samedi 26 janvier 2008
forum de discution sur l'éthique actuelle
Voici un forum de discution sujet de l'éthique et la philosophie actuelle. Niveau doctorat? Version anglaise. Super intéressant!!! Bonne source d'infos.
http://www.ethics-etc.com/
http://www.ethics-etc.com/
vendredi 25 janvier 2008
Une conférence à voir le 28/01
Voici une conférence prometteuse :
http://www.ciam-arts.org/archives/archives_ciam/2008_01/ConfNormanWhite/index.htm
Résumé :
Norman T. White - "THE HELPLESS ROBOT AND OTHER FIASCOS"
EV 11.705
1515 Saint Catherine West
Concordia University
Montréal (Québec)
28 janvier 2008 à 19 h
**Veuillez notez que M White présentera en anglais
Dans le cadre de cette conférence, la première du cycle Geek-Concordia, ce pionnier de l’art robotique passera en revue ses dix dernières années de travail.
Fasciné par l’idée que les machines peuvent être imprévisibles et mener leur propre vie, régie par des règles et des cycles internes qui leur permettent d’être autonomes et d’avoir des comportements surprenants, M. White construit des dispositifs cinétiques qui, bien que dépourvus d’intérêt visuel, ont une grande dimension comportementale. Leur comportement tient en partie du matériel employé dans leur construction (composantes électroniques, moteurs, poulies, engrenages, etc.) qui a tendance à s’user et donc à se détériorer. Pour M. White, la robotique est une forme de portrait aux innombrables possibilités d’introspection, mais aussi une forme
d’ironie, de satire et de critique sociale d’une puissante intensité dramatique.
http://www.ciam-arts.org/archives/archives_ciam/2008_01/ConfNormanWhite/index.htm
Résumé :
Norman T. White - "THE HELPLESS ROBOT AND OTHER FIASCOS"
EV 11.705
1515 Saint Catherine West
Concordia University
Montréal (Québec)
28 janvier 2008 à 19 h
**Veuillez notez que M White présentera en anglais
Dans le cadre de cette conférence, la première du cycle Geek-Concordia, ce pionnier de l’art robotique passera en revue ses dix dernières années de travail.
Fasciné par l’idée que les machines peuvent être imprévisibles et mener leur propre vie, régie par des règles et des cycles internes qui leur permettent d’être autonomes et d’avoir des comportements surprenants, M. White construit des dispositifs cinétiques qui, bien que dépourvus d’intérêt visuel, ont une grande dimension comportementale. Leur comportement tient en partie du matériel employé dans leur construction (composantes électroniques, moteurs, poulies, engrenages, etc.) qui a tendance à s’user et donc à se détériorer. Pour M. White, la robotique est une forme de portrait aux innombrables possibilités d’introspection, mais aussi une forme
d’ironie, de satire et de critique sociale d’une puissante intensité dramatique.
dimanche 20 janvier 2008
artiste "futuriste":Norman White à Concordia le 28 Janvier
GEEK-CONCORDIA
Titled "Geek-Concordia", this series explores a diverse range of
idiosyncratic approaches to art and technology. Each artist could be
said to be a bit of a "geek": all have highly personal, hands-on and
materials driven methods of creating work, and are significantly self
taught.
In some way, each artist allows traces of their process to remain
visible in the final work, whether the open circuit boards and wire
tangles of Jessica Field's robotic zoo animals or the very homemade,
wonderfully cobbled together cameras of Donald Lawrence's underwater
pinhole photography practice. Each artist has a developed a "vernacular
mode of aesthetic inquiry" (Donald Lawrence) and may be described, to
borrow a phrase from Diana Burgoyne, as an "electronic folk artist".
NORMAN T. WHITE
"THE HELPLESS ROBOT AND OTHER FIASCOS"
January 28, 7pm
EV 11.705, 1515 Saint Catherine West, Concordia University
In this talk, the first in the Geek-Concordia series, pioneering
robotics artist Norm White will give an overview of his work from the
past few decades.
