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I had a really great time at Subtle Technologies. Unfortunately I couldn't attend today cause I had to work. This meant I missed Donald Specter's interpretation of Waiting for Godot which is a little bit sad, and Frederic P. Schuller's take on physics as a picture of reality, which is downright heartbreaking, but Friday and Saturday were still awesome. I was really happy with my own performance. There's not much I can say about it today ...still decompressing. I used an overhead projector which was utterly satisfying, and I had a giant head on plywood with video running in the brain and eyes. I'm working on a web version of the talk. This little gif of Oppenheimer crying rocks looks both more slick and more dorky on video. Hightlights of the conference for me included:
- Juan Gruer's talk in which he quoted Rilke in German and then translated saying (I paraphrase): creatures see clearly, but human eyes are like a trap, that turn inward, our thoughts and interpretations a boundary between us and the world.
- Rob Goodman's sophisticated meta-take on the impossibility of reconstructing the harmonics of brass vases which Vitruvius suggested were placed in Greek theatres to enhance accoustics.
- Olaf Dreyer's excellently articulated quantum theory that space is not fundamental. Also all kinds of stress from the audience about entanglement, which was both entertaining and informative.
Also (important note) I plan to conduct my performative lecture again this summer so that those who were dissuaded by the fee might be able to come and check it out. Date & location TBA.
| The much awaited day has arrived... Hawkeye Parker's epic Everquest battle poem is now online at Clog! |  |
Check out the photo gallery of great looking fluid experiments by John Bush, Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics at MIT.
This one:
, this one: 
, and this one: 
are my favourites. (Thanks to Zeina for the tip!)
Toronto's art and science conference, SubtleTechnologies is next week. Come for the whole conference, but don't miss my lecture/performance on Friday, May 27th at 11:00 am.
I'm a clod. lumpen. slow. myopic. I never remember to spellcheck, but worse, I don't remember to GOOGLE! And that's a problem if you are as thick as me, cause if you don't google you can go around whining that Toronto's best art journalist RM Vaughan's National Post column isn't available online when in fact it IS online and also he wrote something nice about you in it about a million years ago and you never knew. uuuuuuh. y'all can pull the feeding tube whenever you want.
thanks (again!) to Simpleposie for dragging me into the loop.