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explore-blog: The Three Astronauts – lovely vintage semiotic children’s book by beloved novelist and philosopher Umberto Eco teaches the child to draw connections between text and image through recurring symbols. It tells the inspired and irreverent story of space exploration and world peace as a Martian shows concern for a frightened bird and teaches three astronauts — an…
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That “famous scientist” was a Hungarian émigré mathematician called John von Neumann, and the electronic machine he was developing at Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) was, of course, the computer, the central product of today’s networked society. And it’s this story, of von Neumann’s attempt to assemble a team of the world’s most brilliant…
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(via LinkedIn Industry Trends | The Big Picture)
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If big, elaborate paintings (and reproductions thereof) are something that everyone can enjoy, why should the only people funding them be the rich collectors who can buy them outright? If the tastes of rich collectors dictate what sort of art gets made and acknowledged, isn’t that pretty limiting for everyone? Plus, galleries scared me. I…
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Music For Shuffle
Music For Shuffle notational: This is an ongoing project exploring how to make music specifically for shuffle mode. Each piece is made from small, interlocking phrases (each formatted as an individual MP3) which can be played in any order and still (hopefully) make musical sense. At the minute, these are just sketches and ideas in…
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corymetcalf: Quick and dirty mockup for Currents application Reminds me of Arthur C. Clarke’s axiom about sufficiently advanced technologies being indistinguishable from magic.
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Not everyone has the ability to differentiate between what is new and what is novel on the art market. This fact is mainly responsible for the confusion of the general public and the art world. Contemporary art objects have become a commodity. Today’s artistic manifestations are considered particularly modern or avant-garde the more they lack…
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In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work. When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes a machine that makes the art. SOL LEWITT (via…
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The main obstacle for booksellers is the cost of the machine. Buying it outright could be as much as $150,000, I was told, so a five-year lease option is widely preferred – but even that can run well over $5,000 a month, plus a variety of add-ons for personnel and basic supplies. To overcome that…
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Passing tests doesn’t begin to compare with searching and inquiring and pursuing topics that engage us and excite us. That’s far more significant than passing tests and, in fact, if that’s the kind of educational career you’re given the opportunity to pursue, you will remember what you discovered. Noam Chomsky on the purpose of education.…