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Symphonie Cinétique

‘It’s been interesting to write a dance piece for non-humans,’ says musician Ólafur Arnalds of Symphonie Cinétique, a kinetic composition that unites sound and motion. The project is the result of collaboration between the Icelandic musician and Joachim Sauter of Art+Com.
Symphonie Cinétique is composed of five kinetic works that explores digital technology in art, design, science and technology. The team employed various technologies in pieces that often explore soft, fluid movement driven by hardware. Frequently inspired by science – natural versus artificial and animate versus inanimate – the designers sometimes embed their work with hidden messages and codes.

http://www.artcom.de/en/projects/project/detail/symphonie-cinetique-the-poetry-of-motion

More at  Made, or better, during Berlin Art Week, which runs from 17 to 22 September, 2013.

Calder anticipated, artistically, the physiological properties of V5 region cells

 

Black Peacock, 1950
ALEXANDER CALDER

This mobile is a powerful example of how an art form can be tailored to the physiology of a specific area in the brain. Calder’s composition anticipated, artistically, the physiological properties of the cells of an area called V5, which are selectively responsive to motion and its direction. Viewed from a distance, the separate pieces of the mobile appear as static spots of varying sizes. But as the pieces move in different directions, each one stimulates only the category of cell that is selectively responsive to the direction in which the spot is moving. —Semir Zeki, Neuroscientist, University College London © Christie’s Images/Corbis

Michel Foucault

This theme of the artistic life, which is so important throughout the nineteenth century, basically rests on two principles. First: art is capable of giving a form to existence which breaks with every other form, a form which is that of the true life. The other principle is that, if the artistic life does in fact have the form of the true life, then this in turn guarantees that every work which takes root in and starts from this life truly does beconong to the dynasty and domain of art.
Michel Foucault, The Courage of Truth.

Innovation

Innovation has always been the key element, I think, when "the unknown swirls around and engulfs the mind".

GRIND

http://vimeo.com/49514492

All the senses were hungry. All senses WERE hungry during the whole performance. 

A battle through the darkness.

How does the image communicates to the soul reflected on the retina, so that the soul can see things? What can do touch the soul? Not things, but the waves exciting the eye. Kepler himself was already aware of this: "Like this representation [idolum, says the Latin text] or that painting is linked to the spirits that inhabit the nerve and the retina.."

The GRIND by Jefta van Dinther, Minna Tiikkainen and David Kiers is an "immediate experience" not worth to miss.

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Freedom Creates Knowledge

ABSTRACT
Knowledge changes constantly as research probes the validity of existing knowledge and converts ignorance into new knowledge. Research may also create new ignorance by discovering entirely novel territories whose very existence we had not imagined.
Our author analyzes the conditions most conducive to drawing back the curtains.
 GOTTFRIED SCHATZ 
 Photo: Robert Frankl

 -> more at http://www.mpg.de/6348769/W001_Viewpoint_014-018.pdf

Looking back at 13.2 Billion Years in time!

Hubble eXtreme Deep Field (XDF): looking back at 13.2 Billion Years in time!

The XDF contains about 5,500 galaxies even within its smaller field of view!. (Each dot is one!) The universe is 13.7 billion years old (after the Big bang), and the XDF reveals galaxies that span back 13.2 billion years in time when the universe was only 450 million years old!.
Most of the galaxies in the XDF are seen when they were young, small, and growing, often violently as they collided and merged together. XDF is a "time tunnel into the distant past.

XDF was assembled by combining 10 years of NASA Hubble Space Telescope photographs taken of a patch of sky at the center of the original Hubble Ultra Deep Field. The XDF is a small fraction of the angular diameter of the full Moon.

Released 26 September 2012

see :http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2012/37/image/a/

The Making of the Humanities III

*CALL FOR PARTICIPATION*

The preliminary program of The Making of the Humanities III (Rome, 1-3 November 2012) is now online -- see http://makingofthehumanitiesiii.blogspot.com/

Space, Geometry and the Imagination

From Antiquity to the Modern Age
Berlin, 27-29 August 2012

http://polyhedra.co.cc/images/SpaceAndGeometry_ConferenceMPIWG.pdf

• Invited Speakers
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[Lat., Nescia mens hominum fati sortisque futurae, Et servare modum, rebus sublata secundis.]
O heart of man,/ not knowing doom, nor of events to be!/ Nor, being lifted up, to keep thy bounds/ in prosperous days!
- The Aeneid (X.501)

why do we dream??

“Why Do We Dream?” is a fascinating short video about dreaming by Vsauce.