The Galeries — Blog — Understanding the power of the human brain. Donna Haraway - A Cyborg Manifesto. An ironic dream of a common language for women in the integrated circuit This chapter is an effort to build an ironic political myth faithful to feminism, socialism, and materialism. Perhaps more faithful as blasphemy is faithful, than as reverent worship and identification. Blasphemy has always seemed to require taking things very seriously. I know no better stance to adopt from within the secular-religious, evangelical traditions of United States politics, including the politics of socialist feminism. Blasphemy protects one from the moral majority within, while still insisting on the need for community. A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction.
Contemporary science fiction is full of cyborgs — creatures simultaneously animal and machine, who populate worlds ambiguously natural and crafted. The cyborg is resolutely committed to partiality, irony, intimacy, and perversity. Fractured identities. Ear on Arm. The EAR ON ARM has required 2 surgeries thus far. An extra ear is presently being constructed on my forearm: A left ear on a left arm. An ear that not only hears but also transmits.
A facial feature has been replicated, relocated and will now be rewired for alternate capabilities. Excess skin was created with an implanted skin expander in the forearm. By injecting saline solution into a subcutaneous port, the kidney shaped silicon implant stretched the skin, forming a pocket of excess skin that could be used in surgically constructing the ear. NYU art professor to take photos with camera implanted in the back of his head. In the name of art, New York University photography professor Wafaa Bilal is walking around with a camera implanted in the back of his head. It’s a situation that invites pithiness: Cyclops would be jealous. It’s the most high-tech third eye ever. Next adopters: mothers? But Bilal, an assistant arts professor at the university’s Tisch School, underwent the yearlong project because he was commissioned to do so.
The images, automatically taken once a minute and then streamed live online starting next week, will be showcased at the Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art when it opens Dec. 30 in Qatar. He’s calling the project “The 3rd I.” But while devoted to his craft, playing host to a camera hasn’t been easy for Bilal, he told the Wall Street Journal. The 10-megapixel camera, 2 inches in diameter, was attached to his head about two weeks ago in a “transdermal implant” while he was under local anesthesia. The process –- videotaped, of course –- took place at a piercing studio. -- Tiffany Hsu. Technology as applied science. A paradox Perhaps you have noticed a curious phenomenon.
Many engineers and scientists identify technology with applied science. From the charter of the first engineering society to today, engineers talk proudly of application of science. Many such as Robert Thurston and Charles Steinmetz happily called engineering applied science. However, some engineers consider being identified with applied scientists an insult, as one insists: “engineering applies science but is not applied science.” Why are the attitudes so different? Two senses of “applied science” Science generally means state of knowing or possessing knowledge that is sufficiently general, clearly conceptualized, carefully reasoned, systematically organized, critically examined, and empirically tested.
Practicality of topics divides between basic and applied sciences. A different sense of “applied science” underlies the attack on engineering and technology as applied science. Is applied science disdained in American culture? Notes. Hybrid arts. Hybrid arts is a contemporary art movement in which artists work with frontier areas of science and emerging technologies. Artists work with fields such as biology, robotics, physical sciences, experimental interface technologies (such as speech, gesture, face recognition), artificial intelligence, and information visualization. They address the research in many ways such as undertaking new research agendas, visualizing results in new ways, or critiquing the social implications of the research.
The worldwide community has developed new kinds of art festivals, information sources, organizations, and university programs to explore these new arts. Hybrid arts is also the name of a non profit Arts education company in the United Kingdom. Overview/ history of the term[edit] Many artists are responding to the central role scientific and technological research plays in contemporary culture.
Many new support systems have evolved to nurture, show, and interpret this kind of art. Kac, Eduardo. Knowledge, Truth, and Meaning. An excerpt from the online hypertext Human Knowledge: Foundations and Limits. Knowledge Knowledge is justified true belief. Belief in a proposition p is justified if 1) it is developed though a process that reliably yields truth, 2) it is appropriately caused by the fact that p is true, and 3) it would generally not be held if p were false.
The reliability criterion entails that synthetic (i.e. inductive) knowledge is always provisional. The causal and counterfactual criteria entail that whether a true belief counts as knowledge depends on inherently imprecise judgments concerning whether the believer is accidentally right. Operationally, a belief is justified if and only if it is convincing and defensible.
