Inversion
“…a large funnel-like vortex beginning from the west wall adjacent to Montrose Blvd. The exterior skin of the houses will be peeled off and used to create the narrowing spiral as it progresses eastward through the small central hallway connecting the two buildings and exiting through a small hole into an adjacent courtyard.”
][selec][text
][selec][text documents rite][ual][s of passage thru stylistically driven e-communication. It is also a writing crè][ative][che, 1 that reveals & critiques the very mechanism/form][s][ that it m.mploys in order to exist.
Joseph Brodsky – Nobel Lecture 1987:
“A man of my occupation seldom claims a systematic mode of thinking; at worst, he claims to have a system – but even that, in his case, is borrowing from a milieu, from a social order, or from the pursuit of philosophy at a tender age. Nothing convinces an artist more of the arbitrariness of the means to which he resorts to attain a goal – however permanent it may be – than the creative process itself, the process of composition.”
Consciousness in a Cockroach -
“Paired structures called mushroom bodies in a cockroach brain play a key role in navigation.”
The Market-O-Matic (1.0) [fine arts version]
“… — pimping yourself to the self-referential digital arts community has never been so easy!”
“… electronic writing applications involve a new way of writing and narrating, a new grammar and a new semiotics. These days, text is no longer conceived as a consecutive line of words but as a multidimensional space which shapes different possible stories.”
Tagwebs, Flickr, and the Human Brain (by Jakob Lodwick)
A neuron in your brain is a lot like a tag in a tagweb.
SELF
Innovative 1994 R&D GUI programming environment that attempted to emulate physical systems, emphasizing: directness, uniformity and modelessness.PDF: “Self: The Power of Simplicity” David Ungar and Randall B. Smith, 1994
Self: The Movie
Tracing the Dynabook
“Desktop computing and multimedia were not first conceived as tools for office workers or media professionals— they were prototyped as “personal dynamic media” for children. Alan Kay, then at Xerox’ Palo Alto Research Center, saw in the emerging digital world the possibility of a communications revolution and argued that this revolution should be in the hands of children. Focusing on the development of the “Dynabook,” Kay’s research group established a wide-ranging conception of personal and educational computing, based on the ideal of a new systems literacy, of which computing is an integral part.”
Writing the Digital Life
“WDL is a collaborative transdisciplinary blog about the impact of digital technologies upon writing and lived experience. We talk about writing and reading in the context of ‘new and old’ media, transliteracy, craft, art, process and practice, social networks, cooperation and collaboration, narrative and memory, human computer interaction, imagination, nature, mind, body, and spirit.”
“Books were still governed by the old rule,
Born of a belief that visible beauty
Is a little mirror for the beauty of being.”
Czeslaw Milosz, A Treatise on Poetry
Theories of Media Change: Understanding New Media – Garnet Hertz
“Towards the end of his life, McLuhan and his son Eric embarked on a project to update the 1964 Understanding Media in response to his critics’ requests to provide a solid basis for his drastic and metaphoric claims; the result was Laws of Media: The New Science , published by his son eight years after Marshall’s death. Laws of Media defines a general theory of media change, constructing a tetrad model with four characteristics of media-in-transition: extension, obsolescence, reversal and retrieval.”
10:02am January 27th, 2007,
I listened to the following two generative audio sites at the same time:
I listened to the following two generative audio sites at the same time:
Dr. Yoshiro Nakamatsu interview by Chic Thompson
“Genius lies in developing complete and perfect freedom within a human being. Only then can a person come up with the best ideas.”
Alexis O’Hara
“Writings of many sizes and varieties.
Fresh product according to availability.
No-carb enterbrainment.
Suitable for all all levels.
Satisfaction is your choice.”
William Poundstone
“…the nautilus emblem may suggest the Web itself, with its labyrinthine architecture and spiraling growth.”
U B U W E B :: After Language Poetry — Christian Bök: The Square Root of -1
“…the web page may provide the first, truly synaesthetic composition by field, in which the page no longer offers a passive terrain for the exploration of a lyrical thought because now the page itself can interact both dynamically and sensorially with the poet, engaging every sense at once in an immersive experience beyond the limited purview of the word.”
