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COURSE OVERVIEW DETAILS
Week
1: Sept 2
Trajectories
Assignment:
* Work Sample
Bring one sample of your best work
to class. This is not a critique, but a way to get to know each other and our
talents. (This does not necessarily need to be art.)
* Research Map
A map of where your current research resides and how you got there. (Your
work related influences, concerns, obsessions, studies, experiments,
successes, & failures (yes, mistakes can be our greatest allies!).
* Potential Trajectories
Some pencil sketches or rough ideas on where you want to be headed in your
research and ideas on what you may need to get there.
Reading:
none for today
Lecture:
What is integrated inquiry and creative
studio practice?
“Faith in philosophy means the refusal
to permit fear to stunt in anyway one’s capacity to think.” Horkheimer, Max in On
the Concept of Philosophy, German 20th Century Philosophy:
the Frankfurt School. Schirmacher, Wolfgang, ed., The German Library, 2000, p.
1.
“Horkheimer's
definition that a critical theory is adequate only if it meets three
criteria: it must be explanatory, practical, and normative, all at the same
time. That is, it must explain what is wrong with current social reality,
identify the actors to change it, and provide both clear norms for criticism
and achievable practical goals for social transformation. Any truly critical
theory of society, as Horkheimer further defined it
in his writings as Director of the Frankfurt School's Institute for Social
Research, “has as its object human beings as producers of their own historical
form of life” (Horkheimer 1993, 21).”
Research
Methods: Experimental, Correlation, Naturalistic Observation Survey, Case
Study http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/proj/res_meth/login.html
http://www.rpi.edu/web/writingcenter/handouts.html
Bibliometrics:
What are Bibliometrics?
Measures of a scientific writer's influence are called bibliometrics. Techniques for discerning this influence,
or impact, range from simple counts of publications to sophisticated
mathematical equations. Two of the most well-known bibliometrics
are the impact factor, typically applied to journals, and the h-index,
typically applied to authors.
What is
an Impact Factor?
The impact factor,
proposed by Eugene Garfield, is a ratio between citations and recent citable
items published. Thus, the impact factor of a journal is calculated by
dividing the number of current year citations to the source items published
in that journal during the previous two years by the number of published
articles in that journal during the previous two years. Journal
Citation Reports calculates and publishes the annual impact factors
for journals. A higher impact factor generally indicates that this journal's
articles have been cited more.
What is
an h-index?
The h-index was
proposed by Jorge Hirsch in 2005 as an alternative to the impact factor. The
h-index quantifies scientific productivity and the impact of a scientist
based on the set of his/her most quoted papers and the number of citations
that they have received in other people's publications. For example, an
author or journal with an h-index of 30 has written at least 30 papers that
have each had at least 30 citations. Thus, a higher h-index indicates
more publications that have been cited more often. This metric is useful
because it takes into account the uneven weight of highly cited papers or
papers that have not yet been cited.
http://nihlibrary.nih.gov/ResearchTools/Pages/bibliometrics.aspx
Some Potential Survey methods:
Historical
Approach
Qualitative
Analysis
Content
Analysis
Discourse
Analysis
Structural
Analysis
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Week
2: Sept 9
Approaches
Assignment:
* Potential Integrated Approaches to your Research
- One Page footnoted essay - Research
Trajectory Map: refining
- Preliminary Bibliography / Research Stimulants
Readings:
* The Culture
Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception by Theodor Adorno
and Max Horkheimer
http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/adorno/1944/culture-industry.htm
* Strategy, Tactics and
Heuristics for Research by Rob Tow
*We will be reading and discussing some of the emerging topics in The Stone
, a forum for contemporary philosophers on issues both timely and timeless:
- OPINION | August 15, 2010
The
Stone: Reclaiming the Imagination
By TIMOTHY WILLIAMSON
The human imagination is not just source of fiction
and fancy; it is integral to science, philosophy, and even our survival.
- OPINION | June 27, 2010
The
Stone: Lost in the Clouds?
By THE EDITORS
To some, philosophy is too esoteric to be useful.
To others, it's the basis of a good drinking party.
Lecture/Discussion:
Discuss readings in context of our production and in
broadening the conceptual range by which we contribute to our cultural
imagination.
- http://www.iep.utm.edu/adorno/
Collect research essays and look at
their content and citation.
