The answer to Andres' question is that it depends on the medium through
which the light is travelling. If it is dirty (dusty, noisy) then the light
is going to be absorbed by, or reflected off into other directions, so the
information content will be progressively degraded. If is travelling through
free space then the light is going to again be degraded by any other
materials it comes into contact with (bumps into) and it is going to be
diffracted by various classes of force fields (electromagnetic fields
especially) that are present and also thus the information content will be
degraded.
cheers
Stephen Jones
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From: "Andres Collazo" <acollazo@caltech.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2015 11:49 AM
To: "YASMIN DISCUSSIONS" <yasmin_discussions@estia.media.uoa.gr>
Subject: Re: [Yasmin_discussions] Announcing YASMIN discussion on LIGHT
> Hello all,
>
> This is a very interesting and timely topic. I just finished teaching my
> Principles in Modern Microscopy class this Winter quarter here at Caltech
> and I mentioned in the first lecture that 2015 was declared by the UN as
> the year of light. Of course we were mainly interested in the optics and
> technology ends though we covered the history of the microscope as well.
>
> I'm also very interested in Steve's question. I'll talk about it from the
> microscopy point of view but the optical principles for telescopes are
> similar. Guillermo Munoz provided a very nice answer to Stephen's question
> that I would like to add to. Light waves do indeed carry a great deal more
> information. Microscopists use evanescent waves to provide higher
> resolutions than the wavelength of light would normally limit us to. These
> evanescent waves are probably best understood as a quantum mechanical
> phenomenon as they are easily derived from the Schrodinger wave equations.
> Evanescent waves have a higher frequency so they can carry more
> information
> and they are a quantum tunneling phenomenon. Unfortunately evanescent
> waves
> do not refract (bend) like normal light waves do as they pass through
> materials so it's difficult for us microscopists to harvest this
> information.
>
> One hope to be able to gather this extra information is the development of
> new types of lenses made of newly developed metamaterials (artificial
> materials with physical properties not found in nature) instead of the
> optical glass we typically use in constructing lenses. There has been a
> rich debate in the scientific literature about whether there is a need for
> metamaterials with negative refractive indices for the creation of such
> superlenses that would not be diffraction limited and gather the
> information in evanescent waves. Negative refractive indices can only be
> achieved with metamaterials but it leads to weird optical phenomenon and
> is
> high on the list for developing an invisibility cloak. Here is a link to
> the debate published in Nature:
> http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v480/n7375/full/480042a.html
>
> There have certainly been abstract artists who have seemed to embrace the
> weird look of things passing through materials with negative refractive
> indices.
>
> http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/168060-the-first-quantum-metamaterial-raises-more-questions-than-it-answers
>
>
> I think these metamaterials will be allow us to see much more than we
> thought we could.
>
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 9:10 AM, Stephen Nowlin <
> stephen.nowlin@artcenter.edu> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hello, Guillermo and Roger -- this should be a fascinating topic.
>>
>> I have a question about how much information is contained in light
>> traveling through space. From my house in Southern California I look
>> straight up to Mount Wilson, where Edwin Hubble confirmed an expanding
>> universe by measuring the redshift in light traveling from distant
>> galaxies. Early telescope optics had shown other galaxies as fuzzy clouds
>> of light, and thus by virtue of our inability to fully parse the
>> information contained therein, our perception of the universe was
>> incomplete and conclusions drawn were distorted. The difference between
>> those early fuzz clouds and current images of galaxies from powerful land
>> and space-based telescopes is stunning -- the light reaching us is the
>> same, but our technology for parsing the information contained within
>> that
>> light advanced during the last century.
>>
>> So, my question is: How much information travels in light? How much
>> potentially MORE information travels in light than can we can currently
>> decipher, should we be able to develop the technologies to see it?
>>
>> It is clear, for example, that light bouncing off the Earth can yield
>> amazing detail as seen from close-by orbiting telescopes -- just look at
>> Google Map's satellite view. And from the Hubble Telescope we can see a
>> lot
>> of information reflected off the surface of Mars, which is of course much
>> further away -- so could some astronomer on another planet at the other
>> side of the galaxy, using light-analyzing technologies we perhaps can't
>> even imagine, theoretically be able to see Mars at the same or even
>> better
>> resolution? Given the physics of light, whether reflected or originated
>> by
>> a body in space, will all the information contained therein travel intact
>> to very far away places? Could we someday observe stars in distant
>> galaxies
>> at the same resolution we currently observe our Sun? My question is not
>> whether it is feasible to invent such sophisticated observation
>> technologies -- but rather would the physics of light traveling through
>> space allow close-up detail from very far aw!
>> ay -- would the information be preserved in the light and be awaiting
>> detection, should such technologies be invented?
>>
>> /stephen
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Tuesday, March 31, 2015
[Yasmin_discussions] Light is my Business
Yasminers
yasminer jon ippolito send be a back email suggesting we bring attention
to the book by sean cubitt Digital Light in which Ippolito has an essay in it
http://openhumanitiespress.org/digital-light.html
Sean, Jon- hope you will jump in to the yasmin discussion on light !
here is the table of contents:
Introduction: Materiality and Invisibility 7 Sean Cubitt, Daniel
Palmer and Nathaniel Tkacz 1. A Taxonomy and Genealogy of Digital
Light-Based Technologies 21 Alvy Ray Smith 2. Coherent Light from
Projectors to Fibre Optics 43 Sean Cubitt 3. HD Aesthetics and Digital
Cinematography 61 Terry Flaxton 4. What is Digital Light? 83 Stephen
Jones 5. Lillian Schwartz and Digital Art at Bell Laboratories,
1965–1984 102 Carolyn L. Kane 6. Digital Photography and the
Operational Archive 122 Scott McQuire 7. Lights, Camera, Algorithm:
Digital Photography's Algorithmic Conditions 144 Daniel Palmer 8.
Simulated Translucency 163 Cathryn Vasseleu 9. Mediations of Light:
Screens as Information Surfaces 179 Christiane Paul 10. View in Half
or Varying Light: Joel Zika's Neo-Baroque Aesthetics 193 Darren Tofts
11. The Panopticon is Leaking 204
meanwhile sean has a second book just out
The Practice of Light: A Genealogy of Visual Technologies From Prints to Pixels.
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/practice-light
--
From the introduction to the book The Practice of Light
the intro is on Sean's academia page
The Practice of Light: A Genealogy of Visual Technologies From Prints
to Pixels. Cambridge MA: MITPressSean Cubitt
This work is licensed under aCreative Commons
Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 Australia License.
Preface (pre-press draft)
The rewriting of the past is dynamic, oriented towards the future. Its
role is to endow the present with meaning byoffering a focus of desire
to a community with reason todoubt its future' (Debray 2004: 29)
How do visual media work? How did they get to work the way they do?
Does how they work matter?
The Practice of Light
ponders these questions by concentrating on the inferences of the
word 'work'. The titlerefers to the practice of light. Working with
light, the work
of
light, making things with and about light, is practice. When we speak
of someone as 'practical', we think of a one-to-one relationship with
materials andtools. That privileged close relation is still widespread
in media, but the tools have become increasinglycomplex, and the forms
of practice increasingly involve complex interactions not only of
human beings buttechnologies doing things, working, making. All
practice involves us in the laws of nature and, as we shallsee, in
learning from natural processes, and intervening in them. The book
unpacks a story of natural, humanand technical practices involved in
both craft and industrial methods of accounting for or mobilising
light invisual media.Light is the condition of all vision. The visual
media are our most important explorations of this condition.They
reveal the long history of humanity's struggle to control light.
The Practice of Light
presents agenealogy of the commanding visual media of the 21st
century, digital video, film and photography, tracingthe evolution of
their forms through a history of materials and practices. Because of
this focus, it omits thenon-Western history of visual technologies,
the dyes, inks, printing and paper technologies that preceded
theEuropean trajectory of printmaking, and the
swadeshi
and other indigenous forms of mechanical and digitalmedia developed
in the modern period. Instead it traces the roots of those
technologies that have becomeglobal in the 21st century. Addressing
the colonialist implications of these technologies, as well as the
otherface of globalisation, the ecological implications of dominant
media forms, will have to wait for acompanion volume to this book. It
seemed important first to establish the aesthetic of dominance in
thedominant aesthetic. In the imperial era that parallels the period
tracked here since the 15th century,techniques and technologies stolen
from colonised cultures have been assimilated into that
dominantaesthetic. It will take another book, or more than one, to
trace the braided environmental and decolonialhistories of visual
technologies. That work will look at the extent of dominance: this
investigates itsintensity.