White is fascinated by the idea of mechanical devices which have
unpredictable "lives of their own":sets of internal rules and cycles
which give them autonomous and surprising behaviors. He builds kinetic
devices that have deliberately minimal visual appeal, yet a strong
behavioral dimension. Their behavior derives partly from the materials
employed (electronic components, motors, pulleys, gears, etc) and the
tendency for such materials to wear and break. For White, robotics has
become a form of portraiture, rife with myriad possibilities of
introspection, irony, drama, farce, and social commentary.
Artist Biography....
Norman White moved to Canada in 1967, where he embarked upon an intense
self-education in electronics. In the decades that followed, he went on
to create a series of logic-based "machines" which expressed themselves
through light, sound and motion. Many of these artworks have found their
way into important public collections, including the National Gallery of
Canada and the Vancouver Art Gallery. He has exhibited in shows
thoughout Europe and North America, the most recent major shows being
"Machine Life" (2004) at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre in Kingson,
Ontario, and "Norm's Robots" (2004) at the the Koffler Art Centre in
Toronto, Ontario. In 1990, he was awarded an Interactive Art Prize
("Auszeichnung") at Ars Electronica, and in 1995, the Petro-Canada Award
for Media Arts. From 1978 to 2003, White taught at the Ontario College
of Art & Design, where he helped to initiate a programme dedicated to
teaching electronics, mechanics, and computer programming to artists. He
now teaches similar courses at Ryerson University in Toronto.
**********
For more information, please contact
Laura St.Pierre
CIAM Concordia Project Coordinator
EV 11.429, 1515 Saint Catherine Street West
514.848.2424, ext. 5773
lstpierr@alcor.concordia.ca
ciam-arts.org
Titled "Geek-Concordia", this series explores a diverse range of
idiosyncratic approaches to art and technology. Each artist could be
said to be a bit of a "geek": all have highly personal, hands-on and
materials driven methods of creating work, and are significantly self
taught.
In some way, each artist allows traces of their process to remain
visible in the final work, whether the open circuit boards and wire
tangles of Jessica Field's robotic zoo animals or the very homemade,
wonderfully cobbled together cameras of Donald Lawrence's underwater
pinhole photography practice. Each artist has a developed a "vernacular
mode of aesthetic inquiry" (Donald Lawrence) and may be described, to
borrow a phrase from Diana Burgoyne, as an "electronic folk artist".
NORMAN T. WHITE
"THE HELPLESS ROBOT AND OTHER FIASCOS"
January 28, 7pm
EV 11.705, 1515 Saint Catherine West, Concordia University
In this talk, the first in the Geek-Concordia series, pioneering
robotics artist Norm White will give an overview of his work from the
past few decades.
White is fascinated by the idea of mechanical devices which have
unpredictable "lives of their own":sets of internal rules and cycles
which give them autonomous and surprising behaviors. He builds kinetic
devices that have deliberately minimal visual appeal, yet a strong
behavioral dimension. Their behavior derives partly from the materials
employed (electronic components, motors, pulleys, gears, etc) and the
tendency for such materials to wear and break. For White, robotics has
become a form of portraiture, rife with myriad possibilities of
introspection, irony, drama, farce, and social commentary.
Artist Biography....
Norman White moved to Canada in 1967, where he embarked upon an intense
self-education in electronics. In the decades that followed, he went on
to create a series of logic-based "machines" which expressed themselves
through light, sound and motion. Many of these artworks have found their
way into important public collections, including the National Gallery of
Canada and the Vancouver Art Gallery. He has exhibited in shows
thoughout Europe and North America, the most recent major shows being
"Machine Life" (2004) at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre in Kingson,
Ontario, and "Norm's Robots" (2004) at the the Koffler Art Centre in
Toronto, Ontario. In 1990, he was awarded an Interactive Art Prize
("Auszeichnung") at Ars Electronica, and in 1995, the Petro-Canada Award
for Media Arts. From 1978 to 2003, White taught at the Ontario College
of Art & Design, where he helped to initiate a programme dedicated to
teaching electronics, mechanics, and computer programming to artists. He
now teaches similar courses at Ryerson University in Toronto.
