Sun Run Sun_Yolande Harris

Sun Run Sun investigates the split between the embodied experience of location and the calculated data of position. A series of portable personal ‘instruments’, currently under development, transform satellite data directly into a sonic composition. This composition constantly varies in response to the changing location of the player as they move through their physical environment. The player/navigator’s experience of their own locational shifts are augmented by corresponding shifts in the electronic soundscape, as it is calculated/performed in real-time and played via headphones. Sun Run Sun explores the individual experience of current location technologies through a personal experience of sound. It seeks to (re)establish a sense of personal connectedness to one’s environment, and to (re)negotiate this through an investigation into old, new, future and animal navigation using sound.

Space & Culture_Bangalore 2007

BANGALORE CULTURE AND SPACE SYMPOSIUM 2007
29th September to 1st October 2007

National Institute of Advanced Studies
Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore, India

The Bangalore Culture & Space Symposium is a gathering of philosophers, space scientists, educators, and artists that will take place at the end of September in Bangalore, India. The symposium will examine current themes at the intersection of space science, technology and arts from a cultural perspective. By taking into account many perspectives involved in space research it will be an attempt to lay the groundwork for future collaborations between symposium attendees and hosting organizations.

Makrolab_Project Atol

Three primary global research fields have been identified within the Makrolab project. These are:

TELECOMMUNICATIONS
MIGRATIONS
WEATHER SYSTEMS

We at Projekt Atol and Makrolab see these fields as the territory, which we will identify, map, cross and investigate in the next 8 years, during the rest of the planned life of the project in all senses and directions. From their physical, to their psychic, social, political and artistic dimensions.

Makrolab is a processual work-machine and will be continuously developed content wise and also in its technological aspects. The designations Makrolab projects will get in the temporal sense are un1, un2, un3, un4, un5, un6, un7 and un8. The different technological improvements and systems updates, will get the designations of mark I, II, III, IV, V and VI. The Makrolab project consists of the Makrolab architecture and modular environments, sensors, sustainability and energy production systems, food productions systems, communications consoles to communicate with it, networks and integration systems, publications and lectures. We want Makrolab to constantly investigate and move between reality and all its complexity and art in all its creativity.

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As we may think_Vannevar Bush

As Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, Dr. Vannevar Bush has coordinated the activities of some six thousand leading American scientists in the application of science to warfare. In this significant article he holds up an incentive for scientists when the fighting has ceased. He urges that men of science should then turn to the massive task of making more accessible our bewildering store of knowledge. For years inventions have extended man’s physical powers rather than the powers of his mind. Trip hammers that multiply the fists, microscopes that sharpen the eye, and engines of destruction and detection are new results, but not the end results, of modern science. Now, says Dr. Bush, instruments are at hand which, if properly developed, will give man access to and command over the inherited knowledge of the ages. The perfection of these pacific instruments should be the first objective of our scientists as they emerge from their war work. Like Emerson’s famous address of 1837 on “The American Scholar,” this paper by Dr. Bush calls for a new relationship between thinking man and the sum of our knowledge. —THE EDITOR (The Atlantic, July 1945)

This has not been a scientist’s war; it has been a war in which all have had a part. The scientists, burying their old professional competition in the demand of a common cause, have shared greatly and learned much. It has been exhilarating to work in effective partnership. Now, for many, this appears to be approaching an end. What are the scientists to do next?

For the biologists, and particularly for the medical scientists, there can be little indecision, for their war has hardly required them to leave the old paths. Many indeed have been able to carry on their war research in their familiar peacetime laboratories. Their objectives remain much the same.