Nuria Schönberg-Nono talks about her father Arnold Schönberg, her life and her husband Luigi Nono.

Desire Palmen is exploring the possibilities of a human mimicry in an urban environment: She makes cotton suits and paints them in a way that allows the persons wearing the garments to perfectly match and so blend in with their background – and thus disappear also for the eyes of surveillance cameras.

Visit her Website to see more of that fantastic work!

http://www.desireepalmen.nl/

http://vimeo.com/purform/whitebox

Electroacoustic composer Alain Thibault and visual designer Yan Breuleux have been working together as Purform for almost 15 years. For MUTEK the duo presented White Box, a project dedicated to exploring “new forms of generating A/V compositions in real time.”

source:http://www.creativeapplications.net/sound/avouching-avisions-at-mutek-2011-events-sound/

Leandro Erlich: Swimming Pool at P.S.1

Sachiko Kodama, Yasushi Miyajima “Morpho Towers — Two Stand

This is done with a magnetic-oil fluid, which is controlled by changing a magnetic field..

After a talk from Prof. Thomas. A. Troge (Musikinformatik) at ZKM-Karlsruhe last week, I started to investigate the principle neuro-connections in human eyes. Thereby I found this webpage about webvision which seems to answer a lot of questions that came up to me:

http://webvision.med.utah.edu/

“This is the third paper in the category, 100 Papers You Should Read (in vision science).

This paper, Synaptic Relationships in the Plexiform Layers of Carp Retina by Paul Witkovsky and John Dowling along with a previous one, Dowling and Boycott, 1966, began to set the stage for investigations into the circuitry of the inner plexiform layer (IPL) and it has only been fairly recently that this work been confirmed and extended. Read the rest of this entry »

On friday 24.6.2011 the ZKM will open their new online media archive!
I’m so curious..

http://www.mediaartbase.de/

O. Messiaen: Apparition de l’église éternelle (O. Latry)

O. Messiaen: Le Banquet Céleste