Richard Feynman – Jiggling Atoms – It’s Fun To Imagine! (Blog Link)
Richard Feynman describes the movement of atoms in a fantastically simple way.
Richard Feynman – Jiggling Atoms – It’s Fun To Imagine!
Prof. Richard Feynman describes the movement of atoms in a fantastically simple way. He explains a bouncing ball with such enthusiasm and excitement as a lesson that science is about the joy of imagining things. Feynman has been credited with pioneering the field of quantum computing and introducing the concept of nanotechnology. During his lifetime, Feynman became one of the best-known scientists in the world. In a 1999 poll of 130 leading physicists worldwide by the British journal Physics World he was ranked as one of the ten greatest physicists of all time.
Molecular vibration by danceroom Spectroscopy (dS)
David Glowacki discusses molecular vibration using danceroom Spectroscopy (dS). Fusing 3d imaging and rigorous molecular physics, dS transforms people into energy fields and lets them wander through the nano-quantum world, where they trigger sounds and images.
Virtual Connections
Lisa May Thomas is a dance artist trained at Laban London and specializes in working with the moving image. Starting points come from her observations on the moving human form and a curiosity around the language of the body and of the stories, memories and experiences it contains. Her practice is led through somatic enquiry, improvisation and authentic movement techniques. She has worked substantially with new technologies, specifically with Interactive Scientific on the project ‘danceroom Spectroscopy’, a multi-award winning Sci-Art collaborative project which explores new languages and crossovers on the interface of physics research, interactive arts, education, performance and technology.
Raven Kwok Algorithmic Videos
Raven Kwok (aka Guo, Ruiwen) is a visual artist, animator and creative programmer, whose artistic and research interest mainly focus on exploring generative visual aesthetic brought by computer algorithms and software processes. Here are a few videos of Raven Kwok’s work –
Code as Muse videos (blog link)
Featuring : Cybernetic Serendipity (ICA) – Late Night Lineup (1968) …………….. The story of Cybernetic Serendipity Music ……………. Karl Sims: Evolving Virtual Creatures with Genetic Algorithms……………. Thomas Ray: Project Tierra ……………. Robert Rowe: Iannis Xenakis and Algorithmic Composition.
Code as Muse videos
Featuring : Cybernetic Serendipity (ICA) – Late Night Lineup (1968) …………….. The story of Cybernetic Serendipity Music ……………. Karl Sims: Evolving Virtual Creatures with Genetic Algorithms……………. Thomas Ray: Project Tierra ……………. Robert Rowe: Iannis Xenakis and Algorithmic Composition.
Aesthetically Evolved Virtual Pets
“Aesthetic, emotional, and empathetic selection are applied to a derivative of Karl Sims’ Evolved Virtual Creatures. The resulting Creatures can be beautiful or strange, and provoke strong reactions in human observers. It may be possible to evolve virtual pets to which humans can form strong emotional bonds.” From 1990 to 2001, Thomas Ray conducted research on digital evolution, which means exploring what happens when evolution by natural selection is embedded in the medium of digital computation. This work began with the creation of ‘Tierra’, a system in which self-replicating machine code programs evolved by natural selection. In 2000, he implemented a new system called ‘Virtual Life’. In 2014, his ‘Aesthetically Evolved Virtual Pets’ video was runner-up in the Virtual Creatures competition at GECCO.
Tor-Finn Malum Fitje: Phonautograph (2015)
Tor-Finn Malum Fitje is a Norwegian artist based in Stockholm, Sweden. His projects are typically manifested through narratives in video and sound, although textual production is likewise an evident aspect of this process. His activity borders scientific research, a position strongly reflected in the finished artworks. Questions regarding the nature of sensory and linguistic reproductions, of metaphors and cognition, of myth and physical theory, and of poetry and the natural sciences, are reoccurring subjects of interest.
Flickering Phrontisterion
In this interactive, participatory artwork the Brainwaves of participants are monitored whilst experiencing a Dream Machine, invoking the phenomena Flicker via neurofeedback. Emergent sonic guides and voices recede, new ideas come to the fore. The resulting Hypnagogic & Hypnopompic brainwaves are fed-back to the participant, and change the sonification. In a secluded space, eyes closed, reclined in an air-pumped Dentist chair, they float back down, where time disappeared – experiencing Reverie, increased Theta waves. Feedback has shown increased relaxation, refreshed creativity and non linear thinking.