Martijntje Smits
is a philosopher of technology, an engineer, and a scholar in innovation sciences. She works as a researcher and lecturer at various universities and institutes. As a philosopher of technology, she focuses on tech and the future, and her work questions the way technological visions of the future are taken for granted. Smits has written several books about technology and robotics, among them Monsterbezwering, de culturele domesticatie van nieuwe technologie (2002; Taming monsters: the cultural domestication of technology). Recently, she edited and co-authored the essay collection Robot Love, which coincided with the exhibition of the same name in Eindhoven, and later this year will see the release of her book Frankensteins blinde vlek (working title; Frankenstein’s blind spot).
Past events
<strong>More Than a Monster: Reading Frankenstein with Hanna Bervoets & Martijntje Smits </stron
Film: 'Frankenstein' (1931), introduced by Martijntje Smits
The obsessed Dr. Henry Frankenstein is far ahead of his time. He succeeds in bringing dead tissue to life. Screening of the classic 1931 movie adaptation of Mary Shelley's epistolary novel. Introduced by philosopher, engineer and innovation thinker Martijntje Smits.
Man-Machine: And Technology Created the New Human
Hanna Bervoets and Irish writer of bestselling novel To Be a Machine discuss our "trans-human" future.
