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Dan Graham Pavilions:
A Guide
By Josh Thorpe
Toronto Book Launch with Dan Graham at Art Metropole, 788 King St. W., Toronto
Sunday October 4, 2009
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Nuit blanche Saturday Night: As with the past three years running, no matter what you go see, at the other end of town is an artwork that everyone else saw except you and on Sunday they won't shut the fuck up about how brilliant it was because in addition to the most transcendant art experience in the universe, they also got free chocolate, money and hand jobs.
In Zone B, Fastwürms with R.M. Vaughan, Beth Stuart and a cast of hundreds more (In Capes!) reading tarot at the Sheraton
Earl Miller has also curated an exhibition with works by:
Lisa Neighbour (Kops Records, 229 Queen St. West and Get Outside, 437 Queen St. West)
, Daniel Borins and Jennifer Marman (Pages, 256 Queen Street West)
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Anne Fauteux (Cartel, 498 Queen St. West), Kerri Reid (Pull, 435 Queen St. West), and Kathryn Walter (Fashion Crimes, 322 1/2 Queen St. West).
(Or stay home with a bag of potato chips.)
Laura Kikauka: For the Love of Gaud (Damien's Worst). At MKG127 until October 10.
Carlo Cesta - Fridge Magnet 2 at Harbourfront Centre 235 Queens Quay W., Toronto. Until Nov. 8, 2009
LOL salmon scan nabbed from prefrontal.org
What does it mean when an fMRI scanner reveals activity in the brain of a dead fish?
A: dead fish can still think about thingsCraig Bennett, the guy who put the dead salmon in the scanner, would say B, would definitely not say A, and probably would not say C. (update:Craig Bennett has clarified his stance in the comment section : he would say no to 'A', yes to 'B', and always to 'C'. - thanks Craig!)
B: time to do some more better math
C: time for those of us who aren't neuroscientists to exercise some healthy skepticism when it comes to claims being made in the popular press for non-research-based fMRI applications (eg: lie detection)
* The goal of the Salmon poster was to encourage the minority of researchers who report uncorrected statistics to move forward and begin using basic multiple comparisons correction in their research. The Salmon doesn’t add anything to the technical discussion of how multiple comparisons correction is performed, it is simply a salient reminder of why proper correction is always necessary.I respectfully take his points. But I was already leaning towards C before this salmon data and I'm still kind of going with it.
* None of the authors intended for the Salmon to go public in such a big way, especially before the commentary was reviewed and published. We were actually quite content to publish our editorial in a neuroimaging journal and be done with it. We feel that, fundamentally, this is an internal debate within the field of neuroimaging.
note: almost every story I've seen about this says that some people took the data to prove the existence of the ethereal soul. After a fair amount of searching, I still haven't found any such person.
another note: the best part of this story is that — in order to keep their variables consistent by running exactly the same kind of experiment as they always do — the researchers showed the dead salmon pictures of human people doing things and asked it what emotions it thought the people were feeling.
(thanks to Rob for the tip)