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Aesthetically Speaking

posted on 05.2.2013 by

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A couple weeks ago, I sat in on a lecture at Columbia University that addressed four open questions in computer science. To be perfectly honest, due to a rather severe case of jet lag and a certain rustiness where math is concerned, I quickly lost interest as the professor began to delve deeper into the mathematics behind read more »
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conversations with artists

foray into the fourier

posted on 03.15.2013 by

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Josh Brechner is a Brooklyn-based producer // musician and the sole musical force behind the electronic act Visager. I met him last November when he performed for Brooklyn-based arts company Our Ladies, debuting some songs from his recently released 12-track album Heap, which dropped in February. Amidst all the pre-album-release chaos, Josh was kind enough to read more »
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mathematics // review

the biggest sound you’ve never heard

posted on 03.13.2013 by

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Despite having lived in New York for six years, I only first heard about The Dream House, now in its twentieth year, a few weeks ago. Tucked away in Tribeca, The Dream House is a sound + light environment designed by musician La Monte Young and visual artist Marian Zazeela. Not fully knowing what to expect, I ventured read more »
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conversations with artists

talking [body]sense

posted on 03.5.2013 by

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As part of an ongoing personal exploration into art + the artistic process, and in preparation for the second ArtLab event, I sat down with actor // performance artist [and co-founder // creative director of arts company Our Ladies] Sophia Treanor to talk about her creative process. As a result, after my conversation with Sophia, I read more »
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generative art // mathematics

fractaled atlas

posted on 02.25.2013 by

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No matter where we look in the natural world, we are sure to find recurring patterns everywhere. As a result, natural scientists devote their careers to [humbly] attempting to find and define these very patterns. The most abundant of these natural motifs is arguably the fractal—a geometric structure that can be subdivided into smaller parts that look roughly read more »
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evolution // generative art

evolution by aesthetic design

posted on 02.15.2013 by

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At its most basic, evolution is simply change over time. Since life is not stagnant, but perpetually moving forward, we can make analogies to evolution for just about anything we experience. But how can we use these analogies to glean something meaningful about our experiences? In an experiment called DarwinTunes, bioinformatician Robert MacCallum at Imperial read more »
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neuroscience // physiology

out on a limb

posted on 02.9.2013 by

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b.b. king + “lucille.” eric clapton + “blackie.” the bond between musician and instrument is sacred.1 if “music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life” [beethoven], then musical instruments are the mediator of that mediator. the vehicle through which the spiritual can be heard. but in order to fluently and fluidly communicate read more »
jeff elrod. echo painting [green]. 2012. Inkjet on canvas. Courtesy of the artist.

perception // review

[in]focus

posted on 01.25.2013 by

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new york-based artist jeff elrod paints abstractions using basic computer software through a technique he calls “frictionless drawing.” but it was not his technology-infused artistic process that struck me when i saw his latest exhibition—nobody sees like us—at moma ps1. rather, as i walked into the small, square room that displayed his work, i was read more »