4/10/2013: WLASze Part 1: Weekend Links on Arts, Sciences and zero economics

This is the first post of WLASze: Weekend Links on Arts, Sciences and zero economics for this weekend. enjoy!


A powerfully stylised and accomplished in technique, yet still young (in age, but even more importantly) in contextualising the meaning artist Andrew Salgado: via Saatchi Online:
http://www.saatchionline.com/andrewsalgado

Moving between the traditions of Euan Uglow (http://theartstack.com/search/Euan%20Uglow)

and
Valery Koshlyakov (http://theartstack.com/artists/valery-koshlyakov)

The maturity is still lacking, though, hence rather over-dramatised treatment of portraits, but overall - Salgado is a promising artist in great line of tradition…


From Tanzania to China: 18 absolutely fascinating landscapes on Earth:
.businessinsider.com/the-most-surreal-landscapes-on-earth-2013-7?op=1#ixzz2gn6ZDVYw
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-most-surreal-landscapes-on-earth-2013-7#

I covered number 13 before here: http://trueeconomics.blogspot.ie/2013/08/1182013-wlasze-part-2-weekend-links-on.html And I have seen numbers 6, 16, 17 myself… closeup and in person…
One of my favourite places, missing in the above is this:

That's right, the Death Valley. Unbelievably beautiful place.


The chain of innovation being triggered by 3D printers keeps expanding now to 4D printing incorporating materials memory:
http://climateerinvest.blogspot.ch/2013/10/ja-ja-you-have-your-little-3d-printer.html
So run this chain into the future:
Set A= {3D Printing + 4D Materials}
Set B= {"microfluidic" computer chips + DNA Memory}
Set C= {Wearable Tech}

Take sets A + B + C = merger of biotech and materials sciences into a seamless incorporation of all technology with our biological and neurological structures from chips auto-repairs of neurone connections to medicine hunting cancer cells to communications systems that replicate telepathy. Pretty soon - morning make up will not only shape our faces, but also carry our memory files, while our bodies act as "projection screens" for anyone we want to communicate with in, say, presenting business plan 'powerpoint' slides… keep going...

For set B see: http://trueeconomics.blogspot.ie/2013/09/2792013-wlasze-part-1-weekend-links-on.html


Amazing imagery from Tanzania shot by Nick Brandt
http://gizmodo.com/any-animal-that-touches-this-lethal-lake-turns-to-stone-1436606506?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_facebook&utm_source=gizmodo_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

Brandt's work can be seen here: http://www.nickbrandt.com/index.cfm


Nice to see WordlessTech.com profiling the visualisations of mathematical constants by Martin Krzywinski - http://wordlesstech.com/2013/10/03/round-art-pi/. I featured his work twice:
http://trueeconomics.blogspot.ie/2013/08/3182013-wlasze-part-1-weekend-links-on.html
http://trueeconomics.blogspot.ie/2013/07/2072013-wlasze-part-2-weekend-links-on.html

Though, unlike WorldlessTech.com - I wouldn't call him an artist in a strict sense. rather he is a visualisation scientist - a category of science that is somewhere between art and science in a normal sense. Maybe - it is just a branch of mathematics?.. Here is a snapshot of his fascinatingly intricate and deep work on 'accidental similarity': http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/accidental-similarity/

A fascinating show in London's David Zwirner Gallery by Philip-Lorca diCorcia http://www.davidzwirner.com/artists/philip-lorca-dicorcia/survey/

There is amazingly nostalgic, sensitivity-filled space to his compositions, Hockney'esque
More of his work: http://theartstack.com/artists/philip-lorca-dicorcia
One of my favourites:

Stay tuned for more…

31/8/2013: WLASze Part 1: Weekend Links on Arts, Sciences and Zero Economics

This is the first WLASze: Weekend Links on Arts, Sciences and zero economics post for this weekend, so enjoy and stay tuned for more.


Random complexity arising out of the hand-drawn patterns virtually freely visually narrated by Marlene Huissoud are creating interesting, dynamic textures in these drawings and textiles:

Artist website: http://www.marlene-huissoud.com/ It is an object of utilitarian design (hence the 'shop' section of her website), but in my opinion it is an expression of art - non-conceptually driven compositional flow that explores dynamic of line and space absent a premeditated attempt at a composition.

