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Presented in partnership with RMIT Culture, RMIT Enabling Impact Platforms, College of Design and Social Context, College of Business and Law and the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies.

Social Sciences After Dark: Disturbing Technology

When
Thurs 7 Sep
Doors open: 6pm
Event starts:6.30pm
Where
The Theatre

Explore humanity’s deepest anxieties through a horror double bill: M3GAN (2022) and VIDEODROME (1983).

RMIT Culture co-presents Social Sciences After Dark: Disturbing Technology, which explores humanity’s deepest anxieties through a horror double bill. Hosted by Jessica Balanzategui (Media, RMIT), this event is the first in the Social Sciences After Dark series, a celebration of the power of film as a window on human society.

First, a story by RMIT alum James Wan: in M3GAN (2022) we meet a grief-stricken girl and the remarkably disturbing doll who becomes her friend. Next, we mark the 40th anniversary of David Cronenberg’s classic VIDEODROME (1983), where the disturbing technology is the television signal.

Between films engage in a rousing discussion about our deepest fears of technological change, and the implications for society with a panel of diverse social scientists featuring; Jordy Kaufman (Psychology, Swinburne University of Technology), Alexia Kannas (Cinema and Media, RMIT University) and Jacinthe Flore (Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne).

Social Sciences After Dark is a highlight of RMIT’s events marking national Social Sciences Week, convened by the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. Supported by the RMIT Enabling Impact Platforms, College of Design and Social Context, College of Business and Law, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, and RMIT Culture.

MOVIE TIMES

6:30PM M3GAN

9:00PM VIDEODROME