Stanley Kubrick, Futurist

Jewseum

A discussion of the visionary film-making of Stanley Kubrick and his prescient observations about man and technology, with Fernando Castrillón, Psy.D., Dr Rodney Hill (The Stanley Kubrick Archives), Chris Noessel (Make It So: Interaction Design Lessons from Science Fiction), and artist Binta Ayofemi. Presented in conjunction with Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition. Fernando Castrillon, Psy.D., presented "Digital Teleologies, Imperial Threshold Machinic Assemblages and the Colonization of the Cosmos: A Post-Structuralist Interpretation of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey" at Multiversy. Dr. Castrillon is a licensed clinical psychologist and associate professor in the Community Mental Health Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) and is the founding director of CIIS’ The Clinic Without Walls. Dr. Castrillon is also a candidate psychoanalyst and is on the editorial board of The European Journal of Psychoanalysis. His publications include a special double issue of ReVision, entitled “Ecopsychology"; an edited volume: Ecopsychology, Phenomenology, and the Environment: The Experience of Nature (Springer Press); Translating Angst: Symptoms and Inhibitions in Anglo-American Psychoanalysis and Feminine Pathologies. He is currently writing a book on psychoanalysis in California. Dr. Castrillon maintains a private psychoanalytic practice in the East Bay. Rodney F. Hill is co-author of The Encyclopedia of Stanley Kubrick and a contributor to several other books, including The Stanley Kubrick Archives (now in its third edition from Taschen) and The Essential Science-Fiction Television Reader. Hill is Assistant Professor of Film in the Lawrence Herbert School of Communication at Hofstra University, holds a PhD from the University of Kansas and an MA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His essays have appeared in Film Quarterly, Cinema Journal, Literature/Film Quarterly, and elsewhere. Chris Noessel is the author of Make It So: Interaction Design Lessons From Science Fiction. Noessel has developed interactive kiosks and spaces for museums, helped to visualize the future of counter-terrorism, built prototypes of coming technologies for Microsoft, and designed telehealth devices to accommodate modern healthcare. He is currently writing a book about the role of UX in narrow artificial intelligence. Binta Ayofemi is an artist and has presented her work at the Kadist Art Foundation, SFMOMA, Southern Exposure, The Carpenter Center, The Wattis Institute, the Asian Art Museum, The New Museum, and Chicago's Rebuild Foundation. Ayofemi's series Software, a rehearsal of utopian forms, from the Shakers to Soul Train, was initially featured in The Possible exhibition at the Berkeley Art Museum. Upcoming works include a series of urban gardens and tactile landscapes across adjacent lots in Oakland and Chicago, a Black Panther Garden, an urban kitchen, a Black Shaker farm and guild, and a general store. Ayofemi was a Stanford MFA in Art and a Harvard Design Fellow in architecture and urban landscape.