Showing with captioning. The intro and Q&A on April 28 will include ASL interpretation.
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SAT, APR 27, 6:00 PM // Big Ideas presented by Scotia Wealth Management
Join director Peter Sillen and subjects Martine and Bina Rothblatt for a vital and profound conversation as they blend ferocious love, hard science and futurism in their quest to continue “Marbina’s” love affair into the infinite future. Guests: Director Peter Sillen and subjects Martine and Bina Rothblatt.
About the film
Can love last forever? Married for over forty years, Martine and Bina Rothblatt are deeply inspired by Octavia Butler’s book series Earthseed and her concept of “two bodies, one soul, forever in love.” As one of the world’s highest-paid female CEOs and founder of SiriusXM Satellite Radio, Martine is no stranger to reaching for the stars and has unlimited resources to make her bond with Bina everlasting. The Rothblatts commission Bina48, the first AI robot based on a living human being, using an “AI mindfile” of Bina’s consciousness. Housed inside a robotic bust, Bina48 represents the future and that future is Black and female (based on code written by white men). What does it mean when representation and code come from different sources? Love Machina asks big questions about essence and embodiment, gender and race, human connection and love, and places unexpected and much-needed emphasis on empathy, understanding and benevolence while exploring the future applications of cryopreservation, digital consciousness, xenotransplantation and space settlement.
Sales Agent: CAA