The Practice of Light
begins in the invisibility of black, then builds from line to surface
to volume and space.It traces increasing degrees of complexity,
passing from the simplest of marks, the line, to two qualities
ofsurfaces, their texture or grain and their colour. The construction
of space in visual media is addressed in thefollowing chapter under
the rubrics of shadows, layers and projection, with perspective
considered a specialcase of a more generalised practice of projecting
that includes, among other things, cartographicorganisations of space
as well as cinematic projection. The last chapter deals with time, the
most recentaddition to visual culture, although in many respects the
media we can presume to be the oldest – poetry,song and dance – were
always intrinsically temporal. Time, as the movement of becoming,
completes atrajectory from nothing, the invisible dark, via something,
surfaces and spaces that are clearly seen, to end inwhat cannot be
seen as and in itself, but yet is everywhere apparent: the time of
decay and of emergence.By media I understand the physical processes –
matter, energy dimension and form – in which all humancommunication
takes place, including money, sex, transport, weapons and the panoply
of communication
The Practice of Light 15.10.13 page 1
roger malina
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Re: [Yasmin_discussions] Announcing YASMIN discussion on LIGHT
Hello all,
This is a very interesting and timely topic. I just finished teaching my
Principles in Modern Microscopy class this Winter quarter here at Caltech
and I mentioned in the first lecture that 2015 was declared by the UN as
the year of light. Of course we were mainly interested in the optics and
technology ends though we covered the history of the microscope as well.
I'm also very interested in Steve's question. I'll talk about it from the
microscopy point of view but the optical principles for telescopes are
similar. Guillermo Munoz provided a very nice answer to Stephen's question
that I would like to add to. Light waves do indeed carry a great deal more
information. Microscopists use evanescent waves to provide higher
resolutions than the wavelength of light would normally limit us to. These
evanescent waves are probably best understood as a quantum mechanical
phenomenon as they are easily derived from the Schrodinger wave equations.
Evanescent waves have a higher frequency so they can carry more information
and they are a quantum tunneling phenomenon. Unfortunately evanescent waves
do not refract (bend) like normal light waves do as they pass through
materials so it's difficult for us microscopists to harvest this
information.
One hope to be able to gather this extra information is the development of
new types of lenses made of newly developed metamaterials (artificial
materials with physical properties not found in nature) instead of the
optical glass we typically use in constructing lenses. There has been a
rich debate in the scientific literature about whether there is a need for
metamaterials with negative refractive indices for the creation of such
superlenses that would not be diffraction limited and gather the
information in evanescent waves. Negative refractive indices can only be
achieved with metamaterials but it leads to weird optical phenomenon and is
high on the list for developing an invisibility cloak. Here is a link to
the debate published in Nature:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v480/n7375/full/480042a.html
There have certainly been abstract artists who have seemed to embrace the
weird look of things passing through materials with negative refractive
indices.
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/168060-the-first-quantum-metamaterial-raises-more-questions-than-it-answers
I think these metamaterials will be allow us to see much more than we
thought we could.
On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 9:10 AM, Stephen Nowlin <
stephen.nowlin@artcenter.edu> wrote:
>
> Hello, Guillermo and Roger -- this should be a fascinating topic.
>
> I have a question about how much information is contained in light
> traveling through space. From my house in Southern California I look
> straight up to Mount Wilson, where Edwin Hubble confirmed an expanding
> universe by measuring the redshift in light traveling from distant
> galaxies. Early telescope optics had shown other galaxies as fuzzy clouds
> of light, and thus by virtue of our inability to fully parse the
> information contained therein, our perception of the universe was
> incomplete and conclusions drawn were distorted. The difference between
> those early fuzz clouds and current images of galaxies from powerful land
> and space-based telescopes is stunning -- the light reaching us is the
> same, but our technology for parsing the information contained within that
> light advanced during the last century.
>
> So, my question is: How much information travels in light? How much
> potentially MORE information travels in light than can we can currently
> decipher, should we be able to develop the technologies to see it?
>
> It is clear, for example, that light bouncing off the Earth can yield
> amazing detail as seen from close-by orbiting telescopes -- just look at
> Google Map's satellite view. And from the Hubble Telescope we can see a lot
> of information reflected off the surface of Mars, which is of course much
> further away -- so could some astronomer on another planet at the other
> side of the galaxy, using light-analyzing technologies we perhaps can't
> even imagine, theoretically be able to see Mars at the same or even better
> resolution? Given the physics of light, whether reflected or originated by
> a body in space, will all the information contained therein travel intact
> to very far away places? Could we someday observe stars in distant galaxies
> at the same resolution we currently observe our Sun? My question is not
> whether it is feasible to invent such sophisticated observation
> technologies -- but rather would the physics of light traveling through
> space allow close-up detail from very far aw!
> ay -- would the information be preserved in the light and be awaiting
> detection, should such technologies be invented?
>
> /stephen
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This is a very interesting and timely topic. I just finished teaching my
Principles in Modern Microscopy class this Winter quarter here at Caltech
and I mentioned in the first lecture that 2015 was declared by the UN as
the year of light. Of course we were mainly interested in the optics and
technology ends though we covered the history of the microscope as well.
I'm also very interested in Steve's question. I'll talk about it from the
microscopy point of view but the optical principles for telescopes are
similar. Guillermo Munoz provided a very nice answer to Stephen's question
that I would like to add to. Light waves do indeed carry a great deal more
information. Microscopists use evanescent waves to provide higher
resolutions than the wavelength of light would normally limit us to. These
evanescent waves are probably best understood as a quantum mechanical
phenomenon as they are easily derived from the Schrodinger wave equations.
Evanescent waves have a higher frequency so they can carry more information
and they are a quantum tunneling phenomenon. Unfortunately evanescent waves
do not refract (bend) like normal light waves do as they pass through
materials so it's difficult for us microscopists to harvest this
information.
One hope to be able to gather this extra information is the development of
new types of lenses made of newly developed metamaterials (artificial
materials with physical properties not found in nature) instead of the
optical glass we typically use in constructing lenses. There has been a
rich debate in the scientific literature about whether there is a need for
metamaterials with negative refractive indices for the creation of such
superlenses that would not be diffraction limited and gather the
information in evanescent waves. Negative refractive indices can only be
achieved with metamaterials but it leads to weird optical phenomenon and is
high on the list for developing an invisibility cloak. Here is a link to
the debate published in Nature:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v480/n7375/full/480042a.html
There have certainly been abstract artists who have seemed to embrace the
weird look of things passing through materials with negative refractive
indices.
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/168060-the-first-quantum-metamaterial-raises-more-questions-than-it-answers
I think these metamaterials will be allow us to see much more than we
thought we could.
On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 9:10 AM, Stephen Nowlin <
stephen.nowlin@artcenter.edu> wrote:
>
> Hello, Guillermo and Roger -- this should be a fascinating topic.
>
> I have a question about how much information is contained in light
> traveling through space. From my house in Southern California I look
> straight up to Mount Wilson, where Edwin Hubble confirmed an expanding
> universe by measuring the redshift in light traveling from distant
> galaxies. Early telescope optics had shown other galaxies as fuzzy clouds
> of light, and thus by virtue of our inability to fully parse the
> information contained therein, our perception of the universe was
> incomplete and conclusions drawn were distorted. The difference between
> those early fuzz clouds and current images of galaxies from powerful land
> and space-based telescopes is stunning -- the light reaching us is the
> same, but our technology for parsing the information contained within that
> light advanced during the last century.
>
> So, my question is: How much information travels in light? How much
> potentially MORE information travels in light than can we can currently
> decipher, should we be able to develop the technologies to see it?
>
> It is clear, for example, that light bouncing off the Earth can yield
> amazing detail as seen from close-by orbiting telescopes -- just look at
> Google Map's satellite view. And from the Hubble Telescope we can see a lot
> of information reflected off the surface of Mars, which is of course much
> further away -- so could some astronomer on another planet at the other
> side of the galaxy, using light-analyzing technologies we perhaps can't
> even imagine, theoretically be able to see Mars at the same or even better
> resolution? Given the physics of light, whether reflected or originated by
> a body in space, will all the information contained therein travel intact
> to very far away places? Could we someday observe stars in distant galaxies
> at the same resolution we currently observe our Sun? My question is not
> whether it is feasible to invent such sophisticated observation
> technologies -- but rather would the physics of light traveling through
> space allow close-up detail from very far aw!
> ay -- would the information be preserved in the light and be awaiting
> detection, should such technologies be invented?
