CODEX Mexico is a pioneering initiative aimed at promoting the arts of the book in Mexico and Latin America and to foster the development of international collaborations and cross-border outreach and exchange of skills and ideas. The first initiative is a collaboration with the Centro Cultural Estación Indianilla and Tonaltepec Global S.C. in response to [...]
Archive of posts filed under the FYI category.
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 [...]
Video: World Children’s Festival 2011 (sponsored by the International Child Art Foundation)
Occasionally what transpires in Washington DC can inspire our nation and the world. For more information visit the ICAF site at www.icaf.org
Cambridge University puts Isaac Newton papers online
The notebooks in which Sir Isaac Newton worked out the theories on which much classical science is based have been put online by Cambridge University. Here.
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 [...]
Article: Art and the Limits of Neuroscience
Art and the Limits of Neuroscience By ALVA NOë Why does art move us? Why does it matter? The answers are not likely to be found by studying the brain.
Institutional Critique: An Anthology of Artists’ Writings Reviewed by Amy Ione
Institutional Critique: An Anthology of Artists’ Writings brings together key documents related to institutional critique, a conceptual art movement that has raised questions about the workings of art institution (museums, galleries) since the 1960s. Alexander Alberro (one of the editors of this volume) calls it a “gesture of negation” (p. 3) that was adopted by [...]
