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December 6th, 2025 |
Thanks, everyone, for making this year's event quite successful!
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Olga Ast
SkeptiCamp NYC Profile
| Biography: |
I’m an interdisciplinary artist, curator and independent scholar. One of my main goals is to investigate connections between time, space and information. I have exhibited and lectured in the U.S. and abroad, presenting my work at art-science projects, including art shows and multidisciplinary conferences at Rutgers, New York, Gottingen, Moscow, Toronto and other universities; the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; the National Academy of Sciences; the Museum of Natural Sciences of Turin; the Bridges Math Art exhibit and the International Conferences on Time Perspectives.
My books include Fleeing from Absence: four cross-disciplinary essays on time, its nature and its interpretations; and Infinite Instances: Studies & Images of Time, a collection of papers and artworks by contributors to the ArcheTime project, which I have been curating since 2009. |
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New York |
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| Proposed Session Title: |
Between Worlds: Lived Observations Across Contrasting Social Systems |
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| Session Description: |
I will be presenting the results of a life-long observational study existing under two contrasting social systems: Soviet socialism in the first part of my life and American capitalism in the second.
Across history, human civilization has conducted a number of social experiments with varying results. Now, in the age of technological advancements and AI algorithmic governance, we are still trying to understand the direction in which our society is moving -- especially in the wake of last year’s presidential election and the recent NYC mayoral race.
I’m going to describe my own on-the-ground experience -- not from the position of a judge or apologist, but as a neutral witness focusing on practical terms.
My central question is: What are the causes, differences, and similarities when societies go through crises and instability?
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| Previous SkeptiCamp NYC Events: |
2024, 2023, 2021, 2020, 2019 |