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BOOKS AND EXHIBIT BY JULIE WOSK

 
Julie Wosk's books  on the cultural impact of technology  and her museum  exhibit  "Imaging Women in the Space Age"  
 
Author of  WOMEN AND THE MACHINE: Representations From the Spinnng Wheel to the Electroic Age; MY FAIR LADIES: Female Robots, Androids, and Other Artificial Eves;  ARTIFICIAL WOMEN:  Sex Dolls, Robot Caregivers, and More Facsimile Females;  and BREAKING FRAME: Technology and the Visual Arts in the Nineteenth Century.

TALKS AND EXHIBITS

Julie

Julie Wosk spoke on  "Artifiical Eves: Simulated Females in Films, Robotics, Literature, and Art"  at the Rochester Institute of Technology,  February 27, 2-3:30 pm,  Liberal Arts Hall.

 

Julie Wosk, Curator,  "Imaging Women in the Space Age. "  The exhibit is on view at the  New York Hall of Science,   Queens, New York, December 2024-2025 and is available for travel.   For more information, contact  the curator,  jwosk@sunymaritime.edu   For her interview about the exhibit on WNYC   March 22, 2025 see  https://www.wnyc.org/story/the-new-york-hall-of-science-showcases-women-in-the-space-age/

Julie Wosk's  many presentations include "Perfect Woman': Female Robots, Alluring Androids, and Electronic Eves"at  Harvard University,  talks on her books and research at  Princeton University,  Columbia Universy, the New York Public Library,  the  Smithsonian  National Musuem of American History,  and the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Design.  She spoke about her book at the Berkshire Atheneum on June 26, 2024  and at the annual meetings of the   Society for the History of Technology and the International Committee for the History of Technology,  Vina del Mar,  Chile, July 2024. She also spoke about  "Gllded Age Automatons to Today's Talking Dolls" at Ventfort Hall,  Lenox, MA on  August 8, 2024.   To request a future talk,  contact the author at  jwosk@sunymaritime.edu

Julie Wosk, My Fair Ladies: Female Robots, Androids, and Other Artificial Eves (Rutgers University Press)

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/

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  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/


Talk on "Designing Machines With Women in Mind" at the annual meeting of the College Art Association, February 15-18, 2017, New York City.

Hear Julie Wosk being interviewed about her book on female robots on the NPR show "51%" broadcast December 17, 2015

http://www.npr.org/podcasts/381444155/51-percent%20%20%20=%29

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