of digital imaging technologies and immersive moving image installations. He is best known for his work which re-contextualizes archival imagery into visually elaborate, often satirical spectacles that explore the excesses of contemporary culture. After Utopia, on display at the Schwarzman Centre until 31 December, reimagines more than a century of World’s Fairs — from the Eiffel Tower in Paris in 1889 to Expo 2025 in Osaka — transforming their most iconic architectures into a vast, algorithmically generated vision of a future that never quite arrived. https://www.schwarzmancentre.ox.ac.uk/whats-on/marco-brambilla-after-utopia-1l5r

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