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Week
3: Sept 16
Research Maquettes
Questioning Art/Science/Technology/Simulation
Assignment:
- In studio we will work on creating Maquettes of
our primary research thrust expressed in clay as we conduct a series of
exercises inspired by sculptor Antony
Gormley.
- start and/or continue refining your Bibliography of proposed
readings/screenings/web/ other experiences relevant to your research. Bring a
printed version of your working Bibliography to class.
Readings:
* Technopoly the Judgment of Thamus by Neil Postman
* The
Wonders of Man in the Age of Simulations By Roger Berkowitz
* Art and
Science as Cultural Acts from Information
Arts: Intersections of Art, Science and Technology by Stephen Wilson
Lecture/Discussion:
- look at the work of sculptor Antony Gormley
- create maquettes in studio
- Discuss Maquettes
after exercises are complete
- Discuss readings and the idea of artistic research and what the artist can
bring to bear on research across disciplines today and in the future.
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Week 4: Sept 23
Philosophical Ideas and Your
Research Part I
Assignment:
- consider potential philosophical approaches to your research
- read and discover where your thinking may emanate from
- make a list of potential philosophers that you feel are interesting to your
research
- start and/or continue refining your Bibliography of proposed
readings/screenings/web/ other experiences relevant to your research.
- Bring a printed version of your working
Bibliography to class
Readings:
* Western
Philosophy at a Glance
Plato:
* http://www.iep.utm.edu/plato/
(secondary source for contextualizing)
* Plato, Republic: X, the
organization of the state and the matter of poetry (original source)
Aristotle:
* http://www.egs.edu/library/aristotle/biography/
(secondary source for contextualizing)
* Aristotle: Poetics
(original source)
For further research see on-line
philosophical encyclopedias at:
- Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Stanford Encyclopedia of
Philosophy
Lecture/Discussion:
- Artist Philosopher
- Blended Realities (see: Blended Realties.ppt)
- Discuss philosophical ideas which may run through your research and through
current issues and emerging ideas
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Week 5: Sept 30
Philosophical Ideas and Your
Research Part II
Assignment:
- consider potential philosophical approaches to your research
- read and discover where you thinking may emanate from
- make a list of potential philosophers that you feel are interesting to your
research
- start your 10 page research paper due Oct 28
Readings:
Descartes:
* http://www.iep.utm.edu/descmind/
(secondary source for contextualizing)
* Descartes
(original source) (Latin: Cogito ergo sum) "I am thinking therefore I
exist." from the Discourse on Method
Spinoza:
* http://www.iep.utm.edu/spinoza/#H4
(secondary source for contextualizing)
* Spinoza Freedom
of Thought & Speech (original source)
Lecture/Discussion:
DESCARTES AND SPINOZA
“ The skeptical crisis of the early seventeenth century led
to philosophical reaction. Rene Descartes (1595-1650) one of the great
mathematicians, physicists, and philosophers of this period attempted to
refute skepticism. We read his work Meditations on First Philosophy. In
exploring the Meditations we learn about Descartes'
strategy for defeating skepticism. First there is the systematic effort to
determine what can and what cannot be doubted. This involves the method of
doubt and the method of analysis. Finally Descartes finds a series of truths
which he cannot doubt. These are the foundation on which he can build his
house of knowledge. The doctrine that there are self
evident truths whose certainty cannot be doubted and from which we can
build up the rest of our knowledge is foundationalism. The Meditations also
introduce us to the Cartesian way of ideas, representational theories of
perception, the machinery of substance, attribute and mode, the mind/body
problem, the Cartesian arguments for the real distinction between the mind
and the body, and several proofs for the existence of God among a variety of
topics.
From Descartes we turn briefly to Benedict de Spinoza in whose hands
the Cartesian system underwent an extraordinary transformation into a naturalistic
pantheism by way of a strict enforcement of the definition of a substance as
an independent existent. Spinoza argued that only God is a truly independent
existence, so bodies and minds cannot be genuine substances. If they are not
substances they must be modes of that substance. At one stroke Spinoza
eliminates the distinction between God and the creation and solves the mind
body problem by making the body and the mind aspects of the same substance.”
from http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/stories.html
The History of Western Philosophy
by Dr. Uzgalis
Artist
Philosopher pp Lecture
Prep
for visit to Visualization class next WED
Some
ideas:
Broad ideas:
* What do we wish to visualize as a culture, as a society,
or as an individual? And why?