>
> /stephen
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[Yasmin_discussions] Light is my Business
Yasminers
for our Light is our Business discussion I thought i would bring to
your attention an
intringuing article by nobel prize winner Frank Wilczek which came out
about a month ago
about PHYSICS in 100 YEARS
In it he talks about expanded senses, or enhanced sensoria- the nature
of light which
started this discussion needs to be coupled to how humans perceive
light= he calls
for an 'artificial synesthesia' which would combine current human
perception of light
with augmented perception of other forms of light- so "that physicists
can bring their visual cortex
fully to bear "
and he calls for artists and scientists to work together
its a fascinating article
http://frankwilczek.com/2015/physicsOneHundredYears03.pdf
roger malina
Physics in 100 Years Frank Wilczek March 18, 2015
Abstract Here I indulge in wide-ranging speculations on the shape of physics,
and technology closely related to physics, over the next one hundred years.
Themes include the many faces of unification, the re-imagining of
quantum theory, an
http://frankwilczek.com/2015/physicsOneHundredYears03.pdf
--
2.4 Enhanced Sensoria
Human perception leaves a lot on the table. Consider, for example,
color vision. Whereas the electromagnetic signals arriving at our eyes
contain a continuous range of frequencies, and also polarization, what
we perceive as "color" is a crude hash encoding, where the power
spectrum is lumped into three bins, and polarization is ignored.
(Compare our perception of sound, where we do a frequency analysis,
and can appreciate distinct tones within chords.) Also, of course, we
are insensitive to frequencies outside the visible range, including
ultraviolet and infrared. Many other animals do finer sampling, so
there is valuable information about our natural environment,not to
mention possibilities for data visualization and art, to be gained by
expanding color perception.
Modern microelectronics and computing offer attractive possibilities
for accessing this information. By appropriate transformations, we can
encode it in our existing channels, in a sort of artificial
synesthesia.
• We will vastly expand the human sensorium, opening the doors of perception.
Physicists often, and rightly, admire the beauty of their concepts and
equations. On the other hand, humans are intensely visual creatures.
It will be fruitful to use modern resources of signal processing and
computer graphics to translate the beautiful concepts and equations
into forms such that physicists can bring their visual cortex fully to
bear on them, and that people in general can admire and enjoy.
• Artists and scientists will work together, to create new works of
extraordinary beauty.
2.5 Quantum Sensoria, Quantum Minds
Quantum mechanics reveals other unseen infinities. Perhaps the most
characteristic quantum effect, which expands its state space
exponentially, is entanglement. But entanglement is both delicate and
(since it involves correlations) subtle to observe, so our exploration
of that central feature of the quantum world is only now properly
commencing. New kinds of observables will open to view, and new states
of matter will be revealed:
• Measurement of entanglement, and
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Re: [Yasmin_discussions] Light is My Business
Hello all,
I have some comments around this discussion.
First of all, as it happens sometimes in Yasmin, now we have the discussion
divided by three names: Light is my business, Fireworks and electricity and
Yasmin discussion on LIGHT. May be is not a problem, and the discussion
would evolve by its own selecting the best name that contains it. But, i
would like to point it for the possible new discussants.
Second. Stephen, your question make me to be a kind of shameful !!, as
quick as i said "light is my business", you make a question that for sure
is not easy to answer for me. Glupsss. However, i would try. Light contains
so much kind of information. As i said in the previous post, light can be
analized as a electromagnetic wave. Sound is wave as well, and we use it to
drive information and comunicate. We can use another kinds of
comunications, for example birds or horses, by communication through waves
is fast (sound around 300 m/s and light around 300,000,000 m/s). Nowadays
electronics, radio, wi-fi, bluetooth, NFC, RFID, IRDA, ..., are
technologies that use this electromagnetic wave communication. To perform
this communication the wave must be modulated, as we know (radio is the
best example, FM, AM, ...). One important concept there is the carrier wave
and the modulated signal. If we have higher frecuency carrier waves, it is
possible to get higuer boradbands, an so on, much richer information. So,
in these sense, radio waves are less richer than microwaves. An for sure,
visible light could transport more information. One interesting TED talk
speaks about this, with the proposal of Li-Fi (The analogous of Wi-Fi but
with visible light):
https://www.ted.com/talks/harald_haas_wireless_data_from_every_light_bulb
This is not the end, for sure. Light carries lot of information: energy,
polarization, intensity, coherence, photon statistics, patterns of
vibration (modes) and many more. There are new ways to carry information
through light, as for example Twisted Light, which is a kind of information
through the transvers paterns of the light vibration:
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29953239
I attach this video, about communicating with light, from Polina Bayvel,
who is Professor of Optical Communications and Networks, and Head of the
Optical Networks Group at University College London.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qezHUwou9dY&feature=youtu.be
At the same time, there is another very interesting way to send information
with light, which comes from quantum nature of light: entangled photons. In
these systems two photons are related to each other, in a way that when we
define some property in one of them (for example polarization) the second
define this property instanteneously. It is independente of how far are
both photons between them. One could be at Earth and the other at the Moon,
or even farther. This kind of pairs are called EPR pairs, at its seems they
violate special relativity and opened new kind of experiments starting from
Bells inequalities. Nowadays this kind of entangled photon pairs are used
to send secure information, or to make quantum teletransportation of photon
states. All of this new ways of send and manipulate information are by
light and its properties.
Finally, i' m very interested in which way the artistic community works
with light in its quantized version: photon. Nowadays, photonics is a word
that cover lot of new technologies, and single photons are used in more
accesible way (for example attenuated lasers) and single photon detectors
are not very difficult to opperate (as for example Silicon APDs). So, what
can expect from the artistic community when they manipulate light by
photons?
Guillermo.
Fireworks and electricity
2015-03-30 16:28 GMT+02:00 roger malina <rmalina@alum.mit.edu>:
> Yasminers
>
> I just got a post from Pierre Alain Hubert, one of the worlds foremost
> fireworks artists.
>
> He has created among other things the worlds smallest fireworks
> that we jokingly call 'nano fireworks' although they are not nano
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a66zRsDOp7I
>
>
>
>
> dear colleagues
>
> about 2015 the year of light who is intersted by discussing about
> Fireworks as an art form
> I m a world known fireworks 'specialist
> so light is my business
> artist, scientist, specialist of large displays all over the world ,
> and working too on millimetric sources of sparks
> friend of roger Malina throught IMERA
> I will be very glad to participate at this year of light program in a team
> feel free to look at my web site and to contact me
> looking forward for your response
> all the best
> pierre alain hubert france
>
> amitiés P.A.H
> pyrohub@yahoo.fr
> www.pyrohubert.com
>
>
> Here are more details on his 'nano fireworks
>
>
> http://www.nanowiki.info/#%5B%5BSmall%20is%20Beautiful%3A%20NANO-FIREWORKS%3F%5D%5D
>
> Small is Beautiful: NANO-FIREWORKS?
> Roger Malina, 31 March 2010 (created 31 March 2010)
> Pierre-Alain Hubert is one of the worlds foremost fireworks artists
> known internationally:http://www.pyrohubert.com/
>
> I first met him when we were planning projects for the International
> Year of Physics in France and he had a proposal to create fireworks
> whose display structures were similar to those of showers of particles
> created in particle accelerators like those being created at the LHC
> at CERN as we speak. He was fascinated about the question of the scale
> of phenomena and in particular if you could tell the scale of a
> phenomenon from a photograph. What structures are particular to
> particular scales of phenomena? This is a question that has a large
> literature, with seminal works such as Darcy Wentworth Thomson's "On
> Growth and Form" with recent discussions triggered by Mandelbrot's
> work on fractals.
>
> Pierre-Alain Hubert recently met nano scientist Jim Gimzewski during a
> residency at IMERA and the question came up of whether one could make
> nano-fireworks, or at what scale does explosif release become
> impossible. Hubert went to work and has now created a series of the
> smallest fireworks ever created. You can hear him describe them and
> see the displays at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a66zRsDOp7I
>
> These are perhaps not yet nano but certainly micro. In the u-tube
> video he again discusses the question of structure and scale. He is
> also intrigued by the coincidence that the structure of the displays
> of his nano fireworks reminds him of what he imagines to be the firing
> of neurons. Hubert and Gimzewski plan to continue their collaboration
> and I would be interested in other art-science work that investigates
> the question of scale and structure.
>
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[Yasmin_discussions] Fwd: Fireworks and electricity
Greetings Yasmin from New Zealand.
Pierre Alain Hubert I saw your post on Yasmin and sent you a reply but
thought perhaps it better to offer the thinking out to the wider Yasmin
group.
AS 2015 is the year of light I am looking at doing something interesting
with my work and I was thinking about your discussion of your work on a
youtube clip and especially
a discussion where you were talking about photons and perhaps something I
think you call the photoform. I wish to hear more ideas on issues to do
with what I think in the French language would be called feu d'artifice and
electricite.
Perhaps as you have inspired myself you may see something of interest in
my work.