Truth Truth is logical and parsimonious consistency with evidence and with other truth. The Principle of Parsimony (or Occam's Razor) is that the simpler of two explanations is to be preferred when they are otherwise equivalent. Humans have proposed several criteria for truth. Meaning. This Guy and His Beard Explain the Higgs Boson to You Like You’re a Dumb Child. Over the past couple of days, you may have read that scientists have found the Higgs boson. You may have even heard some people refer to it as the “God Particle.” You also may have just glossed over that headline because why would you care that they’ve found it, when you don’t even know why the hell they were looking in the first place? In short (really short), the Higgs boson is hypothetical particle (boson) present in a Higgs field. The Higgs boson was first mentioned in 1964 as a way to explain the Higgs mechanism, or, the way in which particles acquire mass.
Thus ends my embarrassing attempt at particle physics. Well, if you ever wanted to have the Higgs boson explained to you by a guy wearing a pretty sweet T-shirt – now is your chance. The “guy” is actually John Ellis, a theoretical physicist who sat down to attempt to succinctly define the Higgs boson just one day before CERN made their big announcement regarding their research into the particle. Get educated below: What’s next? Rising to the Climate Challenge: Artists and Scientists Imagine Tomorrow’s World. Creativity in the Face of Climate Change.
Creating a "Fourth Culture" of Knowledge: Jonah Lehrer on Why Science and Art Need Each Other. World's Total CPU Power: One Human Brain | Wired Science. By John Timmer, Ars Technica How much information can the world transmit, process, and store? Estimating this sort of thing can be a nightmare, but the task can provide valuable information on trends that are changing our computing and broadcast infrastructure.
So a pair of researchers have taken the job upon themselves and tracked the changes in 60 different analog and digital technologies, from newsprint to cellular data, for a period of over 20 years. [partner id="arstechnica" align="right"] The trends they spot range from the expected—Internet access has pushed both analog and digital phones into a tiny niche—to the surprising, such as the fact that, in aggregate, gaming hardware has always had more computing power than the world’s supercomputers. The authors were remarkably thorough. Even so, there are some significant estimations here.
Computing capacity is converted into MIPS, and estimates for the total number and class of chips are available. Storage Computation See Also: The Third Culture. The title of the book refers to Charles Percy Snow's 1959 work The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, which described the conflict between the cultures of the humanities and science. Twenty-three people were included in the 1995 book: The book influenced the reception of popular scientific literature in parts of the world beyond the United States. In Germany, the book inspired several newspapers to integrate scientific reports into their "Feuilleton" or "culture" sections (such as the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung).
At the same time, the assertions of the book were discussed as a source of controversy, especially the implicit assertion that "third culture thinking" is mainly an American development. Critics acknowledge that, whereas in the Anglo-Saxon cultures there is a large tradition of scientists writing popular books, such tradition was absent for a long period in the German and French languages, with journalists often filling the gap. References[edit] Further reading[edit] THE THIRD CULTURE. The third culture consists of those scientists and other thinkers in the empirical world who, through their work and expository writing, are taking the place of the traditional intellectual in rendering visible the deeper meanings of our lives, redefining who and what we are. In the past few years, the playing field of American intellectual life has shifted, and the traditional intellectual has become increasingly marginalized.
A 1950s education in Freud, Marx, and modernism is not a sufficient qualification for a thinking person in the 1990s. Indeed, the traditional American intellectuals are, in a sense, increasingly reactionary, and quite often proudly (and perversely) ignorant of many of the truly significant intellectual accomplishments of our time. Their culture, which dismisses science, is often nonempirical. It uses its own jargon and washes its own laundry. In 1959 C.P. Snow published a book titled The Two Cultures.
How did the literary intellectuals get away with it? The Future of Science…Is Art? In the early 1920s, Niels Bohr was struggling to reimagine the structure of matter. Previous generations of physicists had thought the inner space of an atom looked like a miniature solar system with the atomic nucleus as the sun and the whirring electrons as planets in orbit. This was the classical model. But Bohr had spent time analyzing the radiation emitted by electrons, and he realized that science needed a new metaphor. The behavior of electrons seemed to defy every conventional explanation. As Bohr said, “When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.”