* Can computer visualization express some of the physical,
intellectual, emotional, and spiritual aspects of the human condition?
* Can computer visualization be used in new types of theatrical
set design?
* Can we imagine physically flying through visualizations
of pertinent relevant data to an issue or idea, be it scientific or artistic?
Our ideas:
Can there be "intermingling" of computer
visualization and artistic research in areas such as the ones we are working
on in Advanced Integrated Arts:
* Explorations of Non-Discursive Media and Communication,
(without words, sharing meaning directly),
* Experimental Photography outside of Realistic Mimesis,
("processed" photojournalism)
* Minor Culture and Cinema, (experimental cinema that is
outside of mainstream Hollywood, showing the amazing in the everyday)
* Social Impact Games (games with a social message),
* Developing a Control System video game/ride immersive
experience that allows the player to navigate any number of 3D virtual worlds
while suspended in mid-air in a flying harness of x, y & z coordinates.
* Creating empathic visualization and simulation systems
to enable non-colonizing understanding of another human being. Enabling a
person to visualize how their worldview was formulated based on their culture
and experience of the world.
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Week 6:
Visualization Experiment
Wed Oct 6
(Please note we will be meeting on Wed Oct 6, 10:30am
to 12pm in Amos Eaton 215, with Prof. Barb Cutler’s Visualization class in
Amos Eaton)
Oct 7 Thursday we will
meet in our usual location WH 210 from 4 to 5:30
Assignment:
- Visualize your research ideas
Working with students in computer science visualization and on our own we
will envision new ways of digitally visualizing our research concepts,
constructs, data, etc.
- continue working on your 10 page research
paper Oct 28
Readings:
http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~cutler/classes/visualization/F10/calendar.html
read some of the syllabus, delving into some of the readings which you find of interest to your research
thrust.
Lecture/Discussion:
WikiLeaks
The controversial website WikiLeaks collects and
posts highly classified documents and video. Founder Julian Assange, who's reportedly being sought for questioning by
US authorities, talks to TED's Chris Anderson about how the site operates,
what it has accomplished -- and what drives him. The interview includes
graphic footage of a recent US airstrike in Baghdad.
WikiLeaks Julian Assange:
Why the world needs WikiLeaks wiki
leaks
Data mining:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,587546,00.html
http://www.cwire.org/data-mining-using-google/
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Week 7: Oct 14 not
meeting, but
will be meeting in NYC Oct 15
Field Trip to NYC
itinerary:
* 11:30 AM Oct 15 CASE / Center for Architecture Science and Ecology,
14 Wall Street 24th Floor, New York, NY 10005 meeting with Professor Anna
Dyson
* Taxter
& Spengemann Gallery
459 W. 18th St. New York, NY 10011 (between 9th and 10th
Aves.)
* David Zwirner Gallery
525 West 19th Street NYC (between 10th Ave. and West St.)
* Nicholas
Robinson Gallery
The Interrupted Image to October 23
535 West 20th Street NYC (between 10th Ave. and West St.)
* Bitforms Gallery
Yael Kanarek Notyetness to Oct 15, 2010
529 West 20th Street 2nd Floor (between 10th and 11th)
New York, NY 10011
* Bruce Silverstein Gallery
Beyond COLOR:
Color in American Photography 1950-1970
535 W. 24St NYC (between 10th
Ave. and West St.)
* Alexander Gray Associates
Melvin Edwards
to October 16
508 West 26 Street #215
(between 10 and 11th Aves.)