Is there any more discussion you can offer on the photo form perhaps the
source of your research on the topic.
I have been re-concerning my thinking with the idea that with electricity I
am creating plasma which is the blue/white light in the long distance
exploding wire image below. Here is how our work in exploding wire happens
to my thinking some of this thinking may be scientifically fanciful but it
suits my purpose and I offer it out there as it may be of some use
especially the vacuum that must result in even the smallest of fireworks.
My thoughts on my art created with exploding wire.
we put a large amount of voltage into a wire,
the wire explodes,
the explosion creates a vacuum,
a vacuum is the path of least resistance and the capacitors with
stored electricity at 45000 volts use the path to release the energy in the
form of plasma
a plasma path opens in a fraction of time and space.
As plasma has been discussed as all light frequencies and sound frequencies
given that everything in the known world is excited atoms then given there
is firstly a vacuum and then a plasma bolt
there is a loose argument that in my work I am creating something into
nothing and then everything from nothing.
As an artist I work with a team of scientist/electrical engineers so any
intelligence on a science or physics discussion I wont be able to answer/
is dependant on the scientists.
I take inspiration
from fireworks in general and invite you to view my work.
Some of the work I have been doing as an artist has mostly been in two forms
one is lightning arc drawing (15000volts) which is an extension of drawing
on a two dimensional plane with conductive media and the other exploding
wire which because of higher voltages (45000 volts) has mostly been working
in 3 dimensional space. I have some photos to share with you the second
image is the process of my thinking to put ink on .3 millimetre wire and
explode it onto paper. Here also are a few links to videos of the former
lightning arc drawing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5EOfr8Bzo4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh9Jw906usU
http://www.kerry-tunstall.blogspot.co.nz/
Kind regards from far away
--
Kerry Tunstall
hvkerry@gmail.com
--
Kerry Tunstall
hvkerry@gmail.com
Pierre Alain Hubert I saw your post on Yasmin and sent you a reply but
thought perhaps it better to offer the thinking out to the wider Yasmin
group.
AS 2015 is the year of light I am looking at doing something interesting
with my work and I was thinking about your discussion of your work on a
youtube clip and especially
a discussion where you were talking about photons and perhaps something I
think you call the photoform. I wish to hear more ideas on issues to do
with what I think in the French language would be called feu d'artifice and
electricite.
Perhaps as you have inspired myself you may see something of interest in
my work.
Is there any more discussion you can offer on the photo form perhaps the
source of your research on the topic.
I have been re-concerning my thinking with the idea that with electricity I
am creating plasma which is the blue/white light in the long distance
exploding wire image below. Here is how our work in exploding wire happens
to my thinking some of this thinking may be scientifically fanciful but it
suits my purpose and I offer it out there as it may be of some use
especially the vacuum that must result in even the smallest of fireworks.
My thoughts on my art created with exploding wire.
we put a large amount of voltage into a wire,
the wire explodes,
the explosion creates a vacuum,
a vacuum is the path of least resistance and the capacitors with
stored electricity at 45000 volts use the path to release the energy in the
form of plasma
a plasma path opens in a fraction of time and space.
As plasma has been discussed as all light frequencies and sound frequencies
given that everything in the known world is excited atoms then given there
is firstly a vacuum and then a plasma bolt
there is a loose argument that in my work I am creating something into
nothing and then everything from nothing.
As an artist I work with a team of scientist/electrical engineers so any
intelligence on a science or physics discussion I wont be able to answer/
is dependant on the scientists.
I take inspiration
from fireworks in general and invite you to view my work.
Some of the work I have been doing as an artist has mostly been in two forms
one is lightning arc drawing (15000volts) which is an extension of drawing
on a two dimensional plane with conductive media and the other exploding
wire which because of higher voltages (45000 volts) has mostly been working
in 3 dimensional space. I have some photos to share with you the second
image is the process of my thinking to put ink on .3 millimetre wire and
explode it onto paper. Here also are a few links to videos of the former
lightning arc drawing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5EOfr8Bzo4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh9Jw906usU
http://www.kerry-tunstall.blogspot.co.nz/
Kind regards from far away
--
Kerry Tunstall
hvkerry@gmail.com
--
Kerry Tunstall
hvkerry@gmail.com
Re: [Yasmin_discussions] Announcing YASMIN discussion on LIGHT
Hello, Guillermo and Roger -- this should be a fascinating topic.
I have a question about how much information is contained in light traveling through space. From my house in Southern California I look straight up to Mount Wilson, where Edwin Hubble confirmed an expanding universe by measuring the redshift in light traveling from distant galaxies. Early telescope optics had shown other galaxies as fuzzy clouds of light, and thus by virtue of our inability to fully parse the information contained therein, our perception of the universe was incomplete and conclusions drawn were distorted. The difference between those early fuzz clouds and current images of galaxies from powerful land and space-based telescopes is stunning -- the light reaching us is the same, but our technology for parsing the information contained within that light advanced during the last century.
So, my question is: How much information travels in light? How much potentially MORE information travels in light than can we can currently decipher, should we be able to develop the technologies to see it?
It is clear, for example, that light bouncing off the Earth can yield amazing detail as seen from close-by orbiting telescopes -- just look at Google Map's satellite view. And from the Hubble Telescope we can see a lot of information reflected off the surface of Mars, which is of course much further away -- so could some astronomer on another planet at the other side of the galaxy, using light-analyzing technologies we perhaps can't even imagine, theoretically be able to see Mars at the same or even better resolution? Given the physics of light, whether reflected or originated by a body in space, will all the information contained therein travel intact to very far away places? Could we someday observe stars in distant galaxies at the same resolution we currently observe our Sun? My question is not whether it is feasible to invent such sophisticated observation technologies -- but rather would the physics of light traveling through space allow close-up detail from very far aw!
ay -- would the information be preserved in the light and be awaiting detection, should such technologies be invented?
/stephen
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I have a question about how much information is contained in light traveling through space. From my house in Southern California I look straight up to Mount Wilson, where Edwin Hubble confirmed an expanding universe by measuring the redshift in light traveling from distant galaxies. Early telescope optics had shown other galaxies as fuzzy clouds of light, and thus by virtue of our inability to fully parse the information contained therein, our perception of the universe was incomplete and conclusions drawn were distorted. The difference between those early fuzz clouds and current images of galaxies from powerful land and space-based telescopes is stunning -- the light reaching us is the same, but our technology for parsing the information contained within that light advanced during the last century.
So, my question is: How much information travels in light? How much potentially MORE information travels in light than can we can currently decipher, should we be able to develop the technologies to see it?
It is clear, for example, that light bouncing off the Earth can yield amazing detail as seen from close-by orbiting telescopes -- just look at Google Map's satellite view. And from the Hubble Telescope we can see a lot of information reflected off the surface of Mars, which is of course much further away -- so could some astronomer on another planet at the other side of the galaxy, using light-analyzing technologies we perhaps can't even imagine, theoretically be able to see Mars at the same or even better resolution? Given the physics of light, whether reflected or originated by a body in space, will all the information contained therein travel intact to very far away places? Could we someday observe stars in distant galaxies at the same resolution we currently observe our Sun? My question is not whether it is feasible to invent such sophisticated observation technologies -- but rather would the physics of light traveling through space allow close-up detail from very far aw!
ay -- would the information be preserved in the light and be awaiting detection, should such technologies be invented?
/stephen
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[Yasmin_discussions] Light is My Business
Yasminers
I just got a post from Pierre Alain Hubert, one of the worlds foremost
fireworks artists.
He has created among other things the worlds smallest fireworks
that we jokingly call 'nano fireworks' although they are not nano
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a66zRsDOp7I
dear colleagues
about 2015 the year of light who is intersted by discussing about
Fireworks as an art form
I m a world known fireworks 'specialist
so light is my business
artist, scientist, specialist of large displays all over the world ,
and working too on millimetric sources of sparks
friend of roger Malina throught IMERA
I will be very glad to participate at this year of light program in a team
feel free to look at my web site and to contact me
looking forward for your response
all the best
pierre alain hubert france
amitiés P.A.H
pyrohub@yahoo.fr
www.pyrohubert.com
Here are more details on his 'nano fireworks
http://www.nanowiki.info/#%5B%5BSmall%20is%20Beautiful%3A%20NANO-FIREWORKS%3F%5D%5D
Small is Beautiful: NANO-FIREWORKS?
