Thursday, November 30, 2006
Uncanny Valley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Uncanny Valley is a hypothesis about robotics concerning the emotional response of humans to robots and other non-human entities.
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Vida 9.0 -- Paula Gaetano Adi “Alexitimia”
"...reconciling the "wet" domain of nature with the "dry" domain of electronics...."
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Quantum Psychology
"In 1949, D. David Bourland Jr. proposed the abolition of all forms of the words "is" or "to be" and the Bourland proposal (English without "isness") he called E-Prime, or English-Prime."
I-20 Gallery :: Sergei Bugaev Afrika: Stalker 3 Sergei Bugaev Afrika :Stalker 3, Video on DVD and mixed media installation, 53 minutes," Stalker 3 is found footage, edited by the artist, who has also reworked the sound in collaboration with artist Dmitry Gelfand. The video, which was found by Russian special forces, captures one day - April 16, 1996 - of the war in Chechnya."
QJ.NET - QuickJump Home - Gadgets news - QJ.NET
Forget Blu-ray's 200 GB disc capacity. Say good bye to HD DVD's 1,024 GB (one Terabyte) storage capability. While you're at it you can cross out Hitachi-Maxell's 300GB holographic CD and InPhase's upcoming 1.6 TB rewritable optical disc. Why even the 50,000 GB DVD couldn't hold a candle to the new Rainbow Versatile Disc's (RVD) 123.60 Petabyte capacity. Actually you shouldn't hold a candle to the RVD because it's made out of paper.
Monday, November 27, 2006
HARD TO SAY with William Stob ~ Episode #6 on Odeo
"Wouldn't you like to grasp
why it is that falling in love, and
coming to know, make you
feel genuinely joy's rim."
Juliet Patterson, The Truant Lover
(transcribed from audio...my apologies for the arbitrary linebreaks)
alex dragulescu - dynamic for the people
"Respam is a net.art platform for the collection, implementation, and cultural integration of unwanted, abject data in the form of solicitous messages (heretofore referred to as spam)."
"Specimen of Secrecy About Marvelous Discoveries
"Specimen of Secrecy about Marvelous Discoveries" is a series of works comprised of what Kac calls "biotopes", that is, living pieces that change during the exhibition in response to internal metabolism and environmental conditions. Each of Kac's biotopes is literally a self-sustaining ecology comprised of thousands of very small living beings in a medium of earth, water, and other materials. The artist orchestrates the metabolism of these organisms in order to produce his constantly-evolving living works."
United States Patent Application: 0060252371
"a human body communication system for communicating data via an electric field formed by intervention of a human body"
....no infrared, no bluetooth, just high frequency milliamps broadcasting data that is decoded by devices on the body....
What's Next In Science Technology - Silicone fibers contain living human brain cells
".....threads of biocompatible silicone that contain living human brain cells."
It appeared Nov. 13 in ACS' Biomacromolecules
Townsend-Nicholson, A.; Jayasinghe, S. N.
Biomacromolecules; 2006;
Sunday, November 26, 2006
Innovation Lab ::: The World's first screen to be made of concrete
"The screen consists of concrete with embedded optical fibres, arranged as pixels, capable of transmitting natural as well as artificial light. The light-admission points are on the back of the screen where the fibres are positioned. The light, or the picture, will then be displayed in pixels on the front. The light source can be a projector emitting either pictures or film footage. In principle, the screen is capable of acting as a window since – owing to the combination of the screen concept's light-absorption and optical cables – it has a capacity for transmitting natural light."
Saturday, November 25, 2006
BumpTop Prototype - HoneyBrown.ca
BumpTop aims to enrich the desktop metaphor with expressive, lightweight techniques found in the real world.
Electrical detection of coherent 31P spin quantum states : Article : Nature Physics
"The electron spin information is shown to be coupled through the hyperfine interaction to the 31P nucleus, suggesting that recombination-based readout of nuclear spins is feasible."
Andre R. Stegner, Christoph Boehme, Hans Huebl, Martin Stutzmann, Klaus Lips and Martin S. BrandtNature Physics advance online publication Published online: 19 November 2006 doi:10.1038/nphys465
Another step toward quantum computing.