New York NY 10001
* Gering & López
Gallery
John F. Simon, Jr.: innerhole to October 23, 2010
730 Fifth Avenue, NYC (Between 56th and 57th Streets)
Assignment:
* continue working on your 10 page research
paper due Oct 28
Readings:
http://www.case.rpi.edu/home.html
& Materialab:
http://www.arch.rpi.edu/built_ecologies/faculty_anna.html
http://www.rpi.edu/dept/NewsComm/Magazine/fall03/feature1-3.html
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2004/10/materialabs_win.php
Kant
* Kant
(original source)
* http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-mind/
(secondary source for contextualizing)
Lecture/Discussion:
creative dialogs
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Week 8: Oct 21 instead of class this week we will meet on Friday, Oct 22 at Bard College 9:45 am Sosnoff Theatre, Fisher Center
for “Human Being in an Inhuman Age” part
of the Hannah Arendt Center for Ethical and Political Thinking at Bard
College is hosting an international conference
http://www.bard.edu/hannaharendtcenter/conference2010/
travel info: http://fishercenter.bard.edu/visitor/#travelbycar
Assignment:
* read and come
prepared for the conference
* feel free to
join the Conference Event Facebook page where a number of articles and videos
that address questions central to the conference themes are posted:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=108378639193263&ref=ts
* continue
working on your 10 page research paper due Oct 28
Readings:
* Hannah Arendt:
general overview: http://www.egs.edu/library/hannah-arendt/biography/
more in depth: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/arendt/
interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzdthMhvkTE
* Center for Ethical and Political
Thinking blog: http://www.hannaharendtcenter.org/
* BUSINESS DAY
| June 13, 2010
The
Futurist and His Followers
Singularity University attracts some of Silicon
Valley's smartest and wealthiest for its executive programs. Earlier this
year, participants paid $15,000 for a nine-day course to discuss advances in
nanotechnology, artificial intelligence bio-tech and robotics.
Lecture/Discussion: the conference proceedings
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Week 9: Oct 28
Assignment: Research paper due reflecting your work
to date, complete with proper citation. This is 20% of your grade (10 page
properly cited and footnoted in The
Chicago Manual of Style)
Readings:
Jean Luc Nancy
bio
Jean Luc Nancy: The Inoperative
Community (original source)
Lecture/Discussion:
Review of research papers
Lecture by JL Nancy
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Week 10: Nov 4
Assignment: Counter-thinking
Readings:
* Paul Virilio
- (secondary sources for contextualizing:)
http://www.egs.edu/faculty/paul-virilio/biography/
- (original source) Expect the
Unexpected in Art As Far As You Can See
* Jean Baudrillard:
(secondary sources for contextualizing:)
- http://www.egs.edu/faculty/jean-baudrillard/biography/
- http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/baudrillard/
(original source:) - Symbolic Exchange
and Last Word
* Vandana Shiva philosopher, environmental
activist, eco feminist, argues for the wisdom of many traditional
practices, and ecological sanity. Author of many books and articles including
Water Wars; Privatization,
Pollution, and Profit and Soil Not Oil .
The Role of Patents in the Rise of
Globalization
http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/global/vshiva4_int.html
http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/global/vshiva3.html
* Sheila
Jasanoff Science, Technology, & Society. The politics of
science not only in a comparative but also in a global context
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/sci;328/5979/695
Lecture/Discussion:
What is real? What will be left of what is real?
Why a Perpetual War?
Water
Garbage Garbarge Ocean
Addicted
to Plastic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_rS1WJL6so&feature=player_embedded
No ecosystem or segment of human activity has escaped the shrink-wrapped
grasp of plastic. What eventually happens to all the plastic in water
bottles, packaging, and hundreds of other everyday uses? This documentary
offers a visually compelling, entertaining, ultimately frightening
explanation.
artists’
response
Rensselaer’s response switch
to Single-Stream Recycling http://sustainability.rpi.edu/ssr/singlestream_poster-1.pdf
Cute: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh4F3sZNLqA
WM: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_RWqgXcP_k
U.S. | May 27, 2010
An
Environmental Disaster Unfolds
A collection of photographs, from the explosion on
April 20 through the weeks of efforts to plug the leak.
N.Y. / REGION
| August 16, 2010
In
Brooklyn Store, Everything Is Always 100% Off
By COLIN MOYNIHAN
Organizers of the Free Store in Bedford-Stuyvesant
say it demonstrates the feasibility of recycling and offers an alternative to
mainstream capitalism.
Consumption: BUSINESS
| August 08, 2010
But
Will It Make You Happy?
By STEPHANIE ROSENBLOOM
How you spend has a greater effect on your happiness than how much you spend,
researchers say.
SCIENCE |
August 10, 2010
Portugal
Gives Itself a Clean-Energy Makeover
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL
Portugal's experience in converting to renewable
power shows that rapid progress is achievable, but it also highlights the
transition's price.