Roger Malina, 31 March 2010 (created 31 March 2010)
Pierre-Alain Hubert is one of the worlds foremost fireworks artists
known internationally:http://www.pyrohubert.com/
I first met him when we were planning projects for the International
Year of Physics in France and he had a proposal to create fireworks
whose display structures were similar to those of showers of particles
created in particle accelerators like those being created at the LHC
at CERN as we speak. He was fascinated about the question of the scale
of phenomena and in particular if you could tell the scale of a
phenomenon from a photograph. What structures are particular to
particular scales of phenomena? This is a question that has a large
literature, with seminal works such as Darcy Wentworth Thomson's "On
Growth and Form" with recent discussions triggered by Mandelbrot's
work on fractals.
Pierre-Alain Hubert recently met nano scientist Jim Gimzewski during a
residency at IMERA and the question came up of whether one could make
nano-fireworks, or at what scale does explosif release become
impossible. Hubert went to work and has now created a series of the
smallest fireworks ever created. You can hear him describe them and
see the displays at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a66zRsDOp7I
These are perhaps not yet nano but certainly micro. In the u-tube
video he again discusses the question of structure and scale. He is
also intrigued by the coincidence that the structure of the displays
of his nano fireworks reminds him of what he imagines to be the firing
of neurons. Hubert and Gimzewski plan to continue their collaboration
and I would be interested in other art-science work that investigates
the question of scale and structure.
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Re: [Yasmin_discussions] Announcing YASMIN discussion on LIGHT
Hello all,
One example of a Mathematician, Jim Campbell, that make art with light:
http://www.yorokobu.es/jim-campbell/
Now his work is in Madrid at Espacio Fundacion Telefonica.
http://espacio.fundaciontelefonica.com/jim-campbell/
Guillermo.
2015-03-30 10:53 GMT+02:00 Guillermo Muñoz <m.m.guillermo@gmail.com>:
> Hello Yasminers,
>
> Yes, this discussion could be is too broad. May be is difficult to
> surround a topic which seems that is around everything. However, as Roger
> said, "light is my business". In fact, light is our business, as art,
> science, ecology, technology, ..., cover many aspects of light. Light plays
> an importante role in my work. I work with semiconductor single quantum
> dots, which offen are called artificial atoms. But i use light in order to
> "extract" information from them (spectroscopy). In fact, the most exciting
> topic that i cover is to analyzed this light in the "particle" picture. So,
> photons. Aroun this topic, may be we can cover many aspects. For example:
>
> 1) History of light. There are many and different steps to understand
> light as we understand nowadays. For example, light was considereded as
> traveling with infinity velocity. Which is the same that is light is
> present in all places. In midle ages there were very interesting researchs
> that shows for the first time that light travel with a finite velocity.
> Light velocity became possible to be measured. Afterwards, in one of the
> highest scientific discoveries, light was understood as a propagating
> electromagnetic wave (with the principal efforts from Faraday and Maxwell
> in the XIX century). This was an interesting fundamental physics
> unification (eletricity, magnetism and light). So, light was just an
> special case of the electromagnetic radiation. Not to much later, new
> technologies emerge, like radio communication (radio waves are longer
> wavelenght light, which human eye can not detect). But, this is not the end
> of the history, of course. At the begining of the XX century, Einstein make
> another importante change for the idea of light. Light has a constant
> velocity, independent of the observer. This was just an opposite conclusion
> from the beggining (light has infinite velocity). So, light is deeply
> correlated with the idea of space and time. But, far from the end, Einstein
> put another important suggestion: light could be interpreted as kind of
> "particles", photons. So, as matter was suggested to be quantized, the
> electromagnetic field could be quantized as well. This idea opens the field
> of quantum optics, which in my feelings is one of the most beautiful and
> surprisings science fields.
>
> 2) All these fundamental research, for sure, was translated in many
> devices and technologies. I mention radio communication, but today wireless
> or bluetooth technologies, or GPS, are most of the same radio
> technologies. But the industrial explosion is not only these. Early in the
> XX century it was patented the Light Emitting Diode (LED), by a russian
> researcher. In the 60´s it was invented LASER, which comes from a previous
> technology called MASER. Fiber optics is a technology to manage light, and
> nowadays many information technologies carrie the information through light
> by fiber optics. Following the quantum optics recent advances, today we can
> dream with quantum computers, quantum cryptography, or quantum
> teleportation, which can be designed with special sources of light
> "entangled photons".
>
> 3) But these light technology, for sure is designed to be incorpored in
> our society. Nowadays LED is a technology that becomes available and is
> used in industries, arquitectures, ..., at the same time the twin brother
> of LED, Solar Cells, gives us the opportunity to think about in a kind of
> green energy (which must be defined if it is so green or not). Fiber optics
> are designed to be sensors (chemical, tensions, temperature, humidity,
> movement, ...), which use the propagation of light to sensing. At the same
> time, fiber optics was proposed to create new ways of solar ilumination
> inside houses, which only needs the energy from sun. Light is used to
> develope new medical solutions, as light pointers for tumors (some examples
> with my leved quantum dots, or metalic nanoparticles).
>
> 4) It is evident that light has an strog impact on art. Light becomes
> visualization, represenation, color, images and imaging..., even all of
> these culd be understand as a mental painting. So light is inside our
> brains, as intense as outside or body. Light may be is imagination, and
> metaphores. One of the most cited metaphores is the light of knowledge, or
> the light from god. May be, as Roger pointed, when speak about light, in
> fact we are speaking about darkness at the same time (absence of light). To
> see, is to understand?, for sure, light is languaje at the same time, and
> there are many controverse related to these metaphores of seeing,
> knowledge, ilustration, ...
>
> Let´s see if we van develope an interesting discussion.
>
> All the best,
>
> Guillermo.
>
> 2015-03-29 21:36 GMT+02:00 roger malina <rmalina@alum.mit.edu>:
>
>> yasminers
>>
>> Guillermo Munoz and I thought we would do a different kind of YASMIN
>> discussion impulsed
>> by this year's "International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies
>> that the 68th Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN)
>> adopted
>> on December 20, 2013, proclaiming 2015 as "International Year of Light
>> and Light-based Technologies" (IYL 2015).
>>
>> This theme is also the theme of The 2nd Art, Science, City
>> International Conference 201 in Valencia this coming October
>> which will bring the art, science and technology community together
>> around problematics of the build urban environment.
>>
>> http://www.artsciencecity.com/?lang=en
>>
>> The deadline for abstracts is April 6 !!
>>
>> We will also be holding a YASMIN meeting during the conference
>> organised by Guillermo Munoz
>>
>> We look forward to your contributions to the YASMIN discussion
>> beginning next week on the
>> YASMIN discussion list
>>
>> http://estia.media.uoa.gr/mailman/roster/yasmin_discussions
>>
>> Roger Malina and Guillermo Munoz
>>
>>
>> The 2nd Art, Science, City International Conference 2015 aims to
>> promote interdisciplinary research on techno-scientific culture in
>> contemporary societies and its impact on the ways of life, paying
>> special attention to the impact of imaging technologies in urban
>> contexts.
>>
>> The conference is organized by the Master of Visual Arts and
>> Multimedia of the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) and the
>> University of the Basque Country / Euskal Herriko Unibersitatea (EHU)
>> to encourage and develop research projects that contribute to bridge
>> the gap between academia, professional practice and citizens, and also
>> between science and humanities.
>>
>> This second edition of the conference offers an interdisciplinary
>> forum to discuss the most relevant experiences around the relationship
>> of art + science + city, placing light as the transversal structure.
>> Light understood from the complexity of its dual nature
>> (wave-particle) both in technological applications and theoretical
>> discourse; recognising light-based technologies and innovations that
>> are transforming communications, energy resources, new methods of
>> medical diagnosis and treatments, and their influence on our culture
>> and ways of visualization. That is why we propose as a general topic:
>>
>> Light, more light ! = Visuality :: Energy :: Connectivity
>>
>> The choice of the conference theme comes from the resolution of the
>> 68th Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN)
>> adopted on December 20, 2013, proclaiming 2015 as "International Year
>> of Light and Light-based Technologies" (IYL 2015). Taking these themes
>> as reference, the congress will be structured around four thematic
>> panels, and the Creative Room, that will host the speakers'
>> dissertations.
>>
>> Panel 1: Light [+] Visuality
>> Panel 2: Light [+] Energy
>> Panel 3: Light [+] Connectivity
>> Panel 4: Light [+] Light/Light + Darkness
>>
>> Creative Room: Spectrum:: Light/Art [+] Science [+] City
>> Light [+] Innovation :: Technology Demonstrations; Information Boards
>>
>> Light [+] Innovation aims at providing all ASC Conference participants
>> with the opportunity to meet companies and research organizations
>> which are actively developing light-based technologies. It will be a
>> space for technology demonstrations and information boards which will
>> encourage and facilitate the meeting of universities, business, local
>> associations and institutions.
