Engineering and Technology Studies at Illinois

Another installment in the movie series Movies Even an Engineer Would Love, The Tailenders, will be shown Wednesday, October 29, 2008, 7-9 pm at the Spurlock Museum:

Filmed in the Solomon Islands, Mexico, India, and the US, this film chronicles a missionary organization’s development of ultra-low-tech audio technologies (like a cardboard record player) to evangelize to traditional communities with limited access to electricity and media. Interspersing interviews with shots of nodal patterns, waveforms and a signal generator, the film “has presented disembodied audio as a religion unto itself” (The New York Times).

The Tailenders [2005] is 72 minutes with discussion to follow. Join us Wednesday for another Engineering, Technology, and Culture (ETC) event.

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