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Richard Sennett: The Sociology Of Public Life
February 6, 2012Speakers: Professor Craig Calhoun, Professor Bruno Latour, Alan Rusbridger, Professor Judy Wajcman, David Adjaye, Professor Geoff Mulgan, Lord Richard Rogers, Polly Toynbee.
This event was recorded on 14 May 2010 in Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building.
In this exciting half-day conference two panels on ‘Public Life and Public Policy’ and ‘Cities and the Public Realm’, discuss these themes in the context of the work of Professor Sennett, the eminent sociologist whose recent books include The Culture of the New Capitalism and The Craftsman.
Inside B&H conveyor system…
February 3, 2012A look inside the B&H conveyor system, the efficient NYC system that takes items you pick up in one part of the store directly to the checkout for you.
Dreamtime Alarm Clock powered by Water
February 2, 2012
Social conventions are defined by time and success. Every day, we are pressured to complete many different tasks. This daily rhythm ignores our need to sleep, and yet it is sleep that makes this rhythm possible. We need to pay closer attention to sleep.
By filling the alarm clock with water, we focus our attention on the duration of sleep. The task itself becomes a ritual which positively influences our rest. As opposed to the incessant ticking sound of a regular clock, here time passes silently and purely mechanically. As the drops of water fall, the glass bowl becomes lighter and finally lets the hammer fall. As the tone bounces between the singing bowls, we are gently awakened and a new day begins.
Time is something hard to grasp, but sleep is an experience.
Via Vera Wiedermann
A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors navigate spaces with obstacles
February 2, 2012
Experiments performed with a team of nano quadrotors at the GRASP Lab, University of Pennsylvania. Vehicles developed by KMel Robotics. Photo Copyright by KMel Robotics.
The Deleted City
January 30, 2012
The Deleted City is a digital archaeology of the world wide web as it exploded into the 21st century. At that time the web was often described as an enormous digital library that you could visit or contribute to by building a homepage. The early citizens of the net (or netizens) took their netizenship serious, and built homepages about themselves and subjects they were experts in. These pioneers found their brave new world at Geocities, a free web hosting provider that was modeled after a city and where you could get a free “piece of land” to build your digital home in a certain neighborhood based on the subject of your homepage. Heartland was – as a neighborhood for all things rural – by far the largest, but there were neighborhoods for fashion, arts and far east related topics to name just a few.
Around the turn of the century, Geocities had tens of millions of “homesteaders” as the digital tenants were called and was bought by Yahoo! for three and a half billion dollars. Ten years later in 2009, as other metaphors of the internet (such as the social network) had taken over, and the homesteaders had left their properties vacant after migrating to Facebook, Geocities was shutdown and deleted. In an heroic effort to preserve 10 years of collaborative work by 35 million people, the Archive Team made a backup of the site just before it shut down. The resulting 650 Gigabyte bit torrent file is the digital Pompeii that is the subject of an interactive excavation that allows you to wander through an episode of recent online history.
The installation is an interactive visualization of the 650 gigabyte Geocities backup made by the Archive Team on October 27, 2009. It depicts the file system as a city map, spatially arranging the different neighborhoods and individual lots based on the number of files they contain.
Text via The Deleted City
ASTRONOMICAL: On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres
January 30, 2012A scale model of our solar system in twelve 500 page volumes printed-on-demand. On page 1 the Sun, on page 6,000 Pluto. The width of each page equals one million kilometers.
This film takes us through the first volume where we encounter the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars and the Asteroid Belt.
Order the set from mishkahenner.com
Seventh Sense (Excerpt) / 第七感官 (五分鐘版)
January 28, 2012Anarchy Dance Theatre + UltraCombos
安娜琪舞蹈劇場 + 叁式
Nov. 2011, TAIWAN.
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Choreograph by Chieh-hua Hsieh
AnarchyDanceTheatre@gmail.com
This piece is still under progress. Premiere on Nov. 2012, TAIWAN.
Performing Data, the Book
January 24, 2012
Performing Data, the exhibition, was a review of Fleischmann and Strauss´ body of work from Virtual Reality (Home of the Brain) up to Mixed Reality (Murmuring Fields or Energie-Passagen), from Fluid (Liquid Views) to Rigid (Rigid Waves) up to Floating Interface (Media Flow).
