3rd Workshop on Complex Networks, Complenet 2012 and Foosaner Art Museum (Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Florida) March 9 – April 8, 2012 The Art of Networks brings together twelve visualizations representing networks in topics as diverse as migration flows, speech cognition, citations, the spreading of social messages, and housing issues in the U.S. [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Art Science Technology category.
Behind the Google Goggles, Virtual Reality
Interesting article on the Google Goggles project that allows people to see through computer monitors in lenses. According to Nick Bilton, of the New York Times, Google will start selling eyeglasses that will project information, entertainment and ads onto the lenses. He mentions questions that have been raised on how privacy will be regulated. To [...]
Patterns of Chaos at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre
6 short new plays inspired by the topic: “Patterns of Chaos” Berkeley Repertory Theatre ,2025 Addison Street Monday February 20, 2011 8:00 PM (Pre-show discussion at 7:10 PM) http://www.playground-sf.org/monday.shtml
Call for Papers: The Evolutionary Review–Art, Science, Culture
Volume 4 – Spring, 2013: Published by SUNY Press, TER provides a forum for evolutionary critiques in all the fields of the arts, human sciences, and culture: essays and reviews on film, fiction, theater, visual art, music, dance, and popular culture; essays and reviews of books, articles, and theories related to evolution and evolutionary psychology; [...]
Automatons: Watching the historical human imagination mechanically mirror human functions
After seeing a wonderful automaton exhibition at the San Francisco Airport a few weeks ago, I was delighted to see an article on the Maillardet automaton at the Franklin Institute in today’s New York Times. The Maillardet automaton’s motions are controlled by dozens of slowly rotating brass disks. These disks contain all the data necessary [...]
Reviewed by Amy Ione: Helmholtz: From Enlightenment to Neuroscience
Helmholtz: From Enlightenment to Neuroscience by Michel Meulders; edited and translated by Laurence Garey, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2010, 264 pp., illus. 32 b/w. Trade, $27.95/£19.95, ISBN: 978-0-262-01448-9. A recurring topic among those interested in art, science, and technology is the value of transdisciplinary approaches. In my view, those who gravitate to this area [...]
