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Oct
14
2009

Christian Wulffen’s MOCA exhibit, It Is, It Is Not, contemplates how we gather information and decipher the meaning of even basic objects.

informational art

Sep
17
2009

The connection between Darwin, art and Australia is the hook that successfully picks up otherwise disparate historical topics in Jeanette Hoorn's Reframing Darwin. This collection of essays accompanied an exhibition at the Ian Potter Museum of Art in Melbourne and develops some of the links between Darwinism and Australian art already well known from F. W. and J. M. Nicholas's Darwin in Australia. But this book also presents a few entirely surprising associations. With an illustration on every page, Reframing Darwin offers genuinely new and readable scholarship in an elegant package.

Darwin evolution art

Mar
25
2009

In this EdgeVideo, evolutionary biologist Armand Leroi reports on his art/science conversation and collaboration with musician Brian Eno which began when the two sat next to each other an an Edge dinner in London. The dinner discussion began with evolution and music, proceeded to the evolution of music, and led to the following question: has anybody attempted to reconstruct the history of human song? People around the world sing in different ways. Is it possible to retrieve that history. Can we do for songs what we've done for genes, for language?

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Jun
28
2008

"Learning, Arts, and the Brain, a study three years in the making, is the result of research by cognitive neuroscientists from seven leading universities across the United States. In the Dana Consortium study, released in March 2008, researchers grappled with a fundamental question: Are smart people drawn to the arts or does arts training make people smarter?" w/ PDF download (The Dana Consortium Report)

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May
28
2007

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