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Dualism | Gregory Brellochs
March 31st, 2012 | 0
Matrix II – John Whitney
February 9th, 2012 | 0
video by John Whitney
graphics programming by Dean Anschultz
music by Terry Riley
Auditory Transduction
February 9th, 2012 | 0
This 7-minute video by Brandon Pletsch takes viewers on a step-by-step voyage through the inside of the ear, to the acoustic accompaniment of classical music. Pletsch, a former medical illustration student at the Medical College of Georgia, first built a physical ear model and mapped which frequency ranges hit which parts of the inner ear. He then created digital renderings of each part of the hearing pathway using several software packages. A narrator describes how the sound waves travel through each portion of the ear, and how hair cells translate the vibrations they induce into nerve impulses.
20 Hz | Semiconductor
February 2nd, 2012 | 0
A Semiconductor work by Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt.
Audio Data courtesy of CARISMA, operated by the University of Alberta, funded by the Canadian Space Agency. Special Thanks to Andy Kale.
20 Hz observes a geo-magnetic storm occurring in the Earth’s upper atmosphere. Working with data collected from the CARISMA radio array and interpreted as audio, we hear tweeting and rumbles caused by incoming solar wind, captured at the frequency of 20 Hertz. Generated directly by the sound, tangible and sculptural forms emerge suggestive of scientific visualisations. As different frequencies interact both visually and aurally, complex patterns emerge to create interference phenomena that probe the limits of our perception.
Dimensions
January 29th, 2012 | 0
“Nine chapters, two hours of maths, that take you gradually up to the fourth dimension. Mathematical vertigo guaranteed!” – Dimensions
institute of artificial art, amsterdam
January 19th, 2012 | 0
The innovative stages of scientific investigation involve a definitely aesthetic mode of perceiving and thinking. When observing a phenomenon which is felt to be not understood, the empirical scientist must cast preconceptions aside, and avoid the conventional, classificatory perspective. Since he believes that his existing conceptual system is inadequate to grasp the phenomenon, he must prepare the emergence of new, possibly incommensurable concepts by embedding the concrete experience of the phenomenon in a rich network of analogical and associative projections across different domains. The move to a new conceptual system can only occur through the conscious experience of a formally incoherent state which is strongly reminiscent of the paradoxical “aesthetic concept” (which is emphatically not a concept!) invoked in Kant’s Kritik der Urteilskraft.
From Radical Art
BUMPR at AS220
December 12th, 2011 | 0
BUMPR show at AS220 in Providence tomorrow (BUMPR=Stephan Moore, Caroline Park, Tim Rovinelli and me), with Ted Hearne + Philip White and Evidence.
World on a Wire – Fassbinder
November 16th, 2011 | 0
McKenzie Wark on abstraction, among other things
November 9th, 2011 | 0
“Abstraction may be discovered or produced, may be material or immaterial, but abstraction is what every hack produces and affirms. To abstract is to construct a plane upon which otherwise different and unrelated matters may be brought into many possible relations. It is through the abstract that the virtual is identified, produced and released. The virtual is not just the potential latent in matters, it is the potential of potential. To hack is to produce or apply the abstract to information and express the possibility of new worlds.”
- McKenzie Wark, A Hacker Manifesto
