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A Reading & Discussion with author Xiaowei Wang, National Book Foundation Honoree 2023, in conversation with Joe Fassler
April 12 @ 7:00 pm MDT
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The Department of Humanities and Cultural Studies and the National Book Foundation presents: A Reading & Discussion with author Xiaowei Wang, National Book Foundation Honoree 2023, in conversation with Joe Fassler. The presentation will be both in-person and live streamed via Zoom.
Date: April 12, 2023
Time: 7:00 pm Mountain Standard Time
Location: Boise State University Student Union Building, Simplot Ballroom A/D
Free books to the first 100 attendees! Xiaowei Wang’s Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China’s Countryside (2023 Science + Literature Selected Title) expertly examines the quickly changing landscape of technology, and the people engaging with it as user, creator, and controller. Join Wang for a conversation on their debut essay collection, and if and how freedom can be found through technology. Presented in partnership with Boise State University’s Global Humanities and Cultural Studies program. Xiaowei Wang is a technologist, a filmmaker, an artist, and a writer. The creative director at Logic magazine, their work encompasses community based and public art projects, data visualization, technology, ecology, and education. Their projects have been finalists for the INDEX Design Awards and featured by the New York Times, the BBC, CNN, VICE, and elsewhere. They are working toward a PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, where they are a part of the National Science Foundation Research Traineeship, “Environment and Society: Data Science for the 21st Century.”