The Universality of 3D?
Seems to me “three dimensions” is simply a mathematical notion, defined as three directions which are separated by 90 degree angles. The 90 degrees mean that these dimensions are independent and that...
View ArticleCity Planning and Theory of Creativity
I was thinking a few months ago, after seeing a lecture on urban planning, that it would be interesting for a scientist who studies creativity and an urban planner to collaborate. Literally grouping...
View ArticleWhy scientific knowledge is not the same as Truth
Models always throw away information, and can only ever be approximations: “Bonini’s paradox: models or simulations that explain the workings of complex systems are seemingly impossible to construct:...
View ArticleThe Big Bang Singularity
If the universe started in a big bang, and the initial singularity had infinite density, then why are there clumps (planets, galaxies, stars, etc.) in the universe? Don’t clumps require a nonuniform...
View ArticleThe ownership of ideas and the “Unoriginal Genius”
The following was inspired by an interview on CBC Radio’s Spark with Marjorie Perloff. When you write poetry you’re using words you did not invent (though you could) to convey some idea. Likely you...
View ArticleOOP notions for graphic design components.
I over heard some designers on the bus last night talking about having to create 70 designs for the same layout and how much of a pain it was. It reminded me of this idea I had back when I worked on a...
View ArticleTrue Environmental, Financial and Cultural Sustainability
There seem to be two main uses of the term sustainability: environmental and financial. Since I am a touch of an idealist I think of sustainability in a broad scope. For something to be sustainable it...
View ArticleAuto Attribution in Remix Culture
In a panel discussion regarding copyright at ISEA Istanbul (2011) it occurred to me that beyond the corporate and monetary aspects of copyright is the notion of attribution, the acknowledgement that...
View ArticleOn The Conservation of Technological Culture
It is true that digital representation is very abstract and easily lost, but the same goes for any other ‘written’ representation. All meaning is context dependent. It’s very hard to make anything...
View ArticleAbstraction and Meaning(Human vs Machine Creativity)
I have said that my interest in art, and my approach to art making, is not in terms of the traditional role of artistic “expression”, but rather art is used as a methodology to explore “expression”, or...
View ArticleAttention and Prediction
After watching this video, I was inspired to think about attention in relation to the Integrative Theory that has been developed during this research project. There is something very interesting in the...
View ArticleWhat is Language?
I think language begins with the ability to perceive two sensory patterns that are different (because they are always different) as the same. I think of this as a clustering process, the carving of...
View ArticleWhat is The Difference Between Human and Non-Human Animals?
So what causes a non-human animal to empathize? I’ve been thinking a lot about how humans and non-human animals differ. I’ve come to the conclusion that there are two major differences: I believe...
View ArticleAbstraction and The Singularity
It seems that one of the foundational ideas of the singularity is that the machines we build will exceed our intentions and act in ways beyond our will and control. Now, I do see how machines act in...
View ArticleVirtuosity and Stability in Technology
I was trained in fine arts with liberal studies in philosophy. While I’ve always (as long as I can remember) been negotiating with media and technology I was never formally trained (indoctrinated?) by...
View ArticleThe (non)user and The Consumer Appliance
The “end user” is the person a particular technology utility is targeted toward. If the technology is a phone, then it’s the person using the phone to make phone calls. Traditionally, a user would buy...
View ArticleIndoctrination Machines
I was looking at the upcoming Prix Ars application process and realized that there was not really a place for my (generative) work. I looked over at the Interactive Art section to see how broadly it...
View ArticleBasic income and the world’s “carrying capacity”
The following is an edit version of a comment posted to Google+ in response to a post by Matthew J Prince discussing the possibility of a basic minimum income to solve the problems of increasing...
View ArticleInceptionism
A few people have emailed me to ask what I think about this, the method used to generate the image above. So I thought I would post the synthesis of my thoughts here. I was asked because my Ph.D. was...
View ArticleOculus Rift at Convergence
The following was originally posted on Google+ on Dec 18th, 2014. I experienced the Oculus Rift at Convergence in Banff a few weeks ago and meant to post my reflections. First, a little background:...
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