Xavier Gonzalez d'Egara - OR SPEAK THE NAME

Galerija Makina, Pula (Croatia) PDF

Goldsleger: Architecture as culture.

Cheryl Goldsleger: The NAS Project

February 4, 2013 - July 26, 2013

National Academy of Sciences, 2101 Constitution Ave., N.W. Washington, D.C.

Photo ID required. No charge. Viewable 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays. Closed weekends and holidays

 

To view the six videos that accompany this exhibition, click here.
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Designed by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, with sculptural details by Lee Lawrie, the NAS Building represents both a specific point in time, 1924 (the year it opened), and the timeless quest for scientific knowledge. Goldsleger’s exhibition celebrates the work of generations of scientists who build upon each other’s knowledge and reach previously unimagined heights of discovery and depths of understanding.
Goldsleger referenced information from the NAS Archives and studied Goodhue’s original building plans, along with numerous other sources, to create this body of work. She invites you to see the structure anew and explore the intricate network of ideas that are embodied in it.
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http://www.cpnas.org/exhibitions/current-exhibitions/cheryl-goldsleger.html

History`s Shadow

 David Maisel was born in 1961 in New York (USA) and currently lives in San Francisco. He is visual artist and photographer, graduated from the School of Design at Harvard (Cambridge), later he studied at California College of the Arts (San Francisco).

Inspired by a x-ray machine at the Getty Institute, Maisel started to look for artifact's x-rays through the archives of museums, uncovering these ghostly emanations of light, and then scanning, re-photographing and  manipulating them digitally to later present them as History's Shadow project.

Maisel's latest book History's Shadow conglomerate 21 pictures (40"x30", edition of seven). Like many of his previous projects,History's Shadow illustrates a keen interest in the manner in which photography can combine art, science and a sense of humanity.

  

Aristotle on Causality

Each Aristotelian science consists in the causal investigation of a specific department of reality. If successful, such an investigation results in causal knowledge; that is, knowledge of the relevant or appropriate causes. The emphasis on the concept of cause explains why Aristotle developed a theory of causality which is commonly known as the doctrine of the four causes. For Aristotle, a firm grasp of what a cause is, and how many kinds of causes there are, is essential for a successful investigation of the world around us.
 -> http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-causality/