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Yasmin_discussions mailing list
>> Yasmin_discussions@estia.media.uoa.gr
>> http://estia.media.uoa.gr/mailman/listinfo/yasmin_discussions
>>
>> Yasmin URL: http://www.media.uoa.gr/yasmin
>>
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>> page that will appear ("info page"), enter e-mail address, name, and
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Re: [Yasmin_discussions] Announcing YASMIN discussion on LIGHT
Hello Yasminers,
Yes, this discussion could be is too broad. May be is difficult to surround
a topic which seems that is around everything. However, as Roger said,
"light is my business". In fact, light is our business, as art, science,
ecology, technology, ..., cover many aspects of light. Light plays an
importante role in my work. I work with semiconductor single quantum dots,
which offen are called artificial atoms. But i use light in order to
"extract" information from them (spectroscopy). In fact, the most exciting
topic that i cover is to analyzed this light in the "particle" picture. So,
photons. Aroun this topic, may be we can cover many aspects. For example:
1) History of light. There are many and different steps to understand light
as we understand nowadays. For example, light was considereded as traveling
with infinity velocity. Which is the same that is light is present in all
places. In midle ages there were very interesting researchs that shows for
the first time that light travel with a finite velocity. Light velocity
became possible to be measured. Afterwards, in one of the highest
scientific discoveries, light was understood as a propagating
electromagnetic wave (with the principal efforts from Faraday and Maxwell
in the XIX century). This was an interesting fundamental physics
unification (eletricity, magnetism and light). So, light was just an
special case of the electromagnetic radiation. Not to much later, new
technologies emerge, like radio communication (radio waves are longer
wavelenght light, which human eye can not detect). But, this is not the end
of the history, of course. At the begining of the XX century, Einstein make
another importante change for the idea of light. Light has a constant
velocity, independent of the observer. This was just an opposite conclusion
from the beggining (light has infinite velocity). So, light is deeply
correlated with the idea of space and time. But, far from the end, Einstein
put another important suggestion: light could be interpreted as kind of
"particles", photons. So, as matter was suggested to be quantized, the
electromagnetic field could be quantized as well. This idea opens the field
of quantum optics, which in my feelings is one of the most beautiful and
surprisings science fields.
2) All these fundamental research, for sure, was translated in many devices
and technologies. I mention radio communication, but today wireless or
bluetooth technologies, or GPS, are most of the same radio technologies.
But the industrial explosion is not only these. Early in the XX century it
was patented the Light Emitting Diode (LED), by a russian researcher. In
the 60´s it was invented LASER, which comes from a previous technology
called MASER. Fiber optics is a technology to manage light, and nowadays
many information technologies carrie the information through light by fiber
optics. Following the quantum optics recent advances, today we can dream
with quantum computers, quantum cryptography, or quantum teleportation,
which can be designed with special sources of light "entangled photons".
3) But these light technology, for sure is designed to be incorpored in our
society. Nowadays LED is a technology that becomes available and is used in
industries, arquitectures, ..., at the same time the twin brother of LED,
Solar Cells, gives us the opportunity to think about in a kind of green
energy (which must be defined if it is so green or not). Fiber optics are
designed to be sensors (chemical, tensions, temperature, humidity,
movement, ...), which use the propagation of light to sensing. At the same
time, fiber optics was proposed to create new ways of solar ilumination
inside houses, which only needs the energy from sun. Light is used to
develope new medical solutions, as light pointers for tumors (some examples
with my leved quantum dots, or metalic nanoparticles).
4) It is evident that light has an strog impact on art. Light becomes
visualization, represenation, color, images and imaging..., even all of
these culd be understand as a mental painting. So light is inside our
brains, as intense as outside or body. Light may be is imagination, and
metaphores. One of the most cited metaphores is the light of knowledge, or
the light from god. May be, as Roger pointed, when speak about light, in
fact we are speaking about darkness at the same time (absence of light). To
see, is to understand?, for sure, light is languaje at the same time, and
there are many controverse related to these metaphores of seeing,
knowledge, ilustration, ...
Let´s see if we van develope an interesting discussion.
All the best,
Guillermo.
2015-03-29 21:36 GMT+02:00 roger malina <rmalina@alum.mit.edu>:
> yasminers
>
> Guillermo Munoz and I thought we would do a different kind of YASMIN
> discussion impulsed
> by this year's "International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies
> that the 68th Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN)
> adopted
> on December 20, 2013, proclaiming 2015 as "International Year of Light
> and Light-based Technologies" (IYL 2015).
>
> This theme is also the theme of The 2nd Art, Science, City
> International Conference 201 in Valencia this coming October
> which will bring the art, science and technology community together
> around problematics of the build urban environment.
>
> http://www.artsciencecity.com/?lang=en
>
> The deadline for abstracts is April 6 !!
>
> We will also be holding a YASMIN meeting during the conference
> organised by Guillermo Munoz
>
> We look forward to your contributions to the YASMIN discussion
> beginning next week on the
> YASMIN discussion list
>
> http://estia.media.uoa.gr/mailman/roster/yasmin_discussions
>
> Roger Malina and Guillermo Munoz
>
>
> The 2nd Art, Science, City International Conference 2015 aims to
> promote interdisciplinary research on techno-scientific culture in
> contemporary societies and its impact on the ways of life, paying
> special attention to the impact of imaging technologies in urban
> contexts.
>
> The conference is organized by the Master of Visual Arts and
> Multimedia of the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) and the
> University of the Basque Country / Euskal Herriko Unibersitatea (EHU)
> to encourage and develop research projects that contribute to bridge
> the gap between academia, professional practice and citizens, and also
> between science and humanities.
>
> This second edition of the conference offers an interdisciplinary
> forum to discuss the most relevant experiences around the relationship
> of art + science + city, placing light as the transversal structure.
> Light understood from the complexity of its dual nature
> (wave-particle) both in technological applications and theoretical
> discourse; recognising light-based technologies and innovations that
> are transforming communications, energy resources, new methods of
> medical diagnosis and treatments, and their influence on our culture
> and ways of visualization. That is why we propose as a general topic:
>
> Light, more light ! = Visuality :: Energy :: Connectivity
>
> The choice of the conference theme comes from the resolution of the
> 68th Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN)
> adopted on December 20, 2013, proclaiming 2015 as "International Year
> of Light and Light-based Technologies" (IYL 2015). Taking these themes
> as reference, the congress will be structured around four thematic
> panels, and the Creative Room, that will host the speakers'
> dissertations.
>
> Panel 1: Light [+] Visuality
> Panel 2: Light [+] Energy
> Panel 3: Light [+] Connectivity
> Panel 4: Light [+] Light/Light + Darkness
>
> Creative Room: Spectrum:: Light/Art [+] Science [+] City
> Light [+] Innovation :: Technology Demonstrations; Information Boards
>
> Light [+] Innovation aims at providing all ASC Conference participants
> with the opportunity to meet companies and research organizations
> which are actively developing light-based technologies. It will be a
> space for technology demonstrations and information boards which will
> encourage and facilitate the meeting of universities, business, local
> associations and institutions.
>
> _______________________________________________
> Yasmin_discussions mailing list
> Yasmin_discussions@estia.media.uoa.gr
> http://estia.media.uoa.gr/mailman/listinfo/yasmin_discussions
>
> Yasmin URL: http://www.media.uoa.gr/yasmin
>
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> page that will appear ("info page"), enter e-mail address, name, and
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Sunday, March 29, 2015
[Yasmin_discussions] your moderator this week
yasminers
I am taking over from Guillermo in Valencia, Spain as your yasmin
moderator
if you are new to the YASMIN list please send us a short email introducing
yourself- when you walk into your community you shake hands dont you ?
guillermo and i thought we would moderate a discussion around Light
and the City- hope you will join in
here is my first post for reaction on the YASMIN discussion list
Yasminers
When yasmin moderator Guillermo Munoz, a nano scientist
in Valencia, Spain suggested we do a Yasmin discussion
around the topic of light I was initially skeptical. There seems to
be day or year of everything these days. But then he said in
passing : "light is my business" and it got me thinking. Indeed as an
astronomer "light is my business" because today the only way we
know anything about the universe is by detecting and manipulating
light. ( we have been trying to detect gravity waves, neutrinos, dark
matter and dark energy but have been failing)
The ironic thing is most things in the universe don't emit light at all.
Dark Energy and Dark Matter don't emit light and they are 97% of the
content of the universe. Astronomers have just been studying the
decoration on the universe ( its as if you told a ethnographer they could
study human nature and human societies but they could only study
humans who lived on snow or ice).
And then humans cant detect most kinds of light ( only a narrow band
around visible light)- whoever designed human beings did it badly
-if you really wanted to design humans to understand the universe
they would have infrared, radio and xray eyes too-and those gravity
waves are SUBLIME !!