Econopocalypse:
the Marxist animated whiteboard explanation
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/07/04/econopocalypse-the-m.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
SCIENCE
| June 07,
2010
An
Inflatable Space Station
In four years, a small company called Bigelow Aerospace is to launch a
private space station that will be leased to governments, companies and perhaps
space tourists.
Clicktivism
is ruining leftist activism
Reducing activism to online petitions, this breed of
marketeering technocrats damage every political movement they touch
Avatar director James Cameron
joins Amazon tribe's fight to halt giant dam http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/18/avatar-james-cameron-brazil-dam
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Paul Virilio http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtCL0bnqxpQ
http://www.egs.edu/faculty/paul-virilio/videos/questions-for-virilio/
Jean Baudrillard
http://www.egs.edu/faculty/jean-baudrillard/videos/the-disappearance-of-the-real/
http://www.egs.edu/index.php?id=27457&part=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKipprpjqkk&feature=watch_response
Vandana Shiva: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi1FTCzDSck
Sheila Jasanoff: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uybNKfoBgA
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Week 11: Nov 11
Assignment:
Reconstruction & Refinement Map
Readings: Guest Scholar Prof. Mei Si from Cog Sci
formerly of Center for Advanced Research in Technology for Education
USC Information Sciences Institute, now here at Rensselaer,
THESPIAN:
An Architecture for Interactive Pedagogical Drama
Lecture/Discussion:
6:30 to 7:50pm Mei Si, Assistant Professor of
Cognitive Science Rensselaer,
Professor Si’s Research Interests are in Interactive
Narrative/Serious Game, Social Computing, Human-Computer Interaction, Emotion
Modeling and Recognition, Health Intervention, Multi-Agent System and Machine
Learning.
Professor Si has the
following background:
Ph.D. Computer Science, University of
Southern California, 2009 Thesis: Thespian:
A Decision-Theoretic Framework for Authoring and Simulating Interactive
Narratives Advisor: Stacy C. Marsella
M.S. in Computer Science, December 2001, University of Arizona
M.A. in Experimental Psychology, December 2000, University of Cincinnati
B.S. in Experimental Psychology, June 1998, Peking University (P.R. China)
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Week 12: Nov 18
Assignment:
Final Project Action Plan
Readings:
Judith Butler
(secondary sources for contextualizing)
Judith Butler Giving
an Account of Oneself (original source)
Lecture/Discussion:
* Judith Butler biovideo
* Judith Butler, feminist philosopher lecturing about "Primo Levi
for the Present"; narrative accounts, forgiveness, holocaust, Auschwitz,
victims, execution, war, and crime, while asking the question: "What is it to give an Account of
Oneself?".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjFZHfTJRUM
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TECHNOLOGY
| August 16, 2010
Your
Brain on Computers: Outdoors and Out of Reach, Studying the Brain
By MATT RICHTEL
Five scientists spent a week in the wilderness to
understand how heavy use of technology changes how we think and behave.
TECHNOLOGY |
August 02, 2010
Your
Brain on Computers: The Unplugged Challenge
The New York Times asked for volunteers who were
willing to give up technology for a period of time and tell us about the
experience. Here is a selection of their stories.
TECHNOLOGY | June 01, 2010
Juggling
the Screens
For the Campbell family, technology, on screens big
and small, plays a role in many of life's moments.
TECHNOLOGY
| June 07, 2010
An
Ugly Toll of Technology: Impatience and Forgetfulness
By TARA PARKER-POPE
"We're paying a price in terms of our
cognitive life because of this virtual lifestyle," one expert says.
July 25, 2010, 5:26 pm
The Limits of the Coded World By WILLIAM EGGINTON
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/the-end-of-knowing/
August 4, 2010, 2:45 pm
Freedom and Reality: A Response By WILLIAM EGGINTON
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/04/freedom-and-reality-a-response/?hp
BUSINESS
| August 21, 2010
Facebook
Feels Unfriendly Toward Movie It Inspired
By MICHAEL CIEPLY and MIGUEL HELFT
Founder Mark Zuckerberg
has been locked in a standoff with the filmmakers over the tale of the social
network.
