will-self.com: Will's Room

Memory experts show sleeping rats may have visual dreams - MIT News Office

"...neurons activated when the animal experiences an event while awake

reactivated during sleep."

To understand the Universe we must start from the here and now.

"Quantum mechanics forbids a single history."

Thomas Hertog

CERN, Geneva

'Vegetative' patient shows signs of conscious thought

Nature: 13 September 2006; | doi:10.1038/443132b

Rumi - Selections of his poetry from Allspirit

my beloved grows
right out of my own heart
how much more union can there be

HPCR

"Human security - a complement to state-centric security models with a focus on individual and community needs as an important guarantor for sustainable peace and stability."

Jana Sterbak

Condition contrainte, Carre d'Art, Nimes, France,
20.10.2006 -- 07.01.2007

Hans Rosling on TED Talks

"Hans Rosling is professor of international health at Sweden's world-renowned Karolinska Institute, and founder of Gapminder..."



Rosling:"The improvement of the world must be highly contextualized..."

Luminetx - VeinViewer

Nicola Hicks

"When...really working..It becomes clear, pure thought that is flowing out of me through my hands and into the work..."
pg. 72, Nicola Hicks, Momentum, GB, 1999

Mr Toledano - Phillip Toledano Photography

Helen Fisher

"...research on the evolution and
future of human sex, love and marriage and gender differences in the brain
and behavior."

Juxtapoz

50 Things We Know Now (That We Didn't Know This Time Last Year) 2006 Edition

#32. Just 30 minutes of continuous kissing can diminish the body's allergic reaction to pollen, relaxing the body and reducing production of histamine, a chemical cell given out in response to allergens.

HHMI News: Neuron's "Hardware Store" Discovered

"...building materials that nerve cells use to construct new connections during learning..sac-like organelles called endosomes..."

What Is an Event?

"...with Leibniz the question surges forth in philosophy that will continue to haunt Whitehead and Bergson: not how to attain eternity, but in what conditions does the objective world allow for a subjective production of novelty, that is, of creation? The best of all worlds had no other meaning: it was neither the least abominable nor the least ugly, but the one whose All granted a production of novelty, a liberation of true quanta of "private" subjectivity, even at the cost of the removal of the damned. The best of all worlds is not the one that reproduces the eternal, but the one in which new creations are produced, the one endowed with a capacity for innovation or creativity: a teleological conversion of philosophy."



Gilles Deleuze, The Fold, Leibniz and the Baroque, translated by Tom Conley, the University of Minnesota Press, 1992.

Intelligent Robotics Laboratory -Ishiguro Lab.-

location one | in the sky, by leesa and nicole abahuni

"an exploration into the sharing of the senses"

Mission Statement of BLTC Research

"BLTC RESEARCH was founded in 1995 to promote paradise-engineering. We are dedicated to an ambitious global technology project. BLTC seek to abolish the biological substrates of suffering. Not just in humans, but in all sentient life."

Song of Songs 2 / Hebrew - English Bible / Mechon-Mamre

טז דּוֹדִי לִי וַאֲנִי לוֹ, הָרֹעֶה בַּשּׁוֹשַׁנִּים. 16 My beloved is mine, and I am his, that feedeth among the lilies.

SCC4: POVRay Short Code Contest #4

Glass sculpture
Artist: Juha Nieminen
Size: 256 bytes

xvivo Medical Animation and Medical Illustration

The Inner Life of the Cell

Soul by stanza....2004 -06. A series of artworks based on visualizing the environment.

toxi -- "base26" : Built with Processing

HUMUMENT.COM - The Official Site of A HUMUMENT by Tom Phillips



"A HUMUMENT is a treated book by British artist Tom Phillips

based on the Victorian novel 'A Human Document' by W.H. Mallock."

La Chambre Blanche-- les rapprochements

Rachel Echenberg

"Je place l’image de mon corps dans le « non-espace » derrière l’écran. Vous, vous vous déplacez dans l’œuvre à partir de votre propre environnement...."

Soundsuit, 2006 by Nick Cave presented by Jack Shainman Gallery

Soundsuit, 2006

BIT: index(BIT)

"public audio database of civil liberty infringements and other antiterror events"

Willy LeMaitre Eric Rosenzveig

The Appearance Machine :an autonomous system for generating cinema

Lubber -- Luanne Martineau

NeurobiologyA channel sets the gain on pain : Article : Nature

"Cox et al.¹ have now discovered SCN9A mutations that cause a loss of Na_v1.7 function in three families from Pakistan. Their observations link loss of Na_v1.7 function with a congenital inability to experience pain..."



Nature 444, 831-832 (14 December 2006) | doi:10.1038/444831a; Published online 13 December 2006
Neurobiology: A channel sets the gain on pain

Robert Bringhurst:

"...speaking is much older and more universal than writing. It seems to me a better venue, much of the time, for the evanescent, mutable agelessness that is apt to distinguish a poem.....It makes good sense to me that a book about oral literature should be spoken before it is written, and written to be spoken, not just read."



*~



"They went to sleep .

Then he skinned the child, starting at the feet,

and crawled inside the skin.

He took the baby's place."



(p.284, Raven Travelling in "Being in Being", trans. R. Bringhurst)

Kelly Lab -- Nano car

Perspecta: Actuality Systems

Floating, hologram-like, interactive imagery.

