I had a really great time at Subtle Technologies. Unfortunately I couldn't attend today cause I had to work. This meant I missed Donald Specter's interpretation of Waiting for Godot which is a little bit sad, and Frederic P. Schuller's take on physics as a picture of reality, which is downright heartbreaking, but Friday and Saturday were still awesome. I was really happy with my own performance. There's not much I can say about it today ...still decompressing. I used an overhead projector which was utterly satisfying, and I had a giant head on plywood with video running in the brain and eyes. I'm working on a web version of the talk. This little gif of Oppenheimer crying rocks looks both more slick and more dorky on video. Hightlights of the conference for me included:
- Juan Gruer's talk in which he quoted Rilke in German and then translated saying (I paraphrase): creatures see clearly, but human eyes are like a trap, that turn inward, our thoughts and interpretations a boundary between us and the world.
- Rob Goodman's sophisticated meta-take on the impossibility of reconstructing the harmonics of brass vases which Vitruvius suggested were placed in Greek theatres to enhance accoustics.
- Olaf Dreyer's excellently articulated quantum theory that space is not fundamental. Also all kinds of stress from the audience about entanglement, which was both entertaining and informative.
There was lots more great stuff. I expect in the days to come I will be posting many trains of thought generated this weekend. The conference is a really precious, unique opportunity for art and science to bump into each other, and I'm still digesting it.
Also (important note) I plan to conduct my performative lecture again this summer so that those who were dissuaded by the fee might be able to come and check it out. Date & location TBA.
Hey, nice!! Sorry to have missed your talk. Will be there next time.
Today's Truism about Neutrinos:
"Neutrinos: You can run but you cannot hide."
new info I learned about neutrinos: there are about 200 of them passing through every cubic centimetre. Also, the chance that a neutrino will collide with matter in your body is about once in a lifetime.
So, in summation:
Neutrinos, they are very small. They have no charge and have SOME mass And do not interact at all. ... or perhaps once in a lifetime?
I googled the first line of the Updike poem and immediately got several links to your project with Gordon Hicks and Rebecca Diederichs. (you've sort of taken over that snippet of neutrino culture, haven't you)
hah. take that, you indifferent little buggers (neutrinos, I mean).
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I had a really great time at Subtle Technologies. Unfortunately I couldn't attend today cause I had to work. This meant I missed Donald Specter's interpretation of Waiting for Godot which is a little bit sad, and Frederic P. Schuller's take on physics as a picture of reality, which is downright heartbreaking, but Friday and Saturday were still awesome. I was really happy with my own performance. There's not much I can say about it today ...still decompressing. I used an overhead projector which was utterly satisfying, and I had a giant head on plywood with video running in the brain and eyes. I'm working on a web version of the talk. This little gif of Oppenheimer crying rocks looks both more slick and more dorky on video. Hightlights of the conference for me included:
- Juan Gruer's talk in which he quoted Rilke in German and then translated saying (I paraphrase): creatures see clearly, but human eyes are like a trap, that turn inward, our thoughts and interpretations a boundary between us and the world.
- Rob Goodman's sophisticated meta-take on the impossibility of reconstructing the harmonics of brass vases which Vitruvius suggested were placed in Greek theatres to enhance accoustics.
- Olaf Dreyer's excellently articulated quantum theory that space is not fundamental. Also all kinds of stress from the audience about entanglement, which was both entertaining and informative.
There was lots more great stuff. I expect in the days to come I will be posting many trains of thought generated this weekend. The conference is a really precious, unique opportunity for art and science to bump into each other, and I'm still digesting it.Also (important note) I plan to conduct my performative lecture again this summer so that those who were dissuaded by the fee might be able to come and check it out. Date & location TBA.
- sally mckay 5-30-2005 4:51 am
Hey, nice!! Sorry to have missed your talk. Will be there next time. Today's Truism about Neutrinos: "Neutrinos: You can run but you cannot hide."
- Tino (guest) 5-31-2005 5:29 pm
new info I learned about neutrinos: there are about 200 of them passing through every cubic centimetre. Also, the chance that a neutrino will collide with matter in your body is about once in a lifetime.
- sally mckay 5-31-2005 6:32 pm
So, in summation:
Neutrinos, they are very small. They have no charge and have SOME mass And do not interact at all. ... or perhaps once in a lifetime?
- L.M. 5-31-2005 6:51 pm
I googled the first line of the Updike poem and immediately got several links to your project with Gordon Hicks and Rebecca Diederichs. (you've sort of taken over that snippet of neutrino culture, haven't you)
- L.M. 5-31-2005 6:53 pm
hah. take that, you indifferent little buggers (neutrinos, I mean).
- sally mckay 5-31-2005 6:57 pm