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Synesthesia * from a recent artists’ call from Art Laboratory Berlin
Synesthesia, a blend of the two Greek words “sensation” (“*aisthesis*”) and “together” or “union” (“*syn*”), implies the experience of two, or more,
sensations occurring together. In almost all the cases it is a visual
sensation caused by auditory stimulation (see John E. Harrison: *Synesthesia.The Strangest Thing*. Oxford, 2001).
In history we find a strong interest in synesthetic perception during
certain periods such as the Renaissance, the Romantic era, the end of the
19th century (e.g. Rimbaud, Wagner) and especially at the beginning of the
20th Century. Not only did the young generation of avant-garde artists
experiment with the effect of simultaneous stimulation of the senses (color
and sound in Kandinsky), but even involved the audience. The Italian futurist
Marinetti, for example, proposed so-called tactile dinner parties, where the
guests were wearing pajamas covered with special tactile materials (sponge,
cork, sandpaper, felt) and were sprayed with perfume between courses.
“How do interrelations across different senses – synesthesia – express
themselves in the two domains of perception and language? First in
perception, synesthesia reveals itself in responses to light and color
and
form, to sound, to touch, taste, and smell. To a synesthetic perceiver,
music may produce visual images whose shape, brightness and color follow the
music’s melody, harmony and tempo” – see Rimbaud’s “le déreglement
de tous les sens”
(Lawrence E. Marks: Synaethesia. Perceptin and
Metaphor. In: ,
Aesthetic Illusion. Berlin 1990).
How are we confronted with this phenomenon of synesthesis
in the late 20th and early 21st century?
Art Laboratory Berlin is interested in works that investigate different
combinations of sense perception, and its interaction with memory, the
brain, and connections between various artistic and scientific disciplines.
Of special interest would be work that involves smell, or taste in
combination with sound and the visual. Also of interest would be work that
investigates people who experience synthesia in
their daily life (e.g.
famous synesthestes such as Rimsky Korsakov or Nabakov) or artists
investigating their own synesthetic experiences.
Time and Technology *
The development of new technologies over the past 25 years has greatly
influenced the way we live our lives. The personal computer with its graphic
user interface (GUI), the internet, mobile telephones have revolutionized the
way we work and communicate. How has this all affected our sense of time? On
one hand new technologies have made communication cheaper and more
efficient. On the other hand in many countries working hours have increased,
and the line between working time and leisure has been blurred.
The science of genetics is altering the speed of evolution. Computers carry
on actions in time spans that are so small that they are incomprehensible to
the human mind. The market place demands more productivity in shorter time
periods; while medicine promises to expand our life span.
*How exactly are these technological advances influencing our sense(s) of
time?
Art Laboratory Berlin is interested in works that investigate how the
technological changes of the last 25 years have changed and influenced our
perception of time, as well as how we structure our time, plan our days, and
live our lives. How do these changes alter our biology? What are the
conflicts between different ‘types of time:’ biological, subjective,
objective, social, etc.? What is the contemporary connection between time and
space – actual space, virtual space vs. actual time and virtual time? How
will these changes affect our future as a society and as a species?
http://www.artlaboratory-berlin.org
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Week 13: Nov 25
OFF for THANKSGIVING
Assignment:
Final Project
Readings:
research readings and Theodore Adorno,
The
Schema of Mass Culture
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Week 14: Dec 2
Assignment:
Final Project
Readings:
research readings and
The Philosophy of Change
Naturalism of
Wang Ch'ung
Lecture/Discussion:
review Theodore Adorno, The Schema
of Mass Culture
an artistic interpretation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hb91jErnw0
why Adorno is relevant:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_-Uz_qpy4g
Completion of Pre review of project
and final papers
6:30 to 7:50pm Mei Si, Assistant
Professor of Cognitive Science Rensselaer
Part II: her work, and a preliminary discussion of Chinese Philosophy
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Week 15: Dec 9
Assignment:
Final Project
and Fully revised and completed 10 page cited research paper due
Readings:
All research readings due
Lecture/Discussion:
Final Presentation of Projects and Papers
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Other potential readings of interest:
Yin Yang Confucianism: Tung Chung-shu
Ernst Cassirer (secondary source for context)
Cassirer, Toward a Theory of the
Concept (original source)
Cassirer, The Foundations of Scientific
Knowledge
Hardt /Negri,
Long March of Democracy
Maurice Merleau-Ponty (secondary source)
The
Primacy of Perception (original source)
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