Above: Modified image clip from A Comforting Thought by Donna Golden
Saturday Fantasy Q+A is our ongoing post series that probes the thoughts and insights of individuals participating in sci-fi, fantasy and horror genres.
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Donna Golden is a digital media artist and filmmaker. She creates processed, collaged, remixed, animated videos exploring our relationships to history, memory, language, and power. Before coming to Los Angeles to study experimental animation, she worked as an editor in New York and participated in art/activist collectives creating multimedia projects exhibited at festivals and museums in the US and abroad. Her videos have been shown at the Black Maria Film & Video Festival, the Museum of Modern Art’s Documentary Fortnight series, and the Atlanta Underground Film Festival. She holds a BA in US History from Columbia University and is a (soon-to-be!) MFA grad in Experimental Animation from California Institute of the Arts.
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Saturday Fantasy Q+A is our ongoing post series that probes the thoughts and insights of individuals participating in sci-fi, fantasy and horror genres.
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David Brin is a scientist, speaker, technical consultant and world-known author. His novels have been New York Times Bestsellers, winning multiple Hugo, Nebula and other awards. His 1989 ecological thriller, Earth, foreshadowed global warming, cyberwarfare and near-future trends such as the World Wide Web. His non-fiction book — The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Freedom and Privacy? — deals with secrecy in the modern world, and has won the Freedom of Speech Prize from the American Library Association. His science fictional Uplift Universe explores a future when humans genetically engineer higher animals like dolphins to become equal members of our civilization.
As a speaker and on television, David shares unique insights — serious and humorous — about ways that changing technology may affect our future lives. He lives in San Diego County with his wife, three children, and a hundred very demanding trees.
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