On Black Lies, Fake News, Algorithms and Social Media will use the Library of Black Lies as a platform to discuss the use of social media, fake news, and algorithms to manipulate the opinions and actions of the masses. This is a open discussion, opinionated are welcomed. 

Artist Edgar Arceneaux will be in discussion with Mark C. Marino, writer and scholar of electronic literature living in Los Angeles.  Mark teaches writing at USC where he Directs the Humanities and Critical Code Studies Lab (http://haccslab.com). The talk will be moderated by Main Museum Director Allison Agsten. 

Mark C. Marino is a writer and scholar of digital literature living in Los Angeles who recently taught a 3-week course in Fake News for UnderAcademy College. His creative works include “Living Will,” “a show of hands,” and  “Marginalia in the Library of Babel.” He was one of ten co-authors of 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 (http://10print.org) (MIT 2013) and was a collaborator with Jessica  Pressman and Jeremy Douglass on Reading Project: A Collaborative Analysis of William Poundstone's Project for Tachistoscope {Bottomless Pit} (Iowa Press 2015). Mark is currently working with his two children on a series of interactive children's stories, entitled Mrs. Wobbles and the Tangerine House.