"There are rare historical moments when developments in numerous fields enter a period of similar qualitative change before diverging into a multiplicity of new terms. Few of those who live through such a moment can grasp the full significance of what is happening. But all are aware of change: the future, instead of offering continuity appears to advance toward them."
p.322
Berger, J. (2001). Selected Essays. London: Bloomsbury.
Beneath the Metadata: Some Philosophical Problems with Folksonomy
"A philosophy of relativism allows folksonomy to draw on many users with various perceptions to classify a document instead of relying on one individual cataloger to set the index terms for that item...Therefore, a folksonomy universe allows both true and false statements to coexist."
A Woman Waits for Me
by Walt Whitman
Sex contains all, bodies, souls,
Meanings, proofs, purities, delicacies, results, promulgations,
Cycles Research Institute - Climate
"On a scale of thousands of years, we are due for a steep drop in temperature as we enter another ice age. This could start next week or not for a thousand years, we do not know.
On a scale of hundreds of years, we are at or possible past a peak of a 500-600 year cycle. This cycle appears to be associated with the rise and fall of major civilisations."
Kim Keever
"....4x5 transparencies of the aquarium setup in my apartment is half the creative process. Getting the film back is when I really see if I have made something interesting..."
Paint me a computer
"Chemists in Poland have constructed logic gates, the ‘atoms’ of computation, out of well-known pigments.
Konrad Szacilowski and colleagues at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow have made chemical switches out of titanium dioxide and Prussian blue, which are both commonly used paint pigments. The switches can replicate the basic logical operations in digital circuits."
K Szacilowski, W Macyk and G Stochel, J. Mater. Chem., 2006DOI: 10.1039/b606402g
Wireless Brain Machine Interface
Figure 5: Plots showing the locations of the external antenna and the implanted BMI device. Left: Sagittal view of the entire head, Right: Closer sagittal view of the region containing the implant.
EIJI INA: Waste, EIJI INA, Ito, Toshiharu
Ito, Toshiharu (introduction). EIJI INA: Waste. 72 pp., 41 color plates and 4 colour and b figures. 4to, boards. Tucson, Nazraeli Press, 1998.
Friday, November 24, 2006
http://www.neave.tv/#humans
Three Legged Legs™ ||| Humans!
Three Legged Legs™ ||| Humans!
Humans! is a 60 second global awareness PSA sensationalizing the excessive, all-consuming nature of the human being. This cute and naive Earth stands no chance against such an insatiable parasite. Witness its utter demise in a fun and sickening kind of way.
Andy Goldsworthy on Transience
"At its most successful, my 'touch' looks into the heart of nature; most days I don't even get close. These things are all part of a transient process that I cannot understand unless my touch is also transient-only in this way can the cycle remain unbroken and the process be complete." -Andy Goldsworthy
"many hamsters were harmed in the making of this film"
a parable about scientific positivism
http://www.carlitopolis.com
a parable about scientific positivism
http://www.carlitopolis.com
Shaking the World
Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation as A Novel Sensation Interface
TARO MAEDA, HIDEYUKI ANDO, TOMOHIRO AMEMIYA,
MASAHIKO INAMI, NAOHISA NAGAYA, MAKI SUGIMOTO
Siggraph2005 Demo of Radio-Controlled Walking
BREITBART.COM - Remote Control Device 'Controls' Humans
Nippon Telegraph Telephone Corp., Japans top telephone company, says it is developing the technology to perhaps make video games more realistic. But more sinister applications also come to mind.
I can envision it being added to militaries' arsenals of so-called "non-lethal" weapons.
A special headset was placed on my cranium by my hosts during a recent demonstration at an NTT research center. It sent a very low voltage electric current from the back of my ears through my head _ either from left to right or right to left, depending on which way the joystick on a remote-control was moved.
I found the experience unnerving and exhausting: I sought to step straight ahead but kept careening from side to side. Those alternating currents literally threw me off.