Ordinary words couldn’t capture the data. Bohr had long been fascinated by cubist paintings. Black Peacock, 1950 ALEXANDER CALDER This mobile is a powerful example of how an art form can be tailored to the physiology of a specific area in the brain. Bohr’s discerning conviction was that the invisible world of the electron was essentially a cubist world. Consider, for example, the history of physics. [Yasmin_discussions] Benefits of art science collaboration to science and engineering.
Yasminers Dimitris Charitis will be starting up again the Hybrid Citydiscussion on September 13 in the meantime: re the benefits of art-science collaboration to science and engineeringyou will find a number of supporting documents : a) What are the goals of art-sci collaboration: b) What are the different types of art-science collabo c) How to select art-sci projects through peer review: d) Patents filed as a result of art-sci collabor e) Reference List supporting Science Case for Art-Science Collabo All Comments, Suggestions, Criticisms , discussion on YASMIN Roger.
Cern: where art and science collide. Artists Switzerland Arts and science are similar in that they are expressions of what it is to be human in this world By Ariane Koek. Web onlyPublished online: 04 October 2011 Olafur Eliasson's "Your Split Second House", shown at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2010, took physics as its jumping-off point It is one of the fashionable arts movements of the moment.
Almost every week, across the world, exhibitions are opening that are billed as arts/science to cash in on this emerging trend, which is also driven by new funding possibilities from science in the current arts cash crisis. But we are in the middle of a crisis of another kind—a reduction in the wonder of creativity itself, and the question of who controls it and how. But there is a battle to do just that, and reduce creativity to a systematic formula in our function-obsessed, input-output, application-driven world.
Let me explain. I have deliberately set it up to be a laboratory of the imagination, where freeplay can happen. CERN scientists inexplicably present Higgs boson findings in Comic Sans. Humanature-press-release. Human/Nature: Artists Respond to a Changing Planet. April 1, 2009 - September 27, 2009 Can art inspire conservation? Can conservation inspire art? Human/Nature: Artists Respond to a Changing Planet began six years ago in the form of these questions, triggering an unusual collaboration and an extraordinary and circuitous journey. BAM/PFA, in partnership with the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) and the international conservation organization Rare, commissioned eight of the world’s most thoughtful and innovative artists to travel to eight UNESCO-designated World Heritage sites and to create new works of art in response to their travels and experiences there.
The projects reached around the globe. Mark Dion traveled to Indonesia, to Komodo National Park; Marcos Ramírez ERRE went to the Three Parallel Rivers area of Yunnan, China. While conservation served as a contextual underpinning for the site visits, there was no thematic mandate the artists were asked to follow. Have our questions been answered? Rising to the Climate Challenge: Artists and Scientists Imagine Tomorrow's World. Tate and the Royal Society collaborate by bringing together scientists and artists to imagine the social and psychological impacts of climate change. Watch the full proceedings and presentations on the Tate Channel On 19 and 20 March, Tate and the Royal Society collaborate to bring you a screening of the film The Age of Stupid followed by a discussion and a public symposium about the social and psychological impacts of climate change.
How do notions of adaptation, mitigation, and geo-engineering expand when artists and scientists listen to each other's ideas? This science-art public forum uses the imagination to engage with the future of our planet. The event begins on Friday 19 March with a screening of drama-documentary, The Age of Stupid, which will be followed by a discussion. 6.30pm - 8.45pm, £5 (£4 conc). The symposium programme begins at 10:30 on Saturday 20 March and continues until 5pm. . £13/£10 (conc) Special inclusive price for screening and symposium £10/£8 (conc) Symposium only. 13) - dOCUMENTA (13)
1. Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev - The ArtReview Power 100. Hatje Cantz Verlag | Interview mit Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev. Visiting Artists | Collaborations in art, science, and technology. Arts@CERN | Arts@CERN. Art/Science Collaborations on Bodies and Environments. Feral Robotic Dogs. The Commons - Artist Projects. Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI) - ASCI history. Nature Walk with Concept/OK: Residency Artist Sarah Hearn. New Art/Science Addinities.