U B U W E B :: After Language Poetry — Brian Kim Stefans
“Cyberpoetry does not exist, and it is time that this preposterous fiction followed the trace, the spectacle, the rhizome, the libidinal economy, the paradigm, the sememe, phoneme, grapheme, little Miss Prision and the eighty-thousand North American progressive dadaists into oblivion. Why not?”
“But why write poems
If not because grief or joy
Has seized you. Why read
Them if you don’t want
To make us weep or shout aloud?”
David Orr,
Concerning the Book That is the Body of the Beloved,
Copper Canyon Press, 2005
Poetry Magazine
“Academic poetry is intelligent but dull; non-academic poetry is dopey but exciting. Fair or not, that’s been the rule of thumb for at least half a century, and generally speaking it’s suited everyone just fine.”
Richard Kostelanetz | Examples | Three Visual Litterateurs
“We are coming to recognize visual literature as a distinct genre whose measure is simply the visual enhancement of language. Once the concept of a distinct genre is in mind, we can acknowledge that visual literature can appear in many media, only one of which is books….”
Paul Laffoley, The Phenomenology of Revelation (1989)
NOTATION AND THE ART OF READING, Karl Young
“The idea of notation implies, if not demands, performance. Virtually any form of writing is a kind of notation and any form of reading is a type of performance. Poetry is an intensely physical art, one that activates several senses at once. In aural societies poetry has traditionally been accompanied by facial movement, gesture, manipulation of symbolic objects, the drawing and painting of figures, the wearing of costumes, etc. — all of which, in a tribal context, are read. Poetry still is a physical art using multiple senses: the body as a whole equals or sometimes replaces the voice in performance art, and even silent readers turn pages, move their heads, their eyes, the roots of their tongues if not their tongues and lips, and so forth.”
NT2 | Nouvelles technologies, nouvelles textualités.
“Quel est le statut du texte littéraire, de l’art, du cinéma sur Internet?”
Messa di Voce – Tmema / Blonk / La Barbara
“…an audiovisual performance in which the speech, shouts and songs produced by two abstract vocalists are radically augmented in real-time by custom interactive visualization software.”
: : whisper[s] research group : :
“…developing technology and communications metaphors that enable networked wearable devices to communicate affective states in a continuous manner.”
“aRt+d.”
Scientists Discover New Life Forms In The Arctic Ocean
“The researchers have discovered a new group of microscopic organisms, which they have baptized “picobiliphytes”: pico because of their extremely small size, measured in millionths of a meter, bili because they contain biliproteins, highly fluorescent substances that transform light into biomass, and phyte meaning they are plants.”
“It’s a very exciting discovery,” comments Dr. Lovejoy.
Perception abstract
“Oliver Sacks observed autistic twins who instantly guessed the exact number of matchsticks that had just fallen on the floor, saying in unison “111”. To test the suggestion that normal individuals have the capacity for savant numerosity, we temporarily simulated the savant condition in normal people by inhibiting the left anterior temporal lobe of twelve participants with repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS). This site has been implicated in the savant condition. Ten participants improved their ability to accurately guess the number of discrete items immediately following rTMS and, of these, eight became worse at guessing as the effects of the pulses receded. The probability of as many as eight out of twelve people doing best just after rTMS and not after sham stimulation by chance alone is less than one in one thousand.”
Born Magazine: Art and Literature Collaboration
Born Magazine is an experimental venue marrying literary arts and interactive media. Original projects are brought to life every three months through creative collaboration between writers and artists.
organic information design | ben fry
“Design techniques for static information are well understood, their descriptions and discourse thorough and well-evolved. But these techniques fail when dynamic information is considered. There is a space of highly complex systems for which we lack deep understanding because few techniques exist for visualization of data whose structure and content are continually changing. To approach these problems, this thesis introduces a visualization process titled Organic Information Design. The resulting systems employ simulated organic properties in an interactive, visually refined environment to glean qualitative facts from large bodies of quantitative data generated by dynamic information sources.”