The technology is called galvanic vestibular stimulation _ essentially, electricity messes with the delicate nerves inside the ear that help maintain balance.
Guide to Reality: Strawson Continues His Journey
Strawson offers this definition of “Equal-Status Fundamental Duality monism” (ESFD monism for short):
Reality is substantially single. All reality is experiential and all reality is non-experiential. Experiential and non-experiential being exist in such a way that neither can be said to be based in or realized by or in any way asymmetrically dependent on the other (etc.)
Thursday, November 23, 2006
Reuters AlertNet - Altered cottonseed could feed millions -scientists
Scientists have found a way to use the cotton plant, long a source of fiber for clothing but inedible by humans, to feed potentially half a billion people a year.
Kinetic Sculptures: Wind Powered Robots at Ministry of Tech | Technology, Gadgets, Web 2.0
"Wind powered robot
Theo Jansen is the Dutch creator of what he calls “Kinetic Sculptures,” where nature and technology meet. Essentially these sculptures are robots powered by the wind only."
ATTEMPT AT INVISIBLE SPHERE
A"rtist attempts to build an invisible sphere. 215 monitors are placed directly opposite 215 cameras, allowing the viewer to peer directly through a eight hundred pound mass of steel, glass and electronics."
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Genpets.com
Say Hello to the all New Genpets™ from Bio.Genica!
The Genpets™ are Pre-Packaged, Bioengineered pets implemented today!
That’s right, Genpets are not toys or robots. They are living, breathing genetic animals.
BOMB Magazine: Marina Abramovic by Laurie Anderson
marina
Marina Abramovic, The House with the Ocean View, 2002-2003. Performance view. Photo: Steven P. Harris. Courtesy of the artist and Sean Kelly Gallery.
Lean In Close | Tribes
“Now,” says Steve, “Tribes has its own visual and text editors. I’m just the guru. The consultant.” Steve explains.
Tribes will be fifteen years this October. Steve and Co. have showcased nearly 400 artists in the gallery space on the second floor of a four story townhouse.
Monday, November 20, 2006
Sunday, November 19, 2006
Eric J. Heller Gallery || Random Sphere I
Sphere and Random Sphere show random superpositions of waves on the surface of a sphere. Random waves are the paradigm for quantum chaos. This is as close as quantum mechanics can come to chaos.
The Museum on the Digital Shoreline
The rhizome is that which: "connects any point to any other point, and its traits are not necessarily linked to traits of the same nature; it brings into play very different regimes of signs, and even nonsign states... It is composed not of units but of dimensions, or rather directions in motion. It has neither beginning nor end, but always a milieu from which it grows and which it overspills... The rhizome proceeds by variation, expansion, conquest, capture, offshoots... the rhizome pertains to a map that... is always detachable, connectable, reversible, modifiable, and has multiple entryways and exits"
Deleuze and Guattari
Violence — Poet Seers
One
Day
Too
Your
Inner
Violence
Shall listen
To loves wisdom
And bow to
Silence
By: silent lotus
Friday, November 17, 2006
Kenneth Patchen
The image before me when I mention your name is that of a gorilla with a heart of gold. I don't hesitate to add immediately that this name which you have chosen to mask your multi-faceted soul has become an obsession with me. It suggests cold dynamite lying carelessly on a beautiful lawn where children play at croquet with iron mallets. It suggests a perfidy so transparent as to become magnetic.
New Robot Shrugs Off Injury -- Wu 2006 (1116): 2 -- ScienceNOW
It looks like a four-armed starfish, but so far it's unaware of its own shape. After flailing its arms for a while, however, the robot gets a sense of its design and begins to walk. The real feat comes when engineers remove a part of its leg: The robot senses a change in its structure and begins walking in a different way to compensate. The demonstration is the first proof that a robot can generate a conception of itself and then adapt to damage, a handy skill to have in unpredictable environments.
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BLOOM - An Installation Project for the Massachusetts Mental Health Center by Anna Schuleit
BLOOM - An Installation Project for the Massachusetts Mental Health Center
by Anna Schuleit - 2003
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