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; [...]
Archive of posts tagged technology
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 [...]
What’s New in the Magic Lantern Research Group?
Currently the ‘Magic Lantern Research Group’ is the most extensive online resource on the Magic Lantern, made available by Kentwood Wells and housed on ZOTERO. The Magic Lantern Research group is a library and bibliography of resources for magic lantern research. The resource can be accessed at http://www.zotero.org/groups/magic_lantern_research_group. Best viewed with Mozilla Firefox since ZOTERO fluently works [...]
Article: Fish known as wrasses are found to use tools
Giacomo Bernardi, an evolutionary biologist at UC Santa Cruz, reports that on a recent diving expedition to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef he discovered and filmed a wrasse, called an orange dotted tusk fish, using an underwater rock as an anvil to smash a clam’s shell and allow it to devour the flesh inside. Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/09/28/BASB1LAPG2.DTL#ixzz1ZMnMb8kh ==> [...]
FYI: Babbage Analytical Engine designs to be digitised
The Science Museum in London has agreed to help by digitising the mathematician’s original plans. Eventually the images will be used to create a full working model of the Analytical Engine. Conceived in the late 1830s, it foreshadowed the modern computer revolution by more than a century. Babbage’s many notepads and sketch books are currently held in the [...]
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: HYPOTHESIS: AN ART/SCIENCE FAIR AT THE LAB, SAN FRANCISCO:
The Lab invites artists, scientists, writers, musicians, performers, theorists, and other makers to participate in Hypothesis: An Art/ Science Fair to be held on November 5, 2011 in conjunction with the Bay Area Science Festival. Participants will present their practice in the form of a traditional science fair display, using the “scientific method” to: define [...]
Ann: ISEA2011 Curatorial Concept UNCONTAINABLE
http://isea2011.sabanciuniv.edu/other-event/uncontainable The lines and borders of contemporary national states present the observer with ideological and cultural frameworks that are no longer valid. Concepts of identity, cultural identifiers, nation state and belonging as well as place and time are challenged in both real and virtual contexts. In the 21st century the idea of creating cultural products that are solely a reflection [...]
Review: Situated Aesthetics: Art Beyond the Skin by Riccardo Manzotti
Reviewed by Amy Ione for Leonardo Reviews Situated Aesthetics: Art Beyond the Skin is the fruit of a workshop held in Milan in September 2009. The workshop brought together cognitive and neuroscientists, artists, philosophers, and others interested in expanding beyond the reductionistic, brain-focused approach that predominated in early art and the brain publications. Divided into three [...]
