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I'm going on vacation to a strange environment called the forest that doesn't have any telephone lines or wireless hubs. I am coming back sometime around June 11th, likely armed with jpegs of green leafy things and insects. Til then....
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.