Monika Fleischmann and Wolfgang Strauss from the Fraunhofer IAIS Research Institute show an intersection of the body and immaterial digital data. From Body Space (Virtual Striptease) to Knowledge Space (Semantic Map): Interactivity as an extension of touch is a central strategy of their work – interactivity with its complex relationship to reality, re-presentation and presence.
The body as interface and intersections to the disembodied digital information. Immersion in data flow causes productive moments of disturbance and suspension, and consequently – a feeling of real physical presence.
The exhibition Performing Data included works from the early 1990s, when the artists/scientists were co-founders of the ART+COM collective in 1987 in Berlin. Since 1992 they developed their work as research artists at KHM and GMD – the German National Research Center for Information Technology, since 1997 as directors of the Media Art & Research Studies (MARS) department and since 2001 at Fraunhofer Society, in the Institute for Media Communication (IMK) and the Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems in Sankt Augustin, Germany.
Violinist Responds to Concert Interruption by Cell Phone With Improvised Nokia Ringtone Song
January 23, 2012Slovak musician Lukáš Kmit responded by improvising his own classical version of the Nokia ringtone. Orthodox Jewish synagogue in Presov Slovakia. Recorded by GREATMILAN in July 30, 2011
3D printer and living “ink” create cartilage
January 23, 2012Lawrence Bonassar, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, describes a cutting-edge process he has developed in which he uses a 3D Printer and “ink” composed of living cells to create body parts such as ears.
Carnivorous Caterpillars in Hawaii
January 20, 2012Taken from BBC South Pacific Episode 1. Ocean of the Islands Blu-ray
The Dubai Graphic Encyclopedia by Brusselsprout
January 17, 2012
To consider compiling an encyclopedia (of any kind) in post-Wikipedia times is an exercise in emotional withdrawal.
From a position of bewilderment and confusion we choose to act by producing and employing another tool from the land of the naive and outdated, represented by encyclopedic work, devoid of all logic and meaning considering current cultural conditions and speed. What the first edition Dubai graphic and visual encyclopedia presents is a reality that acts as a counterpoint to all the excess of attempts to decipher and understand Dubai. Attempts that are mostly unable to uncover items that shed light on the question ‘What’s it all about’?
Organizing scanning devices for the entire physical reality and processing information in much the same way as the early explorers did in order to reach unknown lands. The encyclopedia will be updated periodically so as to provide an authentic (temporal) guide and a database for Dubai and its times. With the suspicion that perhaps behind all this there’s a new grammar, we also need to develop new dictionaries.
Brusselsprout
Bruno Latour: May Nature Be Recomposed? A Few Questions of Cosmopolitics
January 17, 2012The Neale Wheeler Watson Lecture 2010, given by Professor Bruno Latour: “May Nature Be Recomposed? A Few Questions of Cosmopolitics”.
Location: Nobel Museum, Svenska Akademiens Börssal, May 11 2010. The Neale Wheeler Watson Lecture is given every spring at the Nobel Museum by an international scholar of excellence.
Viscous thread falling on a moving belt
January 16, 2012A stream of very viscous syrup falls from a nozzle onto a moving belt. Initially, the belt is moving so fast that the thread is just pulled out straight. As the speed of the belt is reduced, the thread first bifurcates to a meandering state, and then to a “figure eight” state. Finally, the thread falls into a coiling motion similar to what it would do on a non-moving surface.
The syrup is Newtonian.
See http://www.physics.utoronto.ca/nonlinear/papers_thread.html
The Future of Firefighting – Mask gives firefighters “bionic” vision
January 16, 2012A “Start Small, Think Big” report that demonstrates Tanagram’s vision for an Augmented Reality Firefighter’s SCBA Mask.
SEX: An Unnatural History
January 12, 2012
Australian network SBS aired Sex: An Unnatural History over the course of six weeks. ‘Sex: An Unnatural History’ is a six-part factual series exploring the last 50 years of Australia’s sexual landscape. Presenter Julia Zemiro brings her wit, intellect and humor to each episode starting with an exploration of why we started having sex and how we became hardwired to monogamy.
