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Gallery Chat: Jamie Metzl on Futurism and Stanley Kubrick

A discussion of futustic ideas, evolution, and hacking the genetic code.

Jamie Metzl is author of the genetics thriller Genesis Code and of The Depths of the Sea, a historical novel about the Cambodian genocide. His new novel, Eternal Sonata, imagines a future global struggle to control the technology for extreme human life extension. Metzl is a Senior Fellow of the Atlantic Council and has served in the US National Security Council, State Department, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, as Executive Vice President of the Asia Society, and with the United Nations in Cambodia. He appears regularly on major global media and his writing on Asia, international affairs, and genetics is featured regularly in publications around the world.

Presented in conjunction with Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition on view Jun 30–Oct 30, 2016 at The Contemporary Jewish Museum.

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Leadership Support for digital media at The Contemporary Jewish Museum is generously provided by the Jim Joseph Foundation.

Stanley Kubrick is an exhibition by the Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt am Main, Christiane Kubrick, Jan Harlan, and The Stanley Kubrick Archive at University of the Arts London, with the support of Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., Sony-Columbia Pictures Industries Inc., Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios Inc., Universal Studios Inc., and SK Film Archives LLC. 

The CJM’s presentation is made possible by lead sponsorship from the Bernard Osher Jewish Philanthropies Foundation. Major sponsorship from Osterweis Capital Management. Patron sponsorship is provided by Gaia Fund, Maribelle and Stephen Leavitt, Nellie and Max Levchin, Julie and David Levine, RayKo Photo Center, Dorothy R. Saxe, and Wendy and Richard Yanowitch. Supporting sponsorship is provided by an anonymous donor, Naomi and Jeffrey Caspe, Dana Corvin and Harris Weinberg, Morton and Amy Friedkin, Rosanne and Al Levitt, Siesel Maibach, Shana Nelson Middler and David Middler, Shelli Semler and Kyle Bach. Additional support is provided by an anonymous donor, Alvin H. Baum, Jr., Sally-Ann and Ervin Epstein, Jr., Joelle Steefel, Ruth and Alan Stein, and Wetherby Asset Management. 

Additional support is provided by The Contemporary Jewish Museum’s Bernard and Barbro Osher Exhibition Fund.

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