TALKS AND EXHIBITS
Julie
Julie Wosk, Curator, "Imaging Women in the Space Age" New York Hall of Science, Queens, New York, July 13 - March 29, 2020 and March-May, 2024. It will also be at the Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA from June-September, 2024. Exhibit includes images of female astronauts, space-age fashions, films, and androids in vintage sci-fi television shows. This exhibit is available for travel. Contact the curator, jwosk@sunymaritime.edu
Julie Wosk's many presentations include "Perfect Woman': Female Robots, Alluring Androids, and Electronic Eves"at Harvard University, talks on her books and researchg at the New York Public Library and the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Design, and her forthcoming talk based on her new book Artificial Women at the annual meeting, Society for the History of Technology and International Committee for the History of Technology, Chile, 2024 .
PICTURING FEMALE ROBOTS AND ANDROIDS
Museum exhibit of images at the New York Hall of Science, Queens, New York, April 22-October 22, 2017. http://nysci.org/event/picturing-female-robots-and-androids/
View images of female robots, mannequins and dolls in films, television, video games and more. Robots, androids, mannequins and dolls reflect our age-old efforts to create artificial beings that look amazingly lifelike. They also reveal to us our changing views of women. This exhibit, curated by Julie Wosk, is based on her recent book MY FAIR LADIES: Female Robots, Androids, and Other Artificial Eves.
JULIE WOSK'S INTERVIEW ON NEW YORK TELEVISION qptv.org/content/qptv-presents-around-queens-luchia-dragosh-picturing-female-robots-and-androids
Huffington Post story http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/museum-features-pictures-of-female-robots-and-androids_us_58fb4c02e4b086ce58981168
Ms. Magazine blog by Julie Wosk http://msmagazine.com/blog/2017/08/30/picturing-female-robots-androids/