Research

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

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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