Digital Shock & iGeneration
Hart House, Reading Room (7 Hart House Circle)
Hervé Fischer, author of Digital Shock, exposes the relationships between human beings and digital technology and examines our response to the myths and promises of the digital revolution.
Like TiVos and Game Boys, iPods have rapidly gained popularity, but is an entire generation shutting itself off from the rest of the world? In his latest book, iGeneration, Jason Logan has created a series of poignant illustrations and captions chronicling his observations of this revolutionary culture.
Hervé Fischer, a multi-media artist and philosopher, is the author of numerous critically acclaimed books, including The Hyper Planet, The Decline of the Hollywood Empire, and Couleurs et sociétés. He was awarded the first Leonardo Makepeace Tsao Award by the International Society for the Arts, Science and Technology (MIT Press). He is an associate professor at the Centre interuniversitaire des arts médiatiques (CIAM), Université de Québec à Montréal, and a researcher-artist at the Hexagram Québec Media Lab.
Jason Logan is a freelance illustrator who has done work for The New York Times and Maclean’s. He is the author and illustrator of If We Ever Break Up, This Is My Book.