Humans started copulating to procreate but if we can make a baby in a test tube and even get someone else to carry it for us where does that leave sex? Is it now just purely about pleasure?
The introduction of the pill sparked a revolution that is still happening, but where are we headed? Julia explores what taboos are still left to us and why societies require sexual boundaries. We’re moving towards more liberated attitudes about marriage, homosexuality and personal fetishes but is everything up for grabs? When it comes to fashion many of us use what we wear to signal what we are looking for, but what does fashion also tell us about the sexual attitudes of the day? And how are our sexual lives affected by our churches?
Julia delves into the complex world of how and why the Catholic Church became so fixated with what we do between the sheets and how one little pill may have led to the demise of confession.
Julia takes a look at how and why humans fall in love and what role chemicals play when Cupid’s arrow strikes. But isn’t there more to it than neurotransmitters and serotonin? Isn’t it all about the romance? How can we explain the metaphysical aspect of love and how it transforms not only our sex lives but also every other part of our lives?
We end the series with a look at sex and the future. All sorts of people have opinions on what sex will be like in 2060. Sure, we can imagine robot lovers, virtual partners and sex without gravity but will we ever invent something better than a condom?
Episode 1: The Revolution
The 1960s was an era that heralded the birth of feminism, civil rights, free love and gay liberation – a sexual revolution that changed our attitudes towards sex and relationships forever.
Episode 3: Fashion
Does how we dress tell us what we’re like in the bedroom? If you see someone wandering around in fetish gear it’s safe to say they’re doing so to attract potential mates of like minds. But what else can fashion tell us about sex? A lot, it seems.
Episode 4: The Church
Why do people cry out “oh God!” during sex? Is it because sex transcends our mind and bodies? Religion has been getting between the sheets since it became organized, but it was the sexual revolution of the ’60s and birth control that brought matters to a head.
Episode 5: Love
Sex existed long before the idea of love but somewhere along the annals of history the two became entwined. Many humans then started selecting their partners based on this emotion.
Riusuke Fukahori and his Three-Dimensional Goldfish Embedded in Layers of Resin
January 9, 2012
Riusuke Fukahori creates incredible depth in his artworks by painting a layer at a time onto acrylic resin, until a 3-dimensional image is formed, sort of like how 3D printers work. More photos HERE
Via The Awesomer
Artist Riusuke Fukahori’s London debut exhibition “Goldfish Salvation” transforms ICN gallery into the world of goldfish. When struggling with artistic vision, Fukahori’s pet goldfish became his inspiration and ever since his passion and lifelong theme. His unique style of painting uses acrylic on clear resin which is poured into containers, resulting in a three-dimensional appearance and lifelike vitality.
ICN gallery proudly presents Goldfish Salvation by artist Riusuke Fukahori from 1 Dec 2011 – 11 Jan 2012.
Biopixels: Living ‘Neon Signs’ Composed of Millions of Glowing Bacteria
January 5, 2012UC San Diego: In an example of life imitating art, biologists and bioengineers at UC San Diego have created a living neon sign composed of millions of bacterial cells that periodically fluoresce in unison like blinking light bulbs.
Their achievement, detailed in this week’s advance online issue of the journal Nature, involved attaching a fluorescent protein to the biological clocks of the bacteria, synchronizing the clocks of the thousands of bacteria within a colony, then synchronizing thousands of the blinking bacterial colonies to glow on and off in unison.
A little bit of art with a lot more bioengineering, the flashing bacterial signs are not only a visual display of how researchers in the new field of synthetic biology can engineer living cells like machines, but will likely lead to some real-life applications. Continue HERE
Massage your Mind (abstractly and geometrically) with Zen Magnets
January 5, 2012
Recommendation: Mute the video above and play the track below.
Satory in Atlantis by Cory Allen. Released on Test Tube
Zen Magnets are small but curiously strong rare earth super-magnets, 5mm in diameter. How powerful? 8 Times more powerful than the ceramic magnets driving your speakers. 30 Times more powerful than the average fridge magnet.
