PUBLIC MARKS with search science, camera, prosthetic_devices, vision, sight

After observing particular subcultures and ethnic groups, Nikki S. Lee adopts their general style and attitude through dress, gesture, and posture, and then approaches the group in her new guise. She introduces herself as an artist (though not everyone believes her or takes it seriously), and then spends several weeks participating in the group’s routine activities and social events while a friend or member of the group photographs her with an ordinary automatic “snapshot” camera. Lee maintains control of the final image, however, insofar as she chooses when to ask for a picture and edits what photographs will eventually be displayed.

l’espace urbain, à sa représentation, ainsi qu’aux créations et réappropriations de cet espace par les artistes et chercheurs. Il propose ainsi une veille pluridisciplinaire (Sciences de l’Information et de la Communication, Science de l’ingénierie, Ergonomie, Art, Architecture, Urbanisme, Géographie, Sociologie, etc.) sur les innovations technologiques (réalité virtuelle, réalité augmentée, réalité mixte, Internet et mobilité), les pratiques artistiques et les nouveaux usages dans les domaines de l’art, du jeu, du patrimoine et du tourisme.

Theme of the symposium was “la ville cartographiée” (the city map), and to give our contribute to the discussion, we were warmly welcome to the ‘Cité des sciences et de l’industrie‘; built in the 19th arrondissement, just beside Parc de la Villette, ‘La Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie’ is one of the world’s largest and most visited science museums, and looks as an impressive modern site which offers a wide variety of exhibitions and shows.

Infrastructure provides the basic needs for society, and sustainable infrastructure systems are essential for the survival, health and well-being of a society. For developing countries, the civil and environmental engineer are at the epicenter in seeking means to enhance human life through modernization of infrastructure as evidenced by provision of shelter, water, and transport, amongst others.

The current rate of urbanization and industrialization has caused a rise in environmental issues, involving environmental mismanagement which has been associated with unforeseen global catastrophes. The problems are further aggravated with environmental degradation such as soil erosion, depletion of water resources, etc.

In order to meet these multifaceted challenges, proper planning, implementation and verification exercises are required, via an integrated, multidisciplinary and holistic approach. The global momentum for sustainable development must now lead to practical applications of the engineering and science of sustainability.

This Timeline of 20th c. Art and New Media was created to include relationships between art, new media art, science, technology, war and media theory.

1977. Theodore Kaczynski – qui ne répond pas encore au surnom de « Unabomber » – s’isole dans une petite cabane du Montana où il esquisse les premières ébauches de son manifeste anticapitaliste et travaille à la conception de colis piégés. Dans le même temps, Paul Laffoley – qui ne sait pas encore qu’il va être enlevé par des extraterrestres – vit confiné dans les quinze mètres carrés de son atelier (le Boston Visionary Cell à Boston) où il peint The Renovatio Mundi, une vision du monde empreinte de références aux fondements de la science-fiction. Au même moment, Saddam Hussein – alors vice-président de la République d'Irak – recrute des sosies pour le remplacer lors de diverses apparitions publiques. La même année, pendant que Dieter Roth travaille à un projet de longue haleine, un inventaire photographique de toutes les rues et les maisons de Reykjavik (35'000 diapositives), Dark Vador envahit les écrans de cinéma exactement deux cents ans après que Napoléon Bonaparte a obtenu une bourse de l’école militaire de Brienne en Champagne.

Une logique commune traverse ces événements. Une logique que tente de décrypter CHASING NAPOLEON. S’appuyant sur les réflexions d’artistes, scientifiques et autres activistes, cette session révèle des systèmes de pensées visant à déplacer le centre de gravité de notre réalité et dessine des utopies qui ne se révèlent que sous la tension d’une traque incessante.

Project: smart.rockets

Date: Summer, 2006

Language: ActionScript 2

Key Concepts: Evolutionary computing, genetic algorithms, rocket science

Places & Spaces: Mapping Science is meant to inspire cross-disciplinary discussion on how to best track and communicate human activity and scientific progress on a global scale. It has two components: the physical part supports the close inspection of high quality reproductions of maps for display at conferences and education centers; the online counterpart provides links to a selected series of maps and their makers along with detailed explanations of how these maps work. The exhibit is a 10-year effort. Each year, 10 new maps are added resulting in 100 maps total in 2014.

A camera you can wear as a pendant to record every moment of your life will soon be launched by a UK-based firm.

The processing code for time lapse captures through the iSight camera with a static centered slit looks like this:

I bought a USB webcam off of eBay quite some time ago, and I decided to connect it to my telescope with a little bit of hardware hackery. I'll have to see about posting a writeup on how I did that at a later time. Anyway, when I installed my camera software, I quickly found how horrible the program was. It gave a tiny preview of what the camera saw, and had no way of capturing images or video without waaaay too many clicks of the mouse. That's when I decided to write my own in Python.

The architecture of science fiction has profoundly changed urban design. When building cities of the future, our best guides may be places like comic book megalopolises Mega-City-1 or Transmet.

Voici l’histoire d’un film qui n’a jamais vu le jour (comme tant d’autres). Un film dans lequel chaque protagoniste, et notamment le réalisateur, s’est investi corps et âme pendant plusieurs années. Un film qui se voulait l’adaptation, très personnelle, d’un des plus grand roman de science-fiction jamais écrit. Un film jamais réalisé. Voici l’histoire de l’adaptation de Dune par Alexandro Jodorowsky.