Personae in the 21st Century

Artist David Levine moderates a conversation on the use of personae in our domestic, political, and online lives with The New Yorker staff writer and novelist Elif Batuman; art historian Carrie Lambert-Beatty; and journalist, critic, and author Virginia Heffernan. They explore the bots, trolls, rent-a-families, fake crowds, and other parafictional characterss blurring distinctions between fact and fiction, fake and real in the 21st century.

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Presented in conjunction with the exhibition David Levine: Some of the People, All of the Time and in partnership with the Onassis Cultural Center New York’s Birds: A Festival Inspired by Aristophanes.