February 2012
9 posts
artbrain.org : a rare resource on anything... →
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“I feel that we are all philosophers, and that those who describe themselves as a...”
– Dr.Kevin Warwick : Scientist, Roboticist, Cyborg
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interesting neuropeople : Kevin Warwick
An interesting roboticist working on the direct communication btw machines and the human nervous system. As part of his Project Cyborg he inserted an RFID tag in his arm to control doors, light switches etc. Then he controlled a robotic arm via some computer interface via this tag . And then he had his wife implant the same chip so that they could have a technologically reinforced or enhanced...
“Neuroscience is the Sistine Chapel of Science”
– J.G.Ballard , Project for a Glossary of the Twentieth Century
Is your brain really necessary? | Science →
fuckyeahneuroscience:
12 December 1980: John Lorber, a British neurologist, claims that some patients are more normal than would be inferred from their brain scans.
“Professor John Lorber has a facility for making doctors sit up and think about hallowed concepts,” writes Adrian Bower, a neuroanatomist at Sheffield University, England, where Lorber holds a research chair in pediatrics. “The...
a crash course on skin sense! →
January 2012
6 posts
Sexology: Until 2009, the human clitoris was an... →
Humans have been studying one another sexually for thousands upon thousands of years. Yet for all that time spent diligently exploring one another’s anatomies, there remain many features of the human form that, until very recently, have gone uncharted —
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/... →
Genes or Environment: What Shapes the Sensory... →
“Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessels are...”
– http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/2889561.J_G_Ballard
December 2011
4 posts
pinaryoldas.info →
New website is up ! Check it out!
reading list #1 : Embodied Visions
WHY : Coz he talks about Antonio Damasio in relation to gaming !!!!
amazon
November 2011
9 posts
contemporary organic abstraction : janaina →
chimeric laputa
madame excess
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lunch with Jason Pred / conversation on Edelman ,...
Edelman proposes a biological theory of consciousness, based on his studies of the immune system.
October 2011
3 posts
shall we all read Stiegler ?
recollections flavor the mere primary sensations
recorded memory - tertiary memory
hollywood memories replace biological/physical memories
also what’s the amount of boring one can handle in a day?
is painting frozen music?
Saccades are the fastest movements produced by the human body. The peak angular speed of the eye during a saccade reaches up to 1000°/sec in monkeys (somewhat less in humans). Saccades to an unexpected stimulus normally take about 200 milliseconds (ms) to initiate, and then last from about 20–200 ms, depending on their amplitude (20–30 ms is typical in language reading). Under certain...
December 2010
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April 2010
3 posts
art.brain.future: catalyzing cultural progress...
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Eddo Stern giving an artist talk @ DUKE, apr 7th...
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March 2010
9 posts
WatchYour Intricately Sliced Mind Volume I : Reward
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Watchmorphing brains
In vivo imaging : Cracking the skull open
On a rainy Durham afternoon after getting my car fixed, I drove to Bryan research center , parked illegally and managed to find room301c where Dr.Richard Mooney’s lab was located.
The main goal of Dr.Mooney’s research is to understand the biological basis of learning. He focuses on in vivo imaging of neuronal structures of zebra finches. They use lentivirus/GFP (same family as HIV)...
A Dopamine-Laden meeting with Dr.Alison Adcock
Today I met with Dr.Alison Adcock, core faculty at CCN and the PI of “Motivated Memory Lab” . Here’s a sneak preview of what ” Motivated Memory Lab” focuses on:
“Research in the Adcock laboratory focuses on the neural systems that allow what we desire to influence what we remember, for better and for worse. We use functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (FMRI)...
“It must have been late 1941 or early 1942. Jews were required to wear the Star...”
– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Kahneman
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shock therapy #1
If extreme consumerism leads to environmental catastrophies can SCIENCE help ART fix the problem?
Welcome to “SHOCK THERAPY” , this is where wearable computing meets Pavlovian conditioning in order to help human race tame its inner consumer animal.
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Autistic mice @ Bryan Research Building room 103
Today’s talk was by Dr. Jacqueline N. Crawley titled : “Mouse Models of Autism to Test Hypotheses and Discover Treatments” . Dr.Crawley talked about sociability autism on one side of the spectrum and williams syndrome on the other . In her lab they use BTBR knockout mice.
“BTBR mice exhibit a 100% absence of the corpus callosum and a severly reduced hippocampal...
Brain Awareness Week @ Duke march 15th-21st
Working with brain imagery is challenging. You need to know that Purkinje cells are a class of GABAergic neurons located in the cerebellar cortex if you’re looking at Santiago Ramon Y Cajal’s drawings as a t-shirt design inspiration. Knowing your visual material well triggers new ideas , new ways of seeing. Here’s the main BAW logo / imagery. This poster implies 3Dness which is...
February 2010
12 posts
Darwin's Sexual Selection and Fab-u-la
I’m auditing Elizabeth Grosz’s class titled “Feminism and the Animal” . The class is currently my main source of inspiration for Fab-u-la and I definitely have a monster crush on Grosz.
I’ve been designing the species of excess for a long while and through the class the missing pieces of Fab-u-la are all coming together.It seems that everything that matters could be...
pollock + fmri = art+neuroscience+economics
It is a known fact that most aesthetic industries (architecture , fashion, 2d-3d design, fine arts) are based on a star system where there’s a positive correlation between the creator’s reputation and the value of works generated.
Taking Pollock as my focus -whose work has always polarized critics ( is his work art or painterly fart?)- I want to explore the effects of stardom...
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CHAT Festival 2010
I was a panelist at CHAT Festival this afternoon together with Adriana de Souza e Silva, Jesper Juul and Casey Alt. I presented “SPARTICLE”, “DEITI II” and Supermammal.Games are fun , games are cool, games are the future of art ?
snapshot of sensory processing →
the world needs more(and improved versions) of these
Ruth Day "Language-Based Cognitive Control?"
I was happy to make it to Ruth Day’s talk (C&CN lunchbox series) on time after a microcrisis generated by my water bottle exploding in my backpack severely damaging my iphone and my external harddrive.
Associate Professor Ruth S. Day has spent many years demystifying cognitive processes and everyday cognition . She’s one of those scientists who knows her subject so well that she...
Brain as Arcitectural Space
One of my microconsciousnesses keeps thinking about how to create architectural space inspired by brain morphology.
I’ve been inclined to using pneumatic structures to represent brain but has hit a brick wall as to how to manufacture it since the sulci and gyrus are problematic in terms of seams and folds.
Here’s an image that I think sheds some light on some of these technical...