Pull them into a chain, fold them into a fabric, and meld them into limitless shapes: both abstract and geometric, flat or 3D. Use them when you need to massage your mind, practice your patience, relieve some boredom or alleviate some stress.
Head feeling a bit dull? Maybe your brain just needs to get up and stretch a bit. You know, give it some exercise, get the blood flowing; make that gray matter in your skull stronger, faster. If allowed, Zen magnets can be a great workout for both hemispheres of your brain: The left brain – directing the right hand – that is responsible for logic, math and language. The right brain – controlling the left hand – that is responsible for spatial abilities, creativity and visualization. With total creative control, Zen magnets are more than the average puzzle advent, they are an enjoyable means to actual mental development.
What is Neuromarketing?
January 3, 2012Dr Philip Harris introduces neuromarketing.
Wiki: Neuromarketing is a new field of marketing that studies consumers’ sensorimotor, cognitive, and affective response to marketing stimuli. Researchers use technologies such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure changes in activity in parts of the brain, electroencephalography (EEG) and Steady state topography (SST) to measure activity in specific regional spectra of the brain response, and/or sensors to measure changes in one’s physiological state (heart rate, respiratory rate, galvanic skin response) to learn why consumers make the decisions they do, and what part of the brain is telling them to do it.
Companies such as Google, CBS, and Frito-Lay amongst others that have used neuromarketing services to measure consumer thoughts on their advertisements or products.
The word “neuromarketing” was coined by Ale Smidts in 2002.
A Loom Weaving Chicken Wire and The Language of Steel
January 3, 2012You might choose to accompany the video above with the track below. This piece was made by [interrupt: Jumper] and recently released on Test Tube.
Freedom Decoder [5'32"]
Chicken wire, also known as poultry netting and hexagonal netting, is a woven wire mesh. The video below shows how chicken wire mesh is woven. You can see how the wires are twisted together to make the hexagonal opening.
This particular machine is weaving mesh used in making Gabions. Although the mesh is larger (3″) and the wires used are heavier (11 gauge and heavier) than the chicken wire you can buy at your local store, the manufacturing process is similar.
There is one difference. This machine is doing continuous weave – the twisted wires run in the same direction the entire length of the twist. Chicken wire available in stores is made with a reverse twist – the twist switches direction (reverses itself) half way through the length of the twist. Continuous weave is inherently stronger than reverse twist.
Text by Duncan Page of Louis E. Page.
Conceptual mix by Wanderlustmind
Residency on Andrea Zittel’s Indianapolis Island. Call for Proposals for 2012.
December 26, 2011
Andrea Zittel, American, b. 1965, “Indianapolis Island,” 2010. Fiberglass, foam, mixed media. Commissioned by the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
The Indianapolis Museum of Art is issuing a call for proposals for a summer 2012 six-week residency on Andrea Zittel’s Indianapolis Island within the IMA’s 100 Acres: The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art and Nature Park. Graduate and undergraduate students and emerging professionals in the fields of art, design, architecture and performing arts are encouraged to apply to customize and reside on Indianapolis Island.
Anchored in the 35-acre lake within 100 Acres, Indianapolis Island is a habitable “off-the-grid” structure accessible by rowboat. At about 20 feet in diameter, the island serves as an experimental living structure that examines the daily needs of contemporary human beings. Residents collaborate with Zittel by adapting and modifying the island’s structure according to their individual needs. The project blends elements of environmental art, sculpture, design and performance in a unique way, offering a challenging and experimental forum for exploring ideas about individualism and self-sufficiency. Visit www.imamuseum.org/islandresidency for more information, including photos and renderings of the structure, and to apply for the residency.
The 2012 residency will be the third to take place on Indianapolis Island. During the artwork’s inaugural summer in 2010, Herron School of Art and Design (Indianapolis, Ind.) students Jessica Dunn and Michael Runge activated the installation through a series of visitor interactions based on a system of exchange with their project titled Give and Take. The 2011 island resident was Katherine Ball, a student of Portland State University’s Art + Social Practice MFA program (Portland, Ore.). Over the course of her residency, titled No Swimming, Ball initiated a series of ecological interventions in the Park’s lake and engaged a local audience through a series of public programs centered on the topic of water. For more information about the past residencies, visit www.imamuseum.org/100acres/artists/andreazittel.