IO2Technology: Heliodisplay/ Interactive Free-Space Display

A close-up of a fish under office lighting in which the Heliodisplay is concealed

into a coffee table using a customized external projection configuration.

Tate Liverpool | Jake and Dinos Chapman | Disasters of War

"Goya's series of 83 prints Disasters of War 1810-20 are the

basis for all of the works in this room. The portfolio was made

as a commentary on the Napoleonic invasion of Spain in 1808

and its aftermath, and is a damning reflection on the horrors

and atrocities of war."

SlaveCity

Atelier van Lieshout


Midi Disciplinator
2005

Olafur Eliasson

Lava floor 2002


Museé d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris

tanya bonakdar gallery :: exhibitions

Ernesto Neto 21 Oct 2006 - 25 Nov 2006

The Bug 1.3

Motors - Pager motors with OTU (Over Timer Unit) gearbox.

Circuit - Two suspended bicores hooked acting as a master - slave.

Batteries - Two Ni-MH 3.6V 60mA hooked in series.

Heliotrack.com - Heliostats and solar tracking

"...solar heliostats that are guided by optical solar tracking electronics. The analog solar tracking circuit controls two mechanical actuators that move a mirror plane in two axes. The mirror plane will reflect the sun to a stationary target during the day and then return to a preset morning position after sunset. The tracking electronics are capable of tracking the sun with sub degree accuracy"

electronic life forms

"...elfs are small, analog creatures reacting to light..."

TXTual Healing

mobile technology

Thorsten Schimmel - Fine Art Photography

"Nose is a nose, is a nose, is a nose"

How to grow an Orangina bottle

"10 calories of oil is needed

to produce 1 calorie of food.....

2012. The ability to genetically enhance plants to grow plastics is realized."

Gecko's feet inspire super adhesive | COSMOS magazine

Linda Gregg - The Art of Finding

"I believe that poetry at its best is found rather than written...."

BMBF: Writing with the Mental Typewriter

Robert Shields, World's Longest Diary [Transcript]: Radio Documentary by Sound Portraits

"In his diary, Robert Shields records everything he eats. He records his blood pressure and pulse at various times during the day, the temperature outside and in, every conversation he has, every piece of junk mail he receives. He sleeps no more than two hours at a time so that he can record his dreams."

Bodies in Biotechnology by Jennifer Willet: Vol 14 No 7 - 8 November 2006 - Leonardo Electronic Almanac

art will b: "....all that is wet, bloody, unruly, and animal, from mass imaginations of the biotech future..."


Image: " inthewrongplaceness " Copyright Kira O'Rielly

CTheory.net

"Machines everywhere. Desiring-machines, production-machines, abstract machines of faciality, organ-machines, energy-source machines. A fantastic density of machinic values that traverses the social field, and within which subjectivity most of all enters into a theatre of death decoded of its memories, deterritorialized of its means of reproduction, and decontextualized. "



Deleuze and Guattari: Two Meditations, Arthur Kroker, 1995

A CRY FOR MADIOM

emergency feeding program

The Pinocchio Theory

"Delany has long written about the ways that “paraliterary” genres can accommodate possibilities foreclosed in more mainstream and “proper” forms of literature." --Steven Shaviro

1 year performance video - please watch for one year

I-20 Gallery :: Spencer Tunick :: Düsseldorf 1 (Museum Kunst Palast) 2006

PingMag - The Tokyo-based magazine about "Design and Making Things" » Archive » Twilight Zone: Dr. NakaMats’ inventions

Paul De Koninck Laboratory

epigenetics --Endocrinology (Journal)

"Transient exposure of a gestating female rat during the period of sex determination to the endocrine disruptor vinclozolin (ie anti-androgenic endocrine disruptor used as a fungicide in the fruit industry) induced an adult phenotype in the first F1 generation of breast tumors, prostate disease, kidney disease, immune abnormalities and premature aging. These adult onset diseases were transferred through the male germ-line to 85% of all males of all subsequent generations examined (ie F1-F4). "

In other words, pollution's effects on the body can be inherited. It's called epigenetics.

Cytowic on Synesthesia synaesthesia and the Brain

An — esthesia = “no sensation”

Syn – esthesia = “joined sensation”

HubbleSite - NewsCenter - Hubble Finds Evidence for Dark Energy in the Young Universe (11/16/2006)

"...top row of images point to the supernovae. The bottom row shows the host galaxies before or after the stars exploded. The supernovae exploded between 3.5 and 10 billion years ago."

Cai Guo-Qiang

American Civil Liberties Union -- Ghost Plane

"...Khaled El-Masri, an entirely innocent victim of rendition who was released without ever being charged."

Salon Technology | Howl.com

"I saw the best minds of my occupation destroyed by venture

capital, burned-out, paranoid, postal,



dragging themselves through the Cappuccino streets of Palo Alto

Dawn looking for an equity-sharing, stock option fix,



HTML-headed Web-sters coding for the infinite broadband

connection to that undiscovered e-commerce mother lode in the

airy reaches of IP namespace,..."



Thomas Scoville, March 22, 2000

gvozdi

The Antikythera Mechanism

An Ancient Greek Computer June 1959 Scientific American article p60-7

:: jackbooks.com :: Leigh Davis

Text of Creative Writing Lecture at Auckland University (October 2005 ) (0.5MB PDF)