SUNDAY
08 JULY ANDREA CULLEN, JAMIE BARTLETT
HUGH WELCHMAN, SYLVIA MCLAIN
Small Hall, Richmond Building, University of Bradford
The Light Cinema
10.30am (75mins) £7
10.30am (75mins) £7
The Digital Dystopia
Touched With Fire: Genius or Madness?
The internet has undeniably changed the world, with businesses, communities, and individuals becoming increasingly reliant on its constantly improving capabilities. But behind Facebook, Google, and our other favourite sites is a dark digital universe, controlled by Silicon Valley utopians, advertising overlords, and venture capitalists who hold a vast amount of information about our lives.
“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.” – Aristotle.
In light of recent data breach scandals at companies like Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, Jamie Bartlett, author of The People vs Tech: How the internet is killing democracy (and how we can save it), and cyber security expert Andrea Cullen come together to discuss the real impact the digital world has on democracy.
Using the celebrated work of Vincent van Gogh as a key example, this event will explore the fine lines between the mental states and ask whether you need to have been touched with fire to change the world. Join us to find out whether Aristotle’s 2,000-year-old sentiment still rings true today.
Andrea Cullen
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Jamie Bartlett
The world of art and artists is full of the great human idiosyncrasies of genius and madness. At this event, Sylvia McLain, Judith Gould, and Hugh Welchman join us as we ask the question about those very concepts: do you need to be mad to be a genius, or a genius to be mad?
Hugh Welchman
Sylvia McLain