Presenters include: Steve Dietz, former Curator of New Media at the Walker Art Center; Christiane Paul, Adjunct Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art; Alex Galloway, artist-programmer and Assistant Professor of Media Ecology Department of Culture and Communication, New York University; and Natalie Bookchin, artist and faculty member, California Institute for the Arts.

Innovative in its format, Floating Points is designed as a lecture, an artist presentation, and a dialogue with the audience. Three of the four talks will include artists – chosen by that evening’s main speaker -- who will demonstrate their work in a tell, show, and discuss format. Each theorist and artist will illustrate the major themes and current direction of network-oriented art, and audience discussion is encouraged. The first speaker, Steve Dietz, will introduce the series with an overview of the current state of net art. All lectures are free and open to the public.

The events take place at Emerson College’s Bill Bordy Theater, 216 Tremont St., at 7 pm. Orange Line to Chinatown, Green line to Boylston.

Floating Points is co-presented by Emerson College and Turbulence.org, and funded by the Emerson College School of the Arts, the City in Transition initiative, the Department of Visual and Media Arts, and the Office of Graduate Studies.