Daniel Canty : “Horizon One: Write issue concentrates on adaptations of that most intense form of writing – literature – from paper-bound book to computer screen.”
Perspective | Futility Closet
Earth seen from 4 billion miles away, photographed by Voyager 1 on June 6, 1990.
Of the “pale blue dot,” astronomer Carl Sagan said, “That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every ’superstar,’ every ’supreme leader,’ every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.”
N Katherine Hayles:
“…we are near the beginning of a theory of media-specific analysis in literary studies.” ( p.102)Writing Machines
:: web supplement
:: book
Tortuga :: Chapter 2. Art and Consciousness
One of the outstanding features of civilization is the antagonism that develops between what comes to be called science and art. The former term literally means “knowledge”; the latter, “a way of doing things.”If wisdom is the union of these two, their separation implies a loss of meaning,
a fall into absurdity.
“Without contraries is no progression.
Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate,
are necessary to human existence.”
- William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell,
“The Argument”, 1790
“The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties of woods, rivers, mountains, lakes, cities, nations, and whatever their enlarged numerous senses could percieve.” (Plate 11)
“For every thing that lives is Holy.”
Roots
A world with a fluid atmosphere in a glass tank. Dark crystals grow trying to make connections. Constellations develop. They generate sound. And after some time they dissolve into clouds…,
Dynamic Sculpture, 2005-2006
“Adventurous is not experimental. Experimental belongs to the laboratory. Adventure to life. Much of recent art has been merely experimental. It tries poetry with first one element then another omitted. I leaves out the head. Then it is too emotional. It leaves out the heart. Then it is too intellectual. It leaves out the feet. Then it is free verse. Adventure ends in the poorhouse. Experiment ends in the madhouse. Water spout theory of learning from above down from below up till it meets.”
SOURCE: Harpers, Readings. January 2007, p. 11. From The Notebooks of Robert Frost, Harvard University Press, 2006.
Lawrence Fixel
The effort of the Intellect is to explain the Mystery.
The effort of the Imagination is to express the Mystery.
QDB:
Damn… while coming home from the store, this drunk came up to me, and was like, “Hey, you big black nigger! Loose-lips McGee, why don’t you go back to your monkey relatives? Bet you couldn’t even add 1 + 1.”
And I calmly respond, “What’s the derivative of cosecant(x)?”
he just replied, “fuck you” and left..
mo[ve.men]tion net(wurker) mez
“Mez’s ID.xorcism, written in her by now famous “mezangelle” language shows us one more time the possibility to use the Net as a non-linear reading tool and that coding can be artistically and culturally oriented, through its creative re-interpretation.”
News at Seven
News at Seven automatically generates a virtual newscast pulled from stories, images, videos and blogs all linked by a common news topic.
Experiments with Uri Geller at the Stanford Research Institue (SRI) in California.
Cyberkinetics – Neurotechnology Systems, Inc.: BrainGate™ Neural Interface System
The BrainGate™ Neural Interface System is currently the subject of a pilot clinical trial being conducted under an Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) from the FDA. The system is designed to restore functionality for a limited, immobile group of severely motor-impaired individuals.
| Google TechTalks July 26, 2006 Luis von Ahn ABSTRACT… the ESP Game, described in this talk, is an enjoyable online game — many people play over 40 hours a week — and when people play, they help label images on the Web with descriptive keywords. These keywords can be used to significantly improve the accuracy of image search. People play the game not because they want to help, but because they enjoy it. I describe other examples of “games with a purpose”: Peekaboom, which helps determine the location of objects in images, and Verbosity, which collects common-sense knowledge. I also explain a general approach for constructing games with a purpose. |
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The Prometheus Society Articles The Outsiders
“His name was William James Sidis, and his IQ was estimated at between
250 and 300 [8, p. 283]. At eighteen months he could read The
New York Times, at two he taught himself Latin, at three he learned
Greek. By the time he was an adult he could speak more than forty
languages and dialects. He gained entrance to Harvard at eleven,
and gave a lecture on four-dimensional bodies to the Harvard Mathematical
Club his first year. He graduated cum laude at sixteen, and became
the youngest professor in history. He deduced the possibility
of black holes more than twenty years before Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
published An Introduction to the Study of Stellar Structure…..Of all the prodigies for which there are records, his was probably the most powerful intellect of all. And yet it all came to nothing. He soon gave up his position as a professor, and for the rest of his life wandered from one menial job to another. His experiences as a child prodigy had proven so painful that he decided for the rest of his life to shun public exposure at all costs.”
