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Facial Expression Inherent or Cultural
Relavists – facial expressions akin to language and learned within each culture. Darwin(1872) – facial expressions of emotion are inherent. Certain facial movements were acquired to serva a biological adapture function. Their association with emotion over time has become innate. Darwin states that there is a difference between facial expressions of emotions, which are innate ...
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Ekman
Ekman diagram looking into the way that a persons facial expression develops with environment/ cultural variability. Eckman agrees with Darwin stating that there are 2 rules for controlling facial expression. One which is Universal and the other that is culturally different. Ekman’s research goes on to explain key basic facial expressions that occur biologically universal ...
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Emblems
Looking into Paul Ekman (Adrians suggestion). Perfect research for developing humanities project and raises many interesting points on body language and facial expression. This is proving to support our current work into slowing down emotional responses of participants thinking about different emotions drawing upon their previous experiences. The participant bringing their response to the piece ...
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Aaron Koblin
Just found a really interesting connection between some of new participatory web experiences thanks to Brigitta. So it seems that this guy Aaron Koblin is involved in most of the new music and data visualisation projects coming out. lets just say that he is a bit of a ninja. “the culture of the 21st century will ...
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The Internal Retreat from Shared Public Space
Looking at how we close ourselves of in public spaces such as the subway (metro) and retreat into using devices such as Ipod, mobile phone … both intrusive yet solitary, only one person engaged … unless you are “lucky” enough to have a gang of young persons in tracksuits play their favourite tunes at a ...
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thinking
May 17th 2011: Thinking, after the quick discussion about the upcoming deadline in last weeks thinking session I feel more confident about getting the piece done and the content. However I am a bit nervous about the deadline, it feels a quite close to me so I will work on it as much as possible…
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YoungBlood part6
Artist as Ecologist “Since it generally is thought that art represents the avant-garde of human insight, it is interesting to note that science itself has evolved through Form, Structure, and Place appreciably in advance of the arts.” FORM-The affect of the Naturalist Philosophers … Democritus coined the term ATOM for substance that made everything, this without ...
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Device Art
“What we call deviceart is a form of media art that integrates art and technology as well as design, entertainment, and popular culture…..technology is at the core of artworks.” West and East difference in appreciation of artwork…… “being critical does not necessarily require being serious ornegative towards technology. This issue is deeply rooted in each ...
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World Game
Article from http://www.bfi.org/about-bucky/buckys-big-ideas/world-game In the 1960′s Buckminster Fuller proposed a “great logistics game” and “world peace game” (later shortened to simply, the “World Game”) that was intended to be a tool that would facilitate a comprehensive, anticipatory, design science approach to the problems of the world. The use of “world” in the title obviously refers ...
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pre-easter update
Doing – I originally had quite a few ideas for my arduino project (the one most did before christmas but Im still catching up) I set up some parts to just have a look at the basic method as its been a long time since I’v used arduino, I have not decided what my project…
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Accursed Share (Vol1) Bataille
Bataille’ text looks at the abundance of energy within the ecosystem and how its abundance creates new organisms (the sun). Also looks into loss/ waste of such energy and how we have at our disposal more energy than is needed…. curious as we as humans are still fighting over fossil fuels when science and technology ...
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Materialism Expanded and Remixed
In any case, these developments are 1) Real, 2) Pressing and 3) They severely limit (or in the case of nonlocality, profoundly undermine) a materialism consisting of little shiny pingpong balls, bundled with the attitude of subject–object dualism…….how human beings progress to a point at which they are ready to drop the shiny pingpong balls might look paradoxically like a ...
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THINKING 4 – 23/03/11 – Art & Science 2: The Philosophy and Science of Experience
Art & Science 2: The Philosophy and Science of Experience Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s approach to consciousness and embodiement Reading Material: Page 3-12 http://www.scribd.com/doc/4877219/M-MerleauPonty-Phenomenology-of-Perception
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Manovich – Interaction as an Aesthetic Event
“Aesthetization of information tools” – how our tools when removed from the working environment have taken on new consumer driven characteristics – “friendly, play- ful, pleasurable, aesthetically pleasing, expressive, fashionable, signifying cultural identity, and designed for emotional satisfaction” “designers no (…)
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THINKING 3 – 09/03/11 – What is Consciousness? Consciousness Studies and Applied Philosophy
Art & Science 1: What is Consciousness? (Atau/Brigitta) Introduction into the philosophical and scientific concept of cognition Descartes, Body-Mind problem Cognitive Sciences, Scientific Methods Reading: Susan Blackmore – Consciousness: An I…
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Thinking
Just to catch up a bit as I am just about getting the hang of blogging as I tend to just writing thoughts down to refer to. I have been reading theory for a few years now, though much out of picking pieces to read my self and getting the odd recommendation. A lot of what…
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Jean Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulation
The reading for our Thinking session later today is Jean Baudrillard’s utterly enigmatic Simulcra and Simulation. I have to say that I found it totally impenetrable and rather pretentious! Unfortunately I have no tolerance for pretentiousness and I maintain the (…)
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Baudrillard Simulcra and Simulation
Thinking Reflection Before I began the reading I thought it apt to have a little look into what Baudrillard wrote about, his thinking etc. I came accoss several new words – epoch (new word for me – time reference) and (…)
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Heidegger Reflection
Alas having no internet for 2 weeks has caused me to get behind on updating posts but here we go!!! Heidegger On reflection of the work of Heidegger I am going to look at the computer mouse, buildings and the (…)
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Heidegger’s Camera
This is my response to the following assignment: Apply one of the concepts of the Philosophy of Technology 1 & 2 sessions. Reflect on your practice or other scholarly/artistic/desing work. I’ve decided to reflect on Heidegger’s thinking and consider my (…)