Cy Twombly being the pioneer here, and there are indirect parallels to Lucio Fontana. In a distinct approach, the line drawings of Egon Schiele were actually figurative, hence non-random. Yet they are all united by the simple difference between human error / deviation that distinguishes them from replicative mathematical chaos and makes each line uniquely determined when it is created by a person.


Returning back to last week's theme of the Venice Biennale: some additional links relating to previous notes on the exhibition:
Russian pavilion: 

• http://it.phaidon.com/agenda/art/articles/2013/june/03/venice-biennale-the-russian-pavilion/
• http://artdaily.com/news/62974/Russian-pavilion-in-Venice-turns-around-the-ancient-Greek-myth-of-Danae
• http://vernissage.tv/blog/2013/06/14/vadim-zakharov-danae-russian-pavilion-at-the-venice-biennale-2013/

Spanish rock garden:

• http://www.designboom.com/art/spanish-pavilion-at-the-55th-international-art-exhibition/

Retrospective of national pavilions: 

• http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/venice-biennale/10088917/Venice-Biennale-2013-National-pavilions-round-up.html

Out of the Biennale's 'rock halls' into rock sculpture project by the Next Fab Studio by Gabriel Boyce and Preston. The duo constructed a "simple, organic rock" "using digital fabrication equipment". NextFab "developed a Rhino model of the rock, which was digitally divided into sections and cut from acrylic on NextFab's laser cutter. Gabriel and Preston then assembled the 150-plus sections into the complete ROCK sculpture." Daft? Not really - rather quite striking:

An interesting story from the city that is currently assessing its art collection for sale: Detroit. Detroit's brilliant DIA (I cited its excellent collection earlier here) has digitalised its world-famous Diego Rivera murals. The story of digitalisation is here.

Digitalising works of art is a superbly challenging technical and mathematical problem, even though it seems like a relatively simple task. The most fascinating story of digitalisation of art was written up back in 2005 by the NewYorker: http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/04/11/050411fa_fact. It tells the story of two applied mathematics geniuses you won't hear much about, David and Gregory Chudnovsky:

The duo have pioneered the algorithmic approach to large scale digitalisations. Humorous take on their fascination with visualising mathematics is the floor of the Chudnovskys' lab at Brooklyn Polytechnic University which bears an orbital pattern mapping of mathematical equations

What a brilliant link: from the decay of the fractal definition to the decay of the entire city and onto eternity of mathematics and art… to large scale numerical computations… from Communist Ukraine to Communist murals… See more on the two: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3210/04-chud-06.html and at http://www.math.poly.edu/people/faculty.phtml. Oh, and the murals, of course: http://it.phaidon.com/agenda/art/articles/2013/august/08/detroit-digitizes-its-diego-rivera-murals/

Do note, Chudnovsky's worked extensively on 'pi'. I covered the visualisations of 'pi' before here.  So for some additional images: pi, fi, e, combined from the above-linked posts by Martin Krzywinski (http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/pi/art/):

Now on to science: the geeks have been armed with a HD camera and a submarine… outcome: live broadcast of an eruption of the underwater volcano. Here are the videos (H/T to ‏@alexwitze): http://www.interactiveoceans.washington.edu/story/Visions%2713+Videos. They'll be back with live stuff in 2014… smokey stuff… maybe they can roast some marshmallows on that Axial Caldera next.


In case you need a dose of laughter after all this heavy heady maths, here's some humorous take on the subject: http://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2013/08/21/five-math-experts-split-the-check/


Geeks with cameras and formulas above, followed by geeks with computer codes next: an amazing story about the Israeli army tech-intelligence unit that is behind some major ICT innovations and entrepreneurs. The story really goes to the heart of learning-by-doing models of training (via @GPIngersoll and @BI_Defense): http://www.businessinsider.com/best-tech-school-is-israels-unit-8200-2013-8. The story also highlights the non-linear nature of human capital formation. Military leadership has always been at a premium in the civilian business life, but now direct skills are also becoming marketable.

And to further illustrate the same points, here's the 'governmentorial' - a promotional site for NASA claims of contribution to civilian everyday world: http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/technologies/spinoffs.html
Est Cool… But not to get too futuristic with all of this tech: although the space age might be relatively young, our capacity innovate in relation to space is not… back in ancient Egypt, meteorites were deemed to be valuable enough to make it into jewellery:
http://scinewsblog.blogspot.ie/2013/08/ancient-egyptian-iron-beads-were-made.html


Stay tuned for more WLASze links later.