“Our research orientation is that a detailed understanding of basic emotional systems at the neural level will highlight the basic sources of human values and the nature and genesis of emotional disorders…”
Stephen Oppenheimer – Out of Africa human origins
“Who were our ancestors? From where did we originate? If we came out of Africa, what factors governed our routes? And when? Now finally this interactive map reveals an exciting journey of opportunity and survival, confirmed by genetic science and documented by ancient rock art.”
A Global Projection of Subjective Well-being: A Challenge to Positive Psychology?
“….the basic needs of people, needs such as healthcare, education and housing, have strong effects on SWB [Subjective Well Being].”
Auditory Seismology
“A collection of audified seismograms can be heard via the web to give an audible impression of the earth’s sound.”
” When I go mad,
I call my friends by phone:
I am afraid they might think
they’re alone. “
Chris Hamilton-Emery Offers Advice on How to Make Poetry Submissions
“Alas, sympathy does not sell books, it sells greeting cards….”
www.wendagu.com
wenda gu
“united nations: united 7561 kilometers
….5000 m human hair braid made of 7561000 m of human hair, rubber stamps of recreated 191 nations’ names of the world, a hair column
1 m human hair = 0.00529 g, a 50 m hair braid = 0.4 kg (400 g), 5000m human hair braid = 7561kilometers (4698 miles)…”
Michel de Certeau,
The Practice of Everyday Life
“We witness the advent of the number. It comes along with democracy, the large city, administrations, cybernetics. It is a flexible and continuous mass, woven tight like a fabric with neither rips nor darned patches, a multitude of quantified heroes who lose names and faces as they become the ciphered river of the street, a mobile language of computations and rationalities that belong to no one.”
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Avatars consume as much electricity as Brazilians
“…if we look at developing countries, where per-capita consumption is 1,015 kWh, we find that avatars burn through considerably more electricity than people do.”
Fragments from the Library
“As the circuit supplants the printed page, and as more and more of our communications involve us in network processes – which of their nature plant us in a perpetual present – our perception of history will inevitably alter. …. we meet the past as much in the presentation of words in books of specific vintage as we do in any isolated fact or statistic. The database, useful as it is, expunges this context, this sense of chronology, and admits us to a weightless order in which all information is equally accessible.” Sven Birkerts, The Gutenberg Elegies:
MoMA.org | Exhibitions | 2007 |
Douglas Aitken | sleepwalkers
“…continuous sequences of film scenes will be projected onto eight facades…the artist will create a cinematic art experience that directly integrates with the architectural fabric of the city…”
[ Oulipo Compendium ]
a) The Oulipo is not a closed group; it can be enlarged through the co-optation of new members.
b) No one can be expelled from the Oulipo.
c) Conversely (you can’t have something for nothing), no one can resign from the Oulipo or stop belonging to it.
d) It follows that, once a member of the Oulipo, always a member. This has particular implications:
d’)The dead continue to belong to Oulipo.
Poetry Archive
The Poetry Archive is the world’s premier online collection of recordings of poets reading their work.
Brazilian believed to be world’s oldest woman
Da Silva’s birth certificate shows that she was born Feb. 28, 1880.
Da Silva’s birth certificate shows that she was born Feb. 28, 1880.