Perhaps its amazing how much we understand by studying the decoration !
I look forward to Guillermo's comments as a nano scientist .
And then - for visual artists, light is their business too !
Anyway we thought we would have this discussion on yasmin- knowing
that it rapidly could become banal and un-productive
Guillermo is helping organise the 2nd Art, Science, City International
Conference 201
in Valencia this coming October with Light and the City as the theme and
where he will organise a YASMIN meeting-contact
him if you would like to attend !
http://www.artsciencecity.com/?lang=en
As an astronomer of course Light and the City makes me think of the problem
of light pollution. Humans are stupid - city lighting emits a large
fraction of our
energy into the sky un=necessarily and not where we need it= cut your
carbon foot print by designing
better city and home lighting !
By coincidence in Dallas I had the visit of south african artist
Marcus Neustetter.
he has this amazing public art project with the South African Large Telescope
http://www.sutherlandreflections.com/
Because of the needs of the observatory the local community in Sutherland
has to avoid light and radio pollution ( South Africa will soon be hosting the
largest radio telescope in the work; SKA https://www.skatelescope.org/
the Square Kilometer Telescope Array ) and in his talks he discussed
the social practice he has developed with the local town of 800 people.
Among other things they have build their own 'observatory' next to the
scientists telescopes: http://www.marcusneustetter.net/?p=621
This project is an excellent example of an art-science project that is
based on socially engaged practice and public art. I will be asking Marcus to
make a comment for our discussion
guillermo I hope you will inject your thoughts as a nano scientist !
Roger Malina
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I am taking over from Guillermo in Valencia, Spain as your yasmin
moderator
if you are new to the YASMIN list please send us a short email introducing
yourself- when you walk into your community you shake hands dont you ?
guillermo and i thought we would moderate a discussion around Light
and the City- hope you will join in
here is my first post for reaction on the YASMIN discussion list
Yasminers
When yasmin moderator Guillermo Munoz, a nano scientist
in Valencia, Spain suggested we do a Yasmin discussion
around the topic of light I was initially skeptical. There seems to
be day or year of everything these days. But then he said in
passing : "light is my business" and it got me thinking. Indeed as an
astronomer "light is my business" because today the only way we
know anything about the universe is by detecting and manipulating
light. ( we have been trying to detect gravity waves, neutrinos, dark
matter and dark energy but have been failing)
The ironic thing is most things in the universe don't emit light at all.
Dark Energy and Dark Matter don't emit light and they are 97% of the
content of the universe. Astronomers have just been studying the
decoration on the universe ( its as if you told a ethnographer they could
study human nature and human societies but they could only study
humans who lived on snow or ice).
And then humans cant detect most kinds of light ( only a narrow band
around visible light)- whoever designed human beings did it badly
-if you really wanted to design humans to understand the universe
they would have infrared, radio and xray eyes too-and those gravity
waves are SUBLIME !!
Perhaps its amazing how much we understand by studying the decoration !
I look forward to Guillermo's comments as a nano scientist .
And then - for visual artists, light is their business too !
Anyway we thought we would have this discussion on yasmin- knowing
that it rapidly could become banal and un-productive
Guillermo is helping organise the 2nd Art, Science, City International
Conference 201
in Valencia this coming October with Light and the City as the theme and
where he will organise a YASMIN meeting-contact
him if you would like to attend !
http://www.artsciencecity.com/?lang=en
As an astronomer of course Light and the City makes me think of the problem
of light pollution. Humans are stupid - city lighting emits a large
fraction of our
energy into the sky un=necessarily and not where we need it= cut your
carbon foot print by designing
better city and home lighting !
By coincidence in Dallas I had the visit of south african artist
Marcus Neustetter.
he has this amazing public art project with the South African Large Telescope
http://www.sutherlandreflections.com/
Because of the needs of the observatory the local community in Sutherland
has to avoid light and radio pollution ( South Africa will soon be hosting the
largest radio telescope in the work; SKA https://www.skatelescope.org/
the Square Kilometer Telescope Array ) and in his talks he discussed
the social practice he has developed with the local town of 800 people.
Among other things they have build their own 'observatory' next to the
scientists telescopes: http://www.marcusneustetter.net/?p=621
This project is an excellent example of an art-science project that is
based on socially engaged practice and public art. I will be asking Marcus to
make a comment for our discussion
guillermo I hope you will inject your thoughts as a nano scientist !
Roger Malina
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[Yasmin_discussions] Announcing YASMIN discussion on LIGHT
yasminers
Guillermo Munoz and I thought we would do a different kind of YASMIN
discussion impulsed
by this year's "International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies
that the 68th Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) adopted
on December 20, 2013, proclaiming 2015 as "International Year of Light
and Light-based Technologies" (IYL 2015).
This theme is also the theme of The 2nd Art, Science, City
International Conference 201 in Valencia this coming October
which will bring the art, science and technology community together
around problematics of the build urban environment.
http://www.artsciencecity.com/?lang=en
The deadline for abstracts is April 6 !!
We will also be holding a YASMIN meeting during the conference
organised by Guillermo Munoz
We look forward to your contributions to the YASMIN discussion
beginning next week on the
YASMIN discussion list
http://estia.media.uoa.gr/mailman/roster/yasmin_discussions
Roger Malina and Guillermo Munoz
The 2nd Art, Science, City International Conference 2015 aims to
promote interdisciplinary research on techno-scientific culture in
contemporary societies and its impact on the ways of life, paying
special attention to the impact of imaging technologies in urban
contexts.
The conference is organized by the Master of Visual Arts and
Multimedia of the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) and the
University of the Basque Country / Euskal Herriko Unibersitatea (EHU)
to encourage and develop research projects that contribute to bridge
the gap between academia, professional practice and citizens, and also
between science and humanities.
This second edition of the conference offers an interdisciplinary
forum to discuss the most relevant experiences around the relationship
of art + science + city, placing light as the transversal structure.
Light understood from the complexity of its dual nature
(wave-particle) both in technological applications and theoretical
discourse; recognising light-based technologies and innovations that
are transforming communications, energy resources, new methods of
medical diagnosis and treatments, and their influence on our culture
and ways of visualization. That is why we propose as a general topic:
Light, more light ! = Visuality :: Energy :: Connectivity
The choice of the conference theme comes from the resolution of the
68th Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN)
adopted on December 20, 2013, proclaiming 2015 as "International Year
of Light and Light-based Technologies" (IYL 2015).
Taking these themes
as reference, the congress will be structured around four thematic
panels, and the Creative Room, that will host the speakers'
dissertations.
Panel 1: Light [+] Visuality
Panel 2: Light [+] Energy
Panel 3: Light [+] Connectivity
Panel 4: Light [+] Light/Light + Darkness
Creative Room: Spectrum:: Light/Art [+] Science [+] City
Light [+] Innovation :: Technology Demonstrations; Information Boards
Light [+] Innovation aims at providing all ASC Conference participants
with the opportunity to meet companies and research organizations
which are actively developing light-based technologies. It will be a
space for technology demonstrations and information boards which will
encourage and facilitate the meeting of universities, business, local
associations and institutions.
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Monday, March 16, 2015
[Yasmin_discussions] Proceedings of the La Clusaz Conference on Doctoral Education in Design Free for Use
Dear Colleague,
This note answers a repeated question on how others may use, reproduce, and share the proceedings of the La Clusaz Conference on Doctoral Education in Design.
This is an open-access digital edition in .pdf format. Anyone is free to use it or share it as they wish. It is permissible to add it to digital resource collections, digital library collections, educational web sites, or personal web sites.
The reference is:
Durling, David and Ken Friedman, editors. 2000. Doctoral Education in Design. Foundations for the Future. Proceedings of the La Clusaz Conference, July 8-12, 2000. Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom: Staffordshire University Press.
You will find a full downloadable copy in the "PhD Training, Skills, and Supervision" section of my Academia page at:
https://swinburne.academia.edu/KenFriedman
The Table of Contents appears below.
Best regards,
Ken Friedman
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Doctoral Education in Design. Foundations for the Future. Proceedings of the La Clusaz Conference.
