Typoplastic Surgeries
Oder Ezer is a typographic artist and experimentalist from Israel whos work transformes letters into bizarre and mesmerizing shapes and designs from insects to cloned human sperm cells injected with typographic information into its DNA. Typoplastic Surgeries explores the 'deformation of the body' and the 'revelation of its typographical perspective'. Typosperma is the second experimental typo project in his 'Biotypography' series. 'As a paraphrase on the →
Plastination
Dr. Gunther von Hagens is the controversial anatomist who invented the technique for preserving biological tissue specimens called plastination. His exhibitions Body Worlds 'are dedicated to the individual interior face'. The latest Body Works Exhibit featuring preserved dead bodies having sex opened in Berlin on Thursday with critics saying a maverick German anatomist dubbed "Doctor Death" has gone too far this time.
The Cadaver, the Comatose & the Chimera
This presentation examines alternate anatomical architectures using mechanical, virtual, biotech and surgical augmentation and exploration of the body. It exposes the obsolescence, the absence and the emptiness of the body. Stelarc is a performance artist who has performed with a third hand, a virtual arm, a 6-legged walking robot and is presently surgically constructing and stem cell growing an ear on →
Fluid Architectures
This is a talk on by Susanne Jaschko in the Workshop 'Light, Space and Perception', held this march at the MediaLab Prado, in Madrid (they are having the 1st workshop of the Common Body Workgroup - Society of Molecules next weekend!!!) As a starpoint she takes Fritz Lang Metropolis movie (1926) stating that his predictions about the urban world in 2000 →
Earth Clock
...the earth clock...check it out!
Interview: Sri-Mata Anitananda Saraswati Devi
A conversation between a student and Sri-Mata Anitananda Saraswati Devi… Student: As a child, fairly often I experienced states of complete happiness, verging on ecstasy. Later, they ceased. But since I came to Mandurah they reappeared, particularly after I met you. Yet, these states, however wonderful, are not lasting. They come and go and there is no knowing →
Teleportation of Feelings
Einstein stated that two physical realities can not be present in two different places at the same time. According to this axiom, teleportation is impossible. The frustration I had when I realised this made me consider the possibility of teleportation of something material yet not physical as our bodies appear to be, the feelings. The mechanism: A feeling of love releases vibrations →
the awareness of Presence…or towards the artificial life
During my travelling in India this summer, I stayed in an Ashram[1] of a sacred city near the Himalayas during 3 weeks, which gave me an insight to some of the Hindu wisdom, philosophy and tradition. I was especially interested in the process of meditation and its meaning, which consists in liberating the mind from the action of thinking (since →