Project Teddy applet page
Teddy:
A Sketching Interface for 3D Freeform DesignCopyright (C) 1998 Takeo Igarashi
The Human Security Report
“The first Human Security Report documents a dramatic, but largely unknown, decline in the number of wars, genocides and human rights abuse over the past decade.”
Eclipse
Eclipse is a free on-line archive focusing on digital facsimiles of the most radical small-press writing from the last quarter century. Eclipse also publishes carefully selected new works of book-length conceptual unity.
FEATURING: exemplars of the new trobar clus, adventures in diminished reference, lost classics of modernism, écriture actuelle, hard-core composition, ephemeral memos filed by the Research Division of the Bureau of Resistance, and a series of sacrifices in which the victims are words.
(Pores 4)
How and why do the ways of reading poetry in the UK that are most publicly visible still exclude work that is aesthetically and linguistically radical? What is the history of these models of reading poetry, and what is their relationship to marketing? What are the key sites of influence and how do they work (as cultural practices and as forms of power)? Why have recent moves, for example in Poetry Review, to give some recognition to the range of British poetries aroused such hostile responses? What is at stake? What are the possibilities for real change? What types of writing and publishing are offering alternative economies of reading to those that postmodern capitalism benefits from?
The Office of Janna Levin
“A physical Theory of Everything is the greatest ambition consuming theoretical physics. Yet last century we were forced to concede that there will never be a mathematical theory of everything.”
Th Illusion of Conscious Will
Daniel Wegner: “How do people come to understand their actions as their own? Common sense tells us we know when actions are ours because we have caused them; we are intrinsically informed of what we do by our conscious will. But it turns out people can be mistaken about their own authorship….people will feel they are the source of action when they think about that action in advance of its occurrence, and alternative sources of the action are not known. This theory calls into question the common sense view that conscious will is the cause of action.”
Wegner,
D. M. (2002). The illusion of conscious will. Cambridge,
MA: MIT Press.
Tactical Sound Garden [ TSG ] Toolkit
….an open source software platform for cultivating public “sound gardens” within contemporary cities.
- Bruce Sterling
“I believe more good things are in store, and some are bound to come from the tangled, ubiquitous, personal, and possibly unpredictable Net.”
Speckled Computing Website
“Specks will be minute (around 1 mm3) semiconductor grains that can sense and compute locally and communicate wirelessly. Each speck will be autonomous, with its own captive, renewable energy source. Thousands of specks, scattered or sprayed on the person or surfaces, will collaborate as programmable computational networks called Specknets.”
First They Came for the Jews
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.Pastor Martin Niemöller
transmediale06
“This work involves no less than two hundred hand-kerchief-sized pieces of linen onto which the French artist Annette Messager has embroidered misogynistic proverbs.”
7freedom.com – Beyond Thought
“This paradigm-shift is a shift beyond paradigms, from thought to conscious silence. Moving beyond thought and paradigms. Leaving conceptual understanding behind and shifting into immediate understanding, without mediation of thoughts and concepts. Understanding through direct intelligence, direct perception.”
Iraq War Fuels Global Jihad
“Instead of containing terrorism with war in Iraq, the US has fortified it, giving terrorists a new base of operations, argues international affairs professor and author Fawaz Gerges.”
Lee Lozano – Drawn From Life – A Review by Donald Goddard
“Along the way and finally, from 1969 through 1971, she drew up propositions, just handwriting on paper, for pieces that were simply to be acted out rather than produced in any material form, including the demise of her own career in the art world. These included Thinking Offer, Fascist Experiment, Dialogue Piece, Grass Piece, No Grass Piece, Masturbation Investigation, General Strike, Give Up Publicity, Thinking Abt. Form and Content, Lozano Emergency T S Fund, and I Have No Identity. There was to be no record of the dialogues, and there isn’t, over the last 27 years of Lozano’s life in Dallas, Texas, where she moved from New York in 1972.”
Lee Lozano: “Gradually but determinedly avoid being present at all official or public ‘uptown’ functions or gatherings related to the ‘art world’ in order to pursue investigation of total personal and public revolution.”
