Research

ideas, progress reports, inspirational quotes, book reviews … all things related to my current research interests

rainbow_refractionRefraction Reflection Refraction

A rainbow is an optical and meteorological phenomenon – thus, a rainbow is not an object, and cannot be physically approached.

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hyperTalking Hyper

Late 2011 Rachel Lovelock Yeomans – a fashion designer graduate from Central Saint Martins – sent me interview questions about my project HYPER and the abstract concept of the fourth dimension.

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eeg-20120914-034208Frequency bins

Study of brainwave activity during different sleep stages, as measured with the Zeo Sleep Manager and with the help of ZeoLibrary. One of the screenshots the ZeoLibrary takes every half hour while i am asleep. Monitoring and Recording I use …

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Scientific Knowledge and a New World-View

A collection of quotes from scientists and thinkers, on how to combine a scientific world-view with your daily life.

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sleep-zq-20120813-205045More Sleep Graphs

Mid-Sleep time, average sleep states and temperature mappings

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20120724_224304Adventures in Sleeping

Since fall 2011 I own a Zeo Sleep Manager. Every night I put on a headband that has a sensor resting against my forehead.

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time-01A Time of its Own

Experiments with time dilation using custom-made electronic clocks.
Clock objects – electronic toy and thought experiment at once – let us encounter the exaggerated effects of motion onto time within the limits of our perception.

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tad12-3-01-01Thought Experiments / February 2012

I failed again at thing-a-day, the February 2012 edition. My plan was to come up with a new thought experiment every day – Feb 1st to 29th – but that was obviously too big a challenge.

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twobarriers-01Intuition, Subliminal Perception and the Subconscious

Our subconscious knows more, sees more and hears more than we do. About Intuitions, Experiments Below the Awareness Threshold, and Free Will.

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markfellWhy Algorithmic Visuals Ruin My Music Experience / Elektra 2011

I tend to say that the music was only really good, if you didn’t notice the visuals at all. Electronic music often comes packaged with algorithmic visuals. When i look at anything that originates from code (or COULD originate from …

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Planetary MotionThe Conspiracy Against Absoluteness

The speed of light’s mystical behavior prohibits the discovery of an absolute reference point.

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peripheralHacking the Mind

Where i review the book “Mind Hacks” and list some of those.

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Necker CubeAn Oscillating Reality Battle!

The ambiguous Necker Cube causes a subjective spontaneous multistable perception which leads to involuntary oscillation.

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processing JS screenshotDo Computers Hallucinate Electric Sheep?

A processing.js app that creates a processors visual Ganzfeld Effect. It starts out with an monotonous red color field and slowly amplifies any processor noise by coloring pixels and producing patterns.

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notebook 2010Good Ideas and Notebooks

Where Good Ideas Come From On the flight back from Austria to Montreal I’ve read Steven Johnson’s Where Good Ideas Come From. I really like his work – i’ve read Mind Wide Open and Emergence before – because he manages …

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DreamGeheimnisse einer Seele and Thinking Dreams

Psychoanalysis is neuroplastic therapy, the inhibitory task of the prefrontal cortex and why dreams are representations of abstract ideas.

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synabcCross-Talking, Colored Grapheme and Mental Chess

Second writeup on Norman Doidge’s book “The Brain That Changes Itself”

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ErlkoenigNeuroplasticity, Supersenses and Reciting Poems

The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge tells the story of the shift from Localizationism – the belief that the brain’s structure is hardwired and doesn’t change after the early development stage – to Neuroplasticity – the ability of the human brain to rewire and change itself according to experiences.

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rainWhite Noise, Oh So Lovely

Listening states and Stimulus vs. Deprivation When i walk down the street while listening to a podcast or music with my headphones on, i turn the volume of my mp3 player to almost the maximum of 30 out of 30, …

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James TurrellAmplify the Neural Noise

We live in constant search for patterns. Being able to recognize patterns is a survival instinct. If confronted with a lack of stimulus – lack of patterns – our brain invents a new reality – hallucinations, dreams. Ganzfeld Effect The …

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hugospiralsExperience the Senses and Floating

Hugo Kükelhaus One Station at the Experience field for the development of the senses: Summstein / Humming Stone Hugo Kükelhaus and his Experience field for the development of the senses Hugo Kükelhaus – architect, pedagogue and philosopher – researched and …

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Osm_Forest_Grid_400Immersive Virtual Art and the Essence of Spatiality

Char Davies creates immersive worlds that use visual and aural stimuli to create transcendental experiences and tries to evoke entirely new experiences of spatiality.

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mullerlyer-illusiaProposal: Meta (1)

We experience and interact with the world through a set of culturally and evolutionary taught ideas and beliefs. These worldviews are different from one person to the other – depending on language, religion or culture – and adapt over the …

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caThe Death of a Closed System

What if there was all this underlying complexity but no noise? Systems ready to react, change, adapt and compute – willing to show off their capabilities to self-organize, to create patterns, to make emergence happen – but they lie idle, …

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fireflies1Steven Strogatz – SYNC

Steven Strogatz is a professor of applied mathematics at Cornell University. I own two of his books, Sync (2003) and Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos (1994), read some of his papers Exploring complex networks (Nature, 2001), watch him on TED and …

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Gregorian CalendarDan Falk – In Search of Time

Time is a mystery. And the flow of time is an illusion. Possibly a construct of our minds. Possibly an emergent property of space.

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zoetropeHypercubes, 3Dprint and Zoetropes

The first hypercubes we printed are a collection of 12 objects that represent 12 steps of a hypercube’s full rotation around an arbitrary 4dimensional axis. The rotation was computed by Ken Perlin, who visited us at the A.R.T. Lab. I …

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