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Laurie Anderson presents Spending the War Without You: Virtual Backgrounds. The Forest is the second in a series of six lectures, looking at the challenges we face as artists and citizens as we reinvent our culture with ambiguity and beauty. This talk will consider place – visual and spatial sound. About the Speakers Presented by Laurie Anderson, one of America’s most renowned – and daring – creative pioneers. Known primarily for her multimedia presentations, she has cast herself in roles as varied as visual artist, composer, poet, photographer, filmmaker, electronics whiz, vocalist, and instrumentalist. Moderated by Timothy Morton, Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University. They are the author of the libretto for the opera Time Time Time by Jennifer Walshe. Their work includes All Art Is Ecological (Penguin, 2021), Spacecraft (Bloomsbury, 2021), and Being Ecological (Penguin, 2018), as well as many essays on philosophy, ecology, literature, music, art, architecture, design an
