Join us for an evening with writers Jasmina Tešanović and Bruce Sterling.

Jasmina Tešanović is a writer, journalist, musician, film director, feminist, and political activist (Women in Black; CodePink). In 1978 she promoted the first feminist conference in Eastern Europe, “Drug-ca Zena” (Belgrade). With Slavica Stojanovic she created the first feminist publishing house in the Balkans, Feminist 94, which lasted for ten years. She is the author of “Diary of a Political Idiot” (translated in twelve languages), a real-time war diary written during the 1999 conflict in Kosovo. Since then she has been publishing her works on blogs and other media, always connected to the Internet.

Bruce Sterling is a novelist and journalist. While acting as “Visionary in Residence” at Art Center College of Design in 2008, he wrote “Shaping Things,” one of the first books about the Internet of Things. In 2008 he was the curator of the Share Festival in Turin, on the theme of Italian digital manufacturing. He was one of the original columnists for Make magazine and wrote the cover story for the first issue of WIRED. Bruce Sterling lives in Turin, Belgrade, and Austin.