Random news reading Science.com --> Washington Post --> Google News-ing, and then on the radio. Keep encoutering this topic:
Dark Energy is a force that makes the universe expand instead of contract
Is Dark Energy defying gravity? Or redefining it?
I don't know. I should read more things.
I'm writing now from my studio at Djerassi, looking down the green hills of the Santa Cruz Mountains that roll all the way to the ocean below. When it’s clear, you can see the water, which most of the time is obscured by a cool marine layer. It’s late afternoon, so light infuses the grasses, some of which are starting to turn to the gold these whole hills will be by summer’s end. Earlier this morning, fog pressed its gray shroud to the glass.
My third day in residence at Djerassi, I join fellow residents Wei and Daiane in their Tai Chi practice. I have only previously tried Tai Chi once, for twenty minutes, when it was part of an employee wellness demonstration years ago. Here on the mountaintop, I decide to try it as a form of exercise. I can’t do my customary lap swims here. I imagine it will be something like yoga. Good for my body, but also meditative.
Join Leonardo/ISAST at the annual SIGGRAPH conference this year!
Highlights from the ID. Exhibition at the La Biennale di Venezia. Leonardo's Managing Director Danielle Siembieda presented a lecture at the Science Gallery Venice on Portraits and Identity New Media Art Exemplars followed by a presentation on Mathematics, Art and Bubbles by scholar and Leonardo contributing editor Michele Emmer.
Antonio Asis, a pioneering Argentine postwar abstract artist known for his vibrant paintings and interactive kinetic art, died in Paris on March 30 after an illness. He was 87. Asis, born in 1932 in Buenos Aires, was a key member of the South American expatriate creative community who moved to Paris in the 1950s and to explore color and geometry to incite movement and vibration in art.
Over three years ago, Letiţia Bucur shared the devastating news with me: Sherban Epuré, her husband, suffered a spinal aneurysm. It meant, among other things, paralysis from the waist down and a never-ending succession of medical interventions. The artist was not prepared to give in. Living on borrowed time, he fully rededicated himself to his art.
As a result of more than 50 years of publishing work on the cutting edge, Leonardo has become the leading international peer-reviewed journal on the use of contemporary science and technology in the arts and music and, increasingly, the application and influence of the arts, design and humanities on science and technology.
According to author Simon Penny, Making Sense: Cognition, Computing, and Embodiment is about intelligence, cognition, and the impact of culture and technology. However, it is also a study in numerous contrasts, among them: biological being vs. computationally simulated being, civilian research vs. military research, representation vs performance, art practice vs. media practice, and mind-body dualism vs embodied cognition. “How do all these things fit together?” he asks, in the introduction.
To complement the release of the new title in the Leonardo Book Series, Weather as Medium: Toward a Meteorological Art by Janine Randerson, here are more readings from Leonardo publications on climate- and weather-related art.