Proposals are due Friday, January 13, 2012, and should include a brief written statement about the planned residency with renderings. Residencies must last six weeks or longer and be conducted between May and September 2012.
About Contemporary Art at the Indianapolis Museum of Art
The IMA’s robust contemporary art program is a model for how encyclopedic museums engage the art of our time. With a renewed focus on its contemporary collection, programs, and publications, the IMA has been actively seeking out the works of emerging and mid-career international artists through both gift and acquisition, and organizing major traveling exhibitions and newly commissioned projects. In recent years, the IMA has worked with artists including Ingrid Calame, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Los Carpinteros, Amy Cutler, Tara Donovan, Tony Feher, Orly Genger, Jeppe Hein, Robert Irwin, Alfredo Jaar, Josephine Meckseper, Joshua Mosley, Ernesto Neto, Type A, and Andrea Zittel, among others.
In June 2010, the IMA launched its new 100 Acres: The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park to wide critical acclaim, and it has been hailed across the United States as a new model for site-responsive sculpture parks in the 21st century. Among the backdrop of woodlands, wetlands, and a 35-acre lake, the park currently includes nine commissioned art installations by artists from throughout the world as well as the Ruth Lilly Visitor Pavilion designed by architect Marlon Blackwell. 100 Acres is one of only a few sculpture parks in the United States dedicated to the ongoing commission of site-responsive artwork.
Lisa Freiman, the IMA’s senior curator and chair of the Department of Contemporary Art, was appointed the 2011 U.S. Commissioner for La Biennale di Venezia, the 54th International Art Exhibition. During the Biennale, the IMA presented six new works by the collaborative Allora & Calzadilla in the U.S. Pavilion for the exhibition titled Gloria.
Indianapolis Museum of Art
www.imamuseum.org
Twitter: @imamuseum
Via e-flux
Happy Holidays Hug from the Nicest Place on the Inter.net
December 25, 2011
What Makes Us Human?
December 24, 2011From The Leakey Foundation, which aims to increase scientific knowledge and public understanding of human origins, evolution, behavior, and survival, comes What Makes Us Human? — a multifaceted exploration of who we are as a species and how we came to be that way.
The Gaits: An Interactive Soundwalk iPhone App at the NYC High Line
December 24, 2011Preview of The Gaits: a High Line Soundwalk, by Lainie Fefferman, Jascha Narveson, Cameron Britt, and Daniel Iglesia. Produced by Friends of the High Line for Make Music Winter, December 21, 2011.
The Gaits: A High Line Soundwalk composed by Lainie Fefferman, Jascha Narveson, and Cameron Britt.
Download a free iPhone application that turns footsteps into electric guitar chords, car horns, and more, and become a musical instrument as you stroll down the High Line. The first fifty participants can rent free, wearable speakers for the duration of the soundwalk; visitors are encouraged to bring their own and join the fun.
The Best Data Visualization Projects of 2011
December 23, 2011
This graphic illustrates how a “size 8” differs across designers. You might recall this similar chart on men’s pants sizes from last fall.
A 10 year sequence of global fires as seen by NASA’s MODIS instruments. Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
Google Street View stop motion animation short made as a personal project by director Tom Jenkins.See more HERE
Marbelous Wood
December 23, 2011
Marbelous Wood challenges the way we use wood in our built environment, where function and aesthetics reach a sublime level of harmony.
Pernille Snedker Hansen has repurposed an old marbling technique giving wood a supernatural, organic, colorful and vibrant pattern. The applied decoration engages in a dialogue with the natural growth rings of the underlying wood.
Marbelous Wood reveals the mysteries in wood, exposing its story and the immense details embodied in nature.
snedker°studio is a contemporary design studio which develops innovative surfaces for the interior. Pernille Snedker Hansen started the design studio in 2009 and has been developing innovative surfaces at her studio and at artist residencies.
Process is an important factor in Pernille’s method of working.
She uses nature as a collaborator both in process and inspiration.
Her main drive is to challenge how we look and experience the surfaces that build up our environments. She wants to make people curious and enjoy the visual treasures in the details and unexpected materials.
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