—
Session 1: Philosophies and theories of design
Design knowledge: Context, content and continuity - Ken Friedman
Towards a poetics of designing - Keith Russell
Design as being in service - Harold Nelson & Erik Stolterman
Design and existential meaning - Jan Verwijnen
A philosophical home for design - Charles Owen
A meta-theoretical basis for design theory - Terence Love
Propositions of human-centeredness: A philosophy for design - Klaus Krippendorff
An interpretive-contextual framework for research in and through design - Jill Franz
Meanwhile, back on the ranch - Cal Swann
The foundations of interaction design: Philosophy and the ecology of design culture - Richard Buchanan
Design and evolution - John Broadbent & Steve Harfield
Design as a discipline - Nigel Cross
Toward a philosophy of science for design research. An heuristic approach - Johan Olaisen & Ken Friedman
How design creates value: Some elements of a research program - Tore Kristensen
Designing in a situated domain. - Stefano Maffei & Francesco Zurlo
On reason and habit: An Aristotelian approach to design theory - Susan Stewart
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Session 2: Foundations and methods of design research
Constructing knowledge of design, part 1: Understanding concepts in design research - Keiichi Sato
Constructing knowledge of design, part 2: Questions - an approach to design research - Sharon Helmer Poggenpohl
Research methods for design science research - John S Gero
The integrated conglomerate approach: A suggestion for a generic model of design research - Birger Sevaldson
Patterns of visual perception - Norman Sheehan
Pedagogy with primates - Christena Nippert-Eng
Some experiences in creating the foundation and methods of design research in Finland - Pirkko Anttila
Sokalled language theory - Marion Roberts & Fergus Carnegie
On method: The problem of objectivity - Michael A R Biggs
Knowledge of context and its benefits for design professions - Stephen Awoniyi
Researching designing: Cycles of design research - Robert Jerrard
Theoretical perspectives, design research and the PhD thesis - Terence Love
Complexity, uncertainty, adaptability: Reflections around design research - Silvia Pizzocaro
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Session 3: Form and structure for the doctorate in design
A background to doctoral awards - Bruce Archer
Theoretical perspectives in the PhD thesis: How many? - Terence Love
Art and technology: A new unit? - Pelle Ehn & Carl Henrik Svenstedt
New structures of design education as basis for a doctoral thesis in design - Ralph Bruder
The development of research education and training in art and design - Darren Newbury
Journeymen and salarymen. Design doctorates in Japan. - John P. Shackleton & Kazuo Sugiyama
Not everything made of steel is a battleship - John Langrish
A turning point: The very first PhD program in industrial design in Taiwan - Kuohsiang Chen
Design in the UK: Some reflections on the emerging PhD - David Durling
Initiating an interdisciplinary doctoral program - Michael D. Kroelinger & Jacques R. Giard
Leading the field or behind the times? Doctoral research in typography and graphic communication - Sue Walker
Universities and design research - Vasco A. Branco, Joao Branco, Carlos Aguiar Pinto & Francisco Providencia
Myth or reality: Architectural research - Donald Dunbar
Form and structure of the doctorate in design: Prelude to a multilogue - Ken Friedman
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Session 4: The relationship between practice and research
Problems and benefits of building a research-based design curriculum - Lorraine Justice
Towards the operationalisation of design research as reflection in and on action and practice - Stephen AR Scrivener
Knowledge and the artefact - Chris Rust, Scott Hawkins, Graham Whiteley, Adrian Wilson & James Roddis
Educating the practice-based researcher - Julian Malins & Carole Gray
Grounding research in practice - Sidney Newton & Tim Marshall
What could art learn from design, what might design learn from art? - Beryl Graham
Activity theory in a "trading zone" for design research and practice - Judith Gregory
Design research and the wealth of nations - Pekka Korvenmaa
Triad collaboration between school, industry and government for bridging research and practice in design - Kun-Pyo Lee
Research by design - John Redmond
Artifact versus text in design research - Lars-Henrik Stahl
Experiencing architecture: From practice to research - Henrika Ojala
Cross-functional and inter-disciplinary integration for doctoral education in design - Brynjulf Tellefsen
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Sunday, March 8, 2015
[Yasmin_discussions] Proceedings of the La Clusaz Conference on Doctoral Education in Design Now Online
Dear Colleague,
David Durling and I have released the proceedings of the La Clusaz Conference on Doctoral Education in Design as an open-access digital edition in .pdf format. This is a page-for-page scan of the original edition.
Durling, David and Ken Friedman, editors. 2000. Doctoral Education in Design. Foundations for the Future. Proceedings of the La Clusaz Conference, July 8-12, 2000. Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom: Staffordshire University Press.
While the file is quite large, it is high quality and easy to use, with hyperlinks that go from the table of contents direct to each chapter.
You will find a full downloadable copy in the "PhD Training, Skills, and Supervision" section of my Academia page at:
https://swinburne.academia.edu/KenFriedman
The Table of Contents follows.
Best regards,
Ken Friedman
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Doctoral Education in Design. Foundations for the Future. Proceedings of the La Clusaz Conference.
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Session 1: Philosophies and theories of design
Design knowledge: Context, content and continuity - Ken Friedman
Towards a poetics of designing - Keith Russell
Design as being in service - Harold Nelson & Erik Stolterman
Design and existential meaning - Jan Verwijnen
A philosophical home for design - Charles Owen
A meta-theoretical basis for design theory - Terence Love
Propositions of human-centeredness: A philosophy for design - Klaus Krippendorff
An interpretive-contextual framework for research in and through design - Jill Franz
Meanwhile, back on the ranch - Cal Swann
The foundations of interaction design: Philosophy and the ecology of design culture - Richard Buchanan
Design and evolution - John Broadbent & Steve Harfield
Design as a discipline - Nigel Cross
Toward a philosophy of science for design research. An heuristic approach - Johan Olaisen & Ken Friedman
How design creates value: Some elements of a research program - Tore Kristensen
Designing in a situated domain. - Stefano Maffei & Francesco Zurlo
On reason and habit: An Aristotelian approach to design theory - Susan Stewart
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Session 2: Foundations and methods of design research
Constructing knowledge of design, part 1: Understanding concepts in design research - Keiichi Sato
Constructing knowledge of design, part 2: Questions - an approach to design research - Sharon Helmer Poggenpohl
Research methods for design science research - John S Gero
The integrated conglomerate approach: A suggestion for a generic model of design research - Birger Sevaldson
Patterns of visual perception - Norman Sheehan
Pedagogy with primates: Exploring the craft of fieldwork and user-centered design - Christena Nippert-Eng
Some experiences in creating the foundation and methods of design research in Finland - Pirkko Anttila
Sokalled language theory: Lessons for the philosophy of science from urban design? - Marion Roberts & Fergus Carnegie
On method: The problem of objectivity - Michael A R Biggs
Knowledge of context and its benefits for design professions - Stephen Awoniyi
Researching designing: Cycles of design research - Robert Jerrard
Theoretical perspectives, design research and the PhD thesis - Terence Love
Complexity, uncertainty, adaptability: Reflections around design research - Silvia Pizzocaro
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Session 3: Form and structure for the doctorate in design
A background to doctoral awards - Bruce Archer
Theoretical perspectives in the PhD thesis: How many? - Terence Love
Art and technology: A new unit? - Pelle Ehn & Carl Henrik Svenstedt
New structures of design education as basis for a doctoral thesis in design - Ralph Bruder
The development of research education and training in art and design: A personal view - Darren Newbury
Journeymen and salarymen. Design doctorates in Japan. - John P. Shackleton & Kazuo Sugiyama
Not everything made of steel is a battleship - John Langrish
A turning point: The very first PhD program in industrial design in Taiwan - Kuohsiang Chen
Design in the UK: Some reflections on the emerging PhD - David Durling
Initiating an interdisciplinary doctoral program: Perspectives from a new program - Michael D. Kroelinger & Jacques R. Giard
Leading the field or behind the times? Doctoral research in typography and graphic communication - Sue Walker
Universities and design research - Vasco A. Branco, Joao Branco, Carlos Aguiar Pinto & Francisco Providencia
Myth or reality: Architectural research - Donald Dunbar
Form and structure of the doctorate in design: Prelude to a multilogue - Ken Friedman
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Session 4: The relationship between practice and research
Problems and benefits of building a research-based design curriculum - Lorraine Justice
Towards the operationalisation of design research as reflection in and on action and practice - Stephen AR Scrivener
Knowledge and the artefact - Chris Rust, Scott Hawkins, Graham Whiteley, Adrian Wilson & James Roddis
Educating the practice-based researcher: Developing new environments for collaborative and constructive learning - Julian Malins & Carole Gray
Grounding research in practice - Sidney Newton & Tim Marshall
What could art learn from design, what might design learn from art? Some practice-based art doctorates. - Beryl Graham
Activity theory in a "trading zone" for design research and practice - Judith Gregory
Design research and the wealth of nations - Pekka Korvenmaa
Triad collaboration between school, industry and government for bridging research and practice in design - Kun-Pyo Lee
Research by design - John Redmond
Artifact versus text in design research - Lars-Henrik Stahl
Experiencing architecture: From practice to research - Henrika Ojala
Cross-functional and inter-disciplinary integration for doctoral education in design - Brynjulf Tellefsen
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