Dust, fertilization and sources
” The winter Bodélé dust is carried over the populated regions of west Africa where it can be affected by smoke and urban pollution before it continues transport over the Atlantic and towards Amazonia. Although Koren et al do not speculate on the chemical possibilities in their paper, the interaction between the dust and the pollutants provides opportunity for acids to coat the dust particles and to mobilize the iron compounds, creating a highly efficient fertilizing agent for ocean phytoplankton and the biota of the Amazon forest. Koren et al do quantify the dust emission of the Bodélé depression, estimating that this small area produces approximately 50% of the Saharan dust deposited in the Amazon.”
As We May Think,Vannevar Bush,The Atlantic Monthly | July 1945
“A memex is a device in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory.”
Christian Vandendorpe
Comment définissez-vous le cyberespace ?“C’est le nouveau territoire de la culture, un espace qui pourrait jouer le rôle de l’Agora dans la Grèce ancienne, mais à un niveau planétaire.”
Social Modulation of Pain as Evidence for Empathy in Mice — Langford et al. — Science 30 June 2006
“Empathy is thought to be unique to higher primates, possibly to humans alone. We report the modulation of pain sensitivity in mice produced solely by exposure to their cagemates, but not to strangers, in pain.”
Memory experts show sleeping rats may have visual dreams – MIT News Office
“…neurons activated when the animal experiences an event while awake
reactivated during sleep.”
To understand the Universe we must start from the here and now.
“Quantum mechanics forbids a single history.”
Thomas Hertog
CERN, Geneva
Rumi – Selections of his poetry from Allspirit
my beloved grows
right out of my own heart
how much more union can there be
HPCR
“Human security – a complement to state-centric security models with a focus on individual and community needs as an important guarantor for sustainable peace and stability.”
Condition contrainte, Carre d’Art, Nimes, France,
20.10.2006 — 07.01.2007
Hans Rosling on TED Talks
“Hans Rosling is professor of international health at Sweden’s world-renowned Karolinska Institute, and founder of Gapminder...”
Rosling:”The improvement of the world must be highly contextualized…”
“When…really working..It becomes clear, pure thought that is flowing out of me through my hands and into the work…”
pg. 72, Nicola Hicks, Momentum, GB, 1999
Helen Fisher
“…research on the evolution and
future of human sex, love and marriage and gender differences in the brain
and behavior.”
50 Things We Know Now (That We Didn’t Know This Time Last Year) 2006 Edition
#32. Just 30 minutes of continuous kissing can diminish the body’s allergic reaction to pollen, relaxing the body and reducing production of histamine, a chemical cell given out in response to allergens.
HHMI News: Neuron’s “Hardware Store” Discovered
“…building materials that nerve cells use to construct new connections during learning..sac-like organelles called endosomes…”
What Is an Event?
“…with Leibniz the question surges forth in philosophy that will continue to haunt Whitehead and Bergson: not how to attain eternity, but in what conditions does the objective world allow for a subjective production of novelty, that is, of creation? The best of all worlds had no other meaning: it was neither the least abominable nor the least ugly, but the one whose All granted a production of novelty, a liberation of true quanta of “private” subjectivity, even at the cost of the removal of the damned. The best of all worlds is not the one that reproduces the eternal, but the one in which new creations are produced, the one endowed with a capacity for innovation or creativity: a teleological conversion of philosophy.”
Gilles Deleuze, The Fold, Leibniz and the Baroque, translated by Tom Conley, the University of Minnesota Press, 1992.
location one | in the sky, by leesa and nicole abahuni
“an exploration into the sharing of the senses”
Mission Statement of BLTC Research
“BLTC RESEARCH was founded in 1995 to promote paradise-engineering. We are dedicated to an ambitious global technology project. BLTC seek to abolish the biological substrates of suffering. Not just in humans, but in all sentient life.”
Song of Songs 2 / Hebrew – English Bible / Mechon-Mamre
טז דּוֹדִי לִי וַאֲנִי לוֹ, הָרֹעֶה בַּשּׁוֹשַׁנִּים. 16 My beloved is mine, and I am his, that feedeth among the lilies.
