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Nov 14

James Irwin:
Six Square Meters of RAM, 2010.
Radar absorbent material, anodised aluminium, white acrylic, MDF.
315 x 220 x 60cm.

Placed at the entrance to the exhibition space, Six square meters of RAM isolates the gallery behind it from external wireless and social networks. Carbon foam pyramids of Radar Absorbant Material prevent electromagnetic and sound waves from entering the room, and the gallery remains a space for isolated contemplation.

This work is a visual meme for Robert Barry’s Carrier Wave works done in the 1960’s. A title plaque for one of Barry’s works in a gallery might read like so:

Robert Barry:
90 mc Carrier Wave (FM), 1968.
[FM carrier wave with silence.]

In these works Barry installs a low power radio transmitter, broadcasting a ‘silent’ transmission, which obliterates all other radio singles within the range of its influence ie the immediate area of the gallery. 

http://www.publicartscotland.com/features/9-Dans-l-air-du-Soir-Notes-on-Ambient-Art

Sep 14

Tadashi Kawamata

The Chairs of crosses, Tadashi Kawamata, 1998

http://blog.e-artplastic.net/index.php?post/2010/01/27/Petits-bouleversements-mais-effets-garantis

http://linka-me.blogspot.com/2009/04/tadashi-kawamata.html

tree houses

http://www.powersiteblog.com/2010/02/08/amazing-tree-houses

Chongqing, China

photo by wolfmars flikr

http://www.treehotel.se/

Sep 13

neutrino

http://lappweb06.in2p3.fr/neutrinos/anexp.html

The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) is a second generation dedicated solar neutrino experiment which has extended the results of our work with the Kamiokande II detector by measuring three reactions of solar neutrinos rather than the single reaction measured by the Kamiokande and SuperKamiokande experiments. The collaborative project includes physicists from Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

https://lanldb1.lanl.gov/wi/home.nsf/navigators/C0B8AFA5DAD06B4687256A6B00651894?OpenDocument

Physicist Ray Davis stands in the chamber of the neutrino detector at Homestake in 1955.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124606199658363745.html 

One of the first neutrino detection photo, taken on November 13, 1970. Neutrinos in the graph and the performance is not directly, but through the tracks of other particles out of speculation.(Photo courtesy: Argonne National Laboratory)

http://bzhang.lamost.org/website/archives/modern_instr_neutrino/

Above: A photo of the SNO detector showing the completed acrylic plastic sphere (12 m in diameter) surrounded by a stainless steel geodesic sphere containing many of SNO’s 9600 light sensors. The detector wascompleted by finishing the light sensor panel installation in the geodesic, removing the bottom platform in the SNO cavity, sealing a lower exit from the cavity via a bulkhead, and filling with water. (Bob Chambers, SNO)

http://www.ieee.ca/millennium/neutrino/sno_eye.html

An aerial view of the Fermilab accelerator just outside Chicago. The accelerator produces head-on collisions between 1 TeV protons and anti-protons which are detected by the CDF detector which is searching for the Higgs Boson and a beam of muon neutrinos which are being detected by the MINOS detectors measuring the phenomena of neutrino oscillations.

Photo: Dr Mark Lancaster
http://www.theory.phys.ucl.ac.uk/Physics_Views 

Baikal Detectors
http://icecube.wisc.edu/info/neutrinos/

Inspecting the neutrino detector under construction in the Homestake gold mine in 1965. Image courtesy Sanford Underground Laboratory at Homestake

A laboratory 4,850 feet underground in the Homestake gold mine in Lead, South Dakota, helped start a revolution in physics. 

Super-Kamiokande neutrino detector - Japan

http://www-sk.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/sk/gallery/index-e.html

Aug 21

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To the popular press, “hacker” means someone who breaks into computers. Among programmers it means a good programmer. But the two meanings are connected. To programmers, “hacker” connotes mastery in the most literal sense: someone who can make a computer do what he wants—whether the computer wants to or not.

Paul Graham is :
Paul Graham is an essayist, programmer, and investor. In 1995 he developed with Robert Morris the first web-based application, Viaweb, which was acquired by Yahoo in 1998. In 2002 he described a simple statistical spam filter that inspired a new generation of filters. In 2005 he was one of the founders of Y Combinator. He and Robert Morris are currently working on a new Lisp dialect called Arc

Paul is the author of On Lisp (Prentice Hall, 1993), ANSI Common Lisp (Prentice Hall, 1995), and Hackers & Painters (O’Reilly, 2004). He has an AB from Cornell and a PhD in Computer Science from Harvard, and studied painting at RISD and the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence.

Aug 19

Alexander Gutke