Roberta Buiani

Roberta Buiani's life is divided between teaching, research and cultural activism. her activity is located at the crossroad between science, technology and the arts. she teaches in the program in "Science and Society" at York University (Toronto, Canada) and she is associate researcher in the Infoscape Lab at the Ryerson Polytechnic, a lab specialized in mapping and visualization of online news and cultural phenomena. She is interested in how Western popular culture has assimilated, manipulated and transformed, sometimes inadvertently, concepts and notions originating from the sciences and exemplified through technology, accomplice the theory of information, the research in genetics and the militaristic politics since the cold war.

"the mediation of the representation, especially through the most recent technologies of investigation, representation and simulation, shows a double articulation. on the one hand, representation enlightens the world, either by trying to penetrate it for its needs and circumstances, or to reach a synthesis, turning the real into new forms, perspectives and interpretations. On the other hand, it has the power to deviate culture, by putting forward its hypothetical transparence, scientificity, neutrality, and truthfulness. This double statute, cognitive and political likewise, ends up holding in a fairly fragile way--more evidently today than in the past--the universe of the symbolic." (Pier Luigi Capucci)

Map this!
(2006)
Multimedia Workshop