**********
For more information, please contact
Laura St.Pierre
CIAM Concordia Project Coordinator
EV 11.429, 1515 Saint Catherine Street West
514.848.2424, ext. 5773
lstpierr@alcor.concordia.ca
ciam-arts.org
vendredi 18 janvier 2008
Theo Jansen le 23 janvier, Concordia,gratuit
The Defiant Imagination Lecture Series 2008, Jan. 23 - Feb. 27
The Faculty of Fine Arts presents The Defiant Imagination Lecture Series 2008.
This dynamic lecture series brings together innovators of the critical imagination to explore the role of art in contemporary society.
Lecture #1: Theo Jansen - Strandbeest
When: Wednesday, Jan. 23, 6:00 p.m.Where: D.B. Clarke Theatre, 1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd.,
W.Admission is free.
Artist and kinetic sculptor, Theo Jansen has been called a modern-day Da Vinci. Trained in Science at the University of Delft in the Netherlands, Jansen creates large-scale kinetic sculptures that are a fusion of art and engineering. Jansen’s interest in technology and the process of biological evolution have led to his development of his own creatures.
His animals (“Strandbeests”, or” beach animals”, as he calls them) are enormous skeletal, complex mobile structures made out of plastic pvc tubes that use computer programs to calculate their movements. Powered by the wind, these creatures, which have evolved through several generations, walk, flap, roll, and discern obstacles. Eventually, Jansen hopes to ‘release’ his animals in herds where they can live out their own lives.
To learn more about Theo Jansen’s Strandbeests,"http://www.strandbeest.com/">visit his website
The Faculty of Fine Arts presents The Defiant Imagination Lecture Series 2008.
This dynamic lecture series brings together innovators of the critical imagination to explore the role of art in contemporary society.
Lecture #1: Theo Jansen - Strandbeest
When: Wednesday, Jan. 23, 6:00 p.m.Where: D.B. Clarke Theatre, 1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd.,
W.Admission is free.
Artist and kinetic sculptor, Theo Jansen has been called a modern-day Da Vinci. Trained in Science at the University of Delft in the Netherlands, Jansen creates large-scale kinetic sculptures that are a fusion of art and engineering. Jansen’s interest in technology and the process of biological evolution have led to his development of his own creatures.
His animals (“Strandbeests”, or” beach animals”, as he calls them) are enormous skeletal, complex mobile structures made out of plastic pvc tubes that use computer programs to calculate their movements. Powered by the wind, these creatures, which have evolved through several generations, walk, flap, roll, and discern obstacles. Eventually, Jansen hopes to ‘release’ his animals in herds where they can live out their own lives.
To learn more about Theo Jansen’s Strandbeests,"http://www.strandbeest.com/">visit his website
jeudi 17 janvier 2008
De la philo, des histoires de GPS et vêtements pare-balle à l'école
- Infos sur l'origine philosophique du transhumanisme:"A history of transhumanist tought by Nick Bostrom"
http://jetpress.org/volume14/freitas.html
1700 ans av. J.-C. les Sumériens parlaient déjà d'une quête de l'immortalité avec Gilgamesh (un roi). C'est avec la période des Lumières que la raison, matière et science sont vraiment apparus dans la mentalité sociale. Francis Bacon publiait en 1620 Novum Organum "the new tool" où il proposait d'utiliser la science dans le but de maîtriser la nature et d'améliorer la condition de vie des êtres humains.
- J'ai entendu ceci cette semaine: au Brésil, vu les mutiples enlèvements et la violence, il devient de plus en plus populaire d'envoyer ses enfants à l'école vêtus de vêtements par-balle et de GPS (à l'intérieur de leur corps)... Au cas où... Vérification de faits??? Avez-vous des infos? pour l'instant voici un lien vers une ligne de vêtements par-balle à la mode en Colombie:
/reportage/20060313.FIG000000057_les_vetements_pare_balles_de_caballero.html
mercredi 16 janvier 2008
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