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| Wow. fMRI science is full of intrigue. Last year Edward Vul, et. al opened up a bag of worms when they published a paper called "Puzzlingly High Correlations in fMRI Studies of Emotion, Personality, and Social Cognition." It was originally titled "Voodoo Correlations in Social Neuroscience," which is more in keeping with the tone of the paper. They had noticed that a whole rash of fMRI studies on emotion, personality, and social cognition — all hot topics that tend to get lots of attention in the popular press — had both astoundingly high numbers and slight methodology sections. So they undertook to try and figure out how those numbers were being arrived at. Their claim is that many of the studies used a kind of circular inference that was skewing the data. Ed Vul's website is great. He's posted the original paper, plus a whole pile of critical response and follow-up research here. |
| Links for the participants in the Art & Science Exhibition: Libby Hague Doug Jarvis Gareth Lichty Abigale Miller Elissa Ross & Patrick Ingram Allison Rowe Also, click here for documentation of all the projects from the Art & Science Fair we held in May featuring Abigale Miller, Alexander Moyle, Allison Rowe, Ariana Andrei and Reagan Brown, Arthur Konok, Brian White, Bridget Moser, Chris Bennett, Doug Jarvis, Elissa Ross and Patrick Ingram, Emily Comeau, Emily Cook, Erika James, Erika Lincoln, Gareth Lichty, Gene Mastrangeli, Heather Carey, Students and teacher of The Student School, Iris Hea-Won Cho, Jesse Robertson, Ken Leung, Laura Paolini, Lauren Hall and Ed Barsalou, Libby Hague, Linda Fitz, Lisa Smolkin, Mari Tsylke, Martin Reis, Michael Enzbrunner and Allison McCall, Miki Rubin, Niki D’Amore and Emilie Dionne, Patrick Beh, Reynaldo Padua, Ryan Thorne, Sarah Peebles, Susan Bustos, Tagny Duff, and Willy Le Maitre. |
| Join us! Too Cool For School
Art & Science Exhibition A Fresh Ground new works Project November 13, 2010 - January 2, 2011 Opening Friday, November 12, 6-10 pm Harbourfront Centre 235 Queens Quay West, Toronto Featuring: Libby Hague, Doug Jarvis, Gareth Lichty, Abigale Miller, Elissa Ross & Patrick Ingram, and Allison Rowe (curated by Patrick Macaulay and Sally McKay)  Art & Science Exhibition An exhibition of installations that engage visitors in unique explorations into the intersections of art and science. Contemporary art and science are both disciplines that sometimes seem unapproachable from the outside. And yet there is a little bit of art and science woven into many aspects of daily life. This playful, interdisciplinary show attempts to break down these boundaries and spark new forms of dialogue for the exhibitors and gallery visitors alike. The practice of art and the practice of science have many things in common —careful observation, knowledge-sharing, and the processes of perception and understanding are common themes throughout this exhibition. The particpants come from diverse backgrounds — art, science and mathematics. They engage in hybrid combinations of open-minded exploration, a sense of play and rigorous design. Like scientific experiment, art offers a material process through which to learn about the world. Each of these participants has created a unique experiment. The results may be more qualitative than quantitative, but every project has its own specific method. The interpretation of these art & science findings is up to the viewer. For more information, visit us at www.artandsciencefair.ca  Too Cool For School is part of Fresh Ground new works, Harbourfront Centre's national commissioning programme. The project has two components. The first was the Art & Science Fair on May 8, 2010 in Harbourfront Centre's Brigantine Room. The second is an exhibition of select projects curated from the fair, to be held in the fall of 2010in Harbourfront Centres York Quay Galleries. For more information about Fresh Ground new works please join us at www.harbourfrontcentre.com/whatson/freshground |
| Artist Diana Thater writes a rip-roaring report detailing her personal, ongoing battle with a certain group of LA art critics (David Pagel, Christopher Knight and Dave Hickey). Snippet describing a panel in 1997: "Artists in the audience came up to the microphone to speak and all took the opportunity to voice their own frustrations with the attitude of the art critics in LA toward the artists. Why was it so mean? So personal? Why was the worst of the curatorial criticism reserved for female curators? Why was any medium other than painting automatically 'conceptual'?" |
Scary: Just in time for Hallowein, the incomparable Ms. Gracie Jones:
Corporate Cannibal:
Libertango (Ástor Piazzolla)
Slave to the Rhythm! (Citroën CX Car Advert)
