is. was. whatnot.

James Turrell - Bindu Shards (2010)

“I am placed on a sliding medical bed and locked into the sphere. And it begins.

A relaxed ambient expanse of blue is shattered by high-speed flashing that rapidly becomes an ever-changing pattern of flowers, crystals, galaxies, quasars and nebulae.

Then I see a cityscape of vertiginous skyscrapers, with no earth below. All these forms and volumes that pulse and metamorphosise are defined by colours that change convulsively – the most intensely saturated greens and reds you can imagine, colours that seem solid, then burst into microscopic patterns of oranges, blacks, gold and misty white; all these colours bubble and whir at breakneck speed, as if you were in a particle accelerator.

But the most important part of the experience is that you do not know what is inside and outside your head. I saw a space, or rather an ever-changing succession of spaces, but these were independent of any actual material reality – they existed only in my head.

What the perceptual cell does is bombard you with flashing lights to trigger the mind’s eye by exploiting a perceptual phenomenon called the Purkinje effect. The whole of space seems compressed into your skull.”

Centre for Sensory Studies

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 12:50:20 -0500

Centre for Sensory Studies

xmodal

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 12:49:53 -0500

xmodal

Here’s to you Deb…. Remembering Debora Anne Miller....

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 12:36:40 -0500

Here’s to you Deb…. Remembering Debora Anne Miller. An incredible friend and artist, a powerhouse of a woman.

Rhizome | Prosthetic Knowledge Picks: WebGL

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:41:26 -0500

Rhizome | Prosthetic Knowledge Picks: WebGL

(via Patti Smith’s Cover of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” ...

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 22:43:59 -0500

(via Patti Smith’s Cover of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” | Open Culture)

Extra Senses, Extra Interference | ArtScience: April 2009

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 01:17:07 -0500

Extra Senses, Extra Interference | ArtScience: April 2009

(via Testing Spacesuits Retronaut |

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 01:06:25 -0500

(via Testing Spacesuits Retronaut |

First Emoji Book in the Library of Congress

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 01:00:13 -0500

Hallelujah i am alive to see this.

motherjones:

usagov:

The Library of Congress recently added its first all emoji book to its collection, “Emoji Dick” by Fred Benenson which is a retelling of “Moby Dick.”

Emoji are the little symbols like smiley faces and hearts that you may have seen used in text messages or on social media.

Benenson funded his book through a Kickstarter campaign and then had thousands of people translate one sentence of Moby Dick into emoji.

Michael Neubert, a recommending officer for the Library of Congress’ collections, said, “There is, in the literal sense, no other book in the Library’s collections like it. What is striking for the Library’s collections about this work is that it takes a known classic of literature and converts it to a construct of our modern way of communicating, making possible an investigation of the question, ‘is it still a literary classic when written in a kind of smart phone based pidgin language?’”

Learn more about the Library’s acquisition of “Emoji Dick.”

So this happened.

imaginebusproject: Bruce Nauman, “Failing to Levitate in the...

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 00:48:05 -0500

imaginebusproject:

Bruce Nauman, “Failing to Levitate in the Studio”, photograph, 1966.

Photo

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 18:44:19 -0500

myampgoesto11: Time-lapse light photography by Caleb...

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 14:07:34 -0600

myampgoesto11:

Time-lapse light photography by Caleb Charland

Atomic Model, 2008

Helix with matchsticks, 2005

Bouncing pen light, 2008

Cube with Ruler and Penlight, 2007

Fifteen Hours, 2006

nevver: Happy International Women’s Day Nuff said.

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 02:07:25 -0600

nevver:

Happy International Women’s Day

Nuff said.

Smithson’s 10 points of difference between Sites and...

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 01:04:43 -0600

Smithson’s 10 points of difference between Sites and Nonsites.