HUMUMENT.COM – The Official Site of A HUMUMENT by Tom Phillips
“A HUMUMENT is a treated book by British artist Tom Phillips
based on the Victorian novel ‘A Human Document’ by W.H. Mallock.”
La Chambre Blanche– les rapprochements
Rachel Echenberg
“Je place l’image de mon corps dans le « non-espace » derrière l’écran. Vous, vous vous déplacez dans l’œuvre à partir de votre propre environnement….”
NeurobiologyA channel sets the gain on pain : Article : Nature
“Cox et al.1 have now discovered SCN9A mutations that cause a loss of Nav1.7 function in three families from Pakistan. Their observations link loss of Nav1.7 function with a congenital inability to experience pain…”
Nature 444, 831-832 (14 December 2006) | doi:10.1038/444831a; Published online 13 December 2006
Neurobiology: A channel sets the gain on pain
Robert Bringhurst:
“…speaking is much older and more universal than writing. It seems to me a better venue, much of the time, for the evanescent, mutable agelessness that is apt to distinguish a poem…..It makes good sense to me that a book about oral literature should be spoken before it is written, and written to be spoken, not just read.”
*~
“They went to sleep .
Then he skinned the child, starting at the feet,
and crawled inside the skin.
He took the baby’s place.”
(p.284, Raven Travelling in “Being in Being”, trans. R. Bringhurst)
Perspecta: Actuality Systems
Floating, hologram-like, interactive imagery.
IO2Technology: Heliodisplay/ Interactive Free-Space Display
A close-up of a fish under office lighting in which the Heliodisplay is concealed
into a coffee table using a customized external projection configuration.
Tate Liverpool | Jake and Dinos Chapman | Disasters of War
“Goya’s series of 83 prints Disasters of War 1810-20 are the
basis for all of the works in this room. The portfolio was made
as a commentary on the Napoleonic invasion of Spain in 1808
and its aftermath, and is a damning reflection on the horrors
and atrocities of war.”
Atelier van Lieshout
Midi Disciplinator
2005
The Bug 1.3
Motors – Pager motors with OTU (Over Timer Unit) gearbox.
Circuit – Two suspended bicores hooked acting as a master – slave.
Batteries – Two Ni-MH 3.6V 60mA hooked in series.
Heliotrack.com – Heliostats and solar tracking
“…solar heliostats that are guided by optical solar tracking electronics. The analog solar tracking circuit controls two mechanical actuators that move a mirror plane in two axes. The mirror plane will reflect the sun to a stationary target during the day and then return to a preset morning position after sunset. The tracking electronics are capable of tracking the sun with sub degree accuracy”
“…elfs are small, analog creatures reacting to light…”
How to grow an Orangina bottle
“10 calories of oil is needed
to produce 1 calorie of food…..
2012. The ability to genetically enhance plants to grow plastics is realized.”
Robert Shields, World’s Longest Diary [Transcript]: Radio Documentary by Sound Portraits
“In his diary, Robert Shields records everything he eats. He records his blood pressure and pulse at various times during the day, the temperature outside and in, every conversation he has, every piece of junk mail he receives. He sleeps no more than two hours at a time so that he can record his dreams.”
Bodies in Biotechnology by Jennifer Willet: Vol 14 No 7 – 8 November 2006 – Leonardo Electronic Almanac
art will b: “….all that is wet, bloody, unruly, and animal, from mass imaginations of the biotech future…”
Image: ” inthewrongplaceness ” Copyright Kira O’Rielly
CTheory.net
“Machines everywhere. Desiring-machines, production-machines, abstract machines of faciality, organ-machines, energy-source machines. A fantastic density of machinic values that traverses the social field, and within which subjectivity most of all enters into a theatre of death decoded of its memories, deterritorialized of its means of reproduction, and decontextualized. “
Deleuze and Guattari: Two Meditations, Arthur Kroker, 1995