Turning the Scales: Living Between Small and Large

Paul Virilio warned in 1997 of the ‘pollution of the life-size’ which was occurring as a result of technologies which ‘reduced to nothing earth’s scale and size’. Unlike other entities which are limited to existence on or at specific scales, humans have developed the capacity not only to imagine life at sub-atomic or cosmic scales, but increasingly to intervene in them directly, whether through nano-engineering, human modifications of climate or cosmological observations. Do our new kinds of expanded existence enhance, or threaten human flourishing? Does the idea of a ‘human scale’ still have meaning?

Join the Digital Futures Institute as we welcome a panel of artists and researchers featured in the Seeking Connection: Living Well with Technology exhibition to explore the Gulliver complex of the movement between macroscopic and microscopic scales, made available by new forms of technological attention.

4pm Welcome
4.15pm Conversation and Q&A
6pm Ends

Speakers include:
Dr Teppei Katori
Dr Jonathan Gray
Dr Maud Borie
Dr Emily Barritt
Elliott Hall
Zoe Partington

This event is a special edition of the Digital Futures Institute’s regular seminar series, in collaboration with King’s Culture. Attendees are invited to visit the exhibition beforehand.

Booking information

This seminar is free and open to all. Please register here. If you book a ticket but find you are unable to come to the event, please kindly cancel your booking.

This event is wheelchair accessible. This event may be filmed and photographed, by attending you consent to appearing in any footage or stills of the event. To inform the organiser of any access requirements, please email digitalfutures@kcl.ac.uk.