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Caught an interesting live conversation at the Berkeley Art Museum between artist Desirée Holman and the founder and director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and the Self and expert on sociable robotics, Sherry Turkle . Desirée Holman’s current work explores different types of new media, from television and music videos to online gaming, as a means to imagine and interrogate the human tendency to engage in fictional narratives. "The layers of action and meaning portrayed in her work speak to the contemporary condition of technology as it informs and mediates our sense of self and our social relations," say the BAM curators. Sherry Turkle is a professor in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT. She has authored books dealing with human interaction with media such as  Simulation and Its Discontents (2009) and Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other (2011), among other titles. She is a featured med