Angels, Animals and Cyborgs: Visions of Human Enhancement at the Cornelia Street Cafe
Angels, Animals and Cyborgs: Visions of Human Enhancement at the Cornelia Street Cafe An illustrated lecture by Salvador Olguín ***IN MANHATTAN at The Cornelia Street Cafe as part of the HUMAN+ series*** Date: Sunday, July 22 Time: 6 PM Admission: $10, includes one drink Presented by the Hollow Earth Society, originally presented by Morbid Anatomy [...]
“Hey, Where’s My Robot Girlfriend?” at the Cornelia Street Cafe
We have our second-to-last scheduled Cornelia Street Observatory event coming up this Sunday with the erudite and intriguing Laura G. Duncan: “Hey, Where’s My Robot Girlfriend?” An Exploration of Sexual Robotics, Teledildonics, and Carnal Technology at the Cornelia Street Cafe An illustrated lecture with sexual health researcher, educator, and writer Laura G. Duncan *IN MANHATTAN [...]
Morbid Anatomy Library Benefit – Saturday, June 30
Friends, fans of Observatory, nerd-party people: Lend me your ears. Our good friend Joanna Ebenstein, curator of the Morbid Anatomy Library, has suffered some losses to her wonderfully weird archive due to a fire and flood in our little gallery. To amend the sitch, she’s hosting a big gala benefit on June 30. Presently appear [...]
Proteus Gowanus annual benefit: NOMAD MIXER
The annual Proteus Gowanus benefit is coming up soon. Buy a ticket! Deetz: Nomad Mixer Saturday, June 2, 7–10 PM As our Migration year draws to a close we invite you to celebrate the things we’ve seen, how far we’ve come and where we’re going next. Image by Atty Gell A Party to Benefit Proteus Gowanus! [...]
Kip Rosser at Cornelia Street Observatory, next Wednesday night!
At 6 PM next Wednesday, May 30, we’re exciting to once again host thereminist/performer/all-around amazing human Kip Rosser on behalf of Observatory, this time at our monthly Manhattan event (details here). Check out Kip’s music: In 1919, Lev Sergeivitch Termen, known throughout the world as Leon Theremin, invented the first synthesizer. Originally dubbed the Aetherphone, [...]
Organism for Poetic Research/Pelt event at Observatory this Friday!
The future of poetry, philosophy, publishing, and collaboration come together in DIY para-academic groups such as the Organism for Poetic Research/Pelt. I have only found out about these dedicated word-scientists recently, and I’m proud to be hosting them at Observatory on Friday. If you have any interest in the intersection of poetry, philosophy, and political [...]
Post-Space
BAM—here’s some teaser copy for our documentary on how the virtualization of different archives and learning experiences is affecting the library/museum/university, courtesy Atlas Obscura founder Dylan Thuras: The collapsing of the the virtual and the real into one “space” I would argue that virtual space has never been less “real” than space-space, only different. The [...]
The Congress For Curious Peoples 2012
Our friends Joanna Ebenstein and Aaron Beebe are yet again producing a faboulous Congress For Curious Peoples, April 13-22 at Coney Island USA. Here are all the details: Presented by Morbid Anatomy Library and Coney Island USA, the 2012 Congress of Curious Peoples is a 10-day series of lectures, performances, and a 2-day symposium devoted to [...]
Panel Discussion on Para-Academic Publishing & Book Party
Date: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 Time: 7:00 PM Admission: FREE Presented by: the Hollow Earth Society, The Public School New York, and punctum books The term “para-academic” captures the multivalent sense of something that fulfills and/or frustrates the academic from a position of intimate exteriority. Para-academia is that which is beside academia, a place whose [...]
Post-Space
Post-Space Conference at the Elsewhere Collaborative Virtual Para-Academic Conference on the Future of the Physical presented by the Hollow Earth Society, Kamomi Solidum, and Elsewhere GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA What is the future of the museum, the library, the university? All these spaces are changing rapidly thanks to the technologies of tele—of distance. With Kamomi Solidum [...]
The Pathological Sublime & Anatomical Unconscious With Mark Dery
Part 3 of Cornelia Street Observatory: BODY AS FUNHOUSE MIRROR Celebrating the publication of his essay collection, I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts: Drive-By Essays on American Dread, American Dreams cultural critic and cult author Mark Dery will lecture—with unforgettable slides—on the hallucinatory Crypt of the Capuchin monks in Rome, the uncanny wax mannequins at La Specola in [...]
Parasites: A User’s Guide at Cornelia Street Cafe
So excited to host our second talk at Cornelia Street Cafe: A Short Film Screening with Filmmaker and Ecologist Sharon Shattuck At The Cornelia Street Cafe as part of the BODY AS FUNHOUSE MIRROR series Sunday, February 26 • 6 PM • $10 (includes a drink!) Presented by Hollow Earth Society and Ted Enik Originally presented by Morbid Anatomy Parasites challenges [...]
Observatory’s Lunar-Themed 3rd Anniversary Fundraiser Party
Come celebrate with us, and help support your favorite interdisciplinarian art, science, & occult event space. Saturday, February 18th • 8pm Admission: $20 Check out our art show, Lunation: Art on the Moon, and then trip out to a Moon Phantasmagoria show by VJ Fuzzy Bastard. We’ll also be screening episodes from the Midnight Archive, a show [...]
