[-empyre-] Podcasts and Culture Labs: Westworld

[Margaret J Rhee]

Hi All,

To start us off, I'd love to discuss the larger points Betsy and 
Lawrence brought up in terms of Westworld and authorship, more 
significantly Charles Yu's contribution to the show, as a writer and 
story editor, and how that may shape our conversation. It reminded me of 
how Sarah and I discussed actor Leonardo Nam's role in the television 
show, while he is not a robot, the show has much more racial diversity 
than other (fembot/replicant) television or films, particularly with 
Black leading characters, and Asian leading characters. Im also 
wondering how much Yu's presence is within the storyline, and it is 
interesting that Betsy and Lawrence co-curated the CLT+ALT: A Culture 
Lab on Imagined Futures, that also included Charles Yu's work: 
http://smithsonianapa.org/alt/

Sarah, as an artist, journalist, and a curator of feminist space, also 
facilitates discussions and creative visions through media activism, and 
her own comics on Oregon history: 
https://shop.knowyourcity.org/products/oregon-history-comics-box-set

Her podcast with Bitch Magazine, Propaganda, is one exciting example, 
like the Culture Lab.

I guess I'm wondering if we can begin with Why Westworld? and how might 
it connect to  the culture labs you've curated for the Smithsonian, and 
for Sarah, the podcast conversations for Bitch magazine?

Is there any connection between our interests in the show, and what I 
see, and admire so much about your respective work, on how you also 
commit to cthe curation of dialogue?

Margaret


-- 
Margaret Rhee, Ph.D.

Visiting Assistant Professor
Women's and Gender Studies
University of Oregon

-- 
Margaret Rhee, Ph.D.

Visiting Assistant Professor
Women's and Gender Studies
University of Oregon