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Venue: Spurlock Museum

Address: 600 S. Gregory St. , Urbana

Venue Details: For more information: http://www.illigal.uiuc.edu/web/etsi

Cost: Free

posted 5:21 pm Sep 29
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Although everyone benefits from the products of engineering, creativity and productivity, engineering and technology are seldom studied by scholars as human activities. In this film series, each story shows the human dramas of the modern technologies that surround us.

The film The Tailenders is filmed in the Solomon Islands, Mexico, India, and the US. THis film chronicles a missionary organization's development of ultra-low-tech audio technologies (like a cardboard record player) to evangelize to traditional communities with limited access to electricity and media. Interspersing interviews with shots of nodal patterns, waveforms and a signal generator, the film 'has presented disembodied audio as a religion unto itself' (The New York Times) ."

The running time is 72 minutes with a discussion to follow.