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Truck Run 2018
Today, Andy and I joined the yearly Truck Run
organized by De
Tukker Truckers, just like we did two years
ago. The GPS-track of how we drove in KML file
for Google Earth.
Neuro revolution
In the evening, I went to a talk held at Tetem art
space, under the title: Wie willen we zijn in de eeuw van de
neurorevolutie? (Who do I want to be in the age of neuro
revolution?) by Femke Nijboer.
What follows is based on notes that I took.
The idea that we are living in the age of neuro revolution, was introduced in
2009 by Zack Lynch in his book The Neuro Revolution: How Brain Science Is
Changing Our World. Some developments are: An already widely used
technology like deep brain stimulation. Facebook is working on technology to read thoughts
through brain waves. Research into detecting truth through analyzing brain
waves. In the future we might be able to detect if pedophiles have been
'cured'. There are now already companies working on
neuromarketing.
What do these develops say about ourselves? Nijboer showed some pictures
from movies with
cyborgs:
Brainstorm,
Star Trek:
First Contact,
Avatar,
X-men,
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,
and Inception.
Someone suggestiond from the public were
RoboCop and
The Matrix.
That thinking happens in the brain, has been known for a long time. There are
evidences that the Inca's already performed neurosurgery. The discovery electricity is involved in the brain was
done in the eighteenth century. Three stories from present day reality:
- Deep brain stimulation with people with Parkinson. It works, but it seems
that with some people it also changes their personality. One example was
reported by Leentjes et al in Ned Geneeskundig Tijdschrift, 2004.
- Hanneke de Bruijne, a woman with ALS, used a Brain Computer Interface to
'talk' through thoughts.
- Neil Harbisson,
who calls himself the first cyborg.
What are usefull brain interfaces? Quote: We put our hope in technology, but
we trust in nature. Nijboer told about the project
Bridging the gap between ethics and neurotechnology: the case of
Brain-Computer Interfaces | 2012-2016. It involved patients with
progressive musculariscular diseases, high span cord injury, locked-in
syndrome. The looked at worhtiness, autonomy, inclussion, safety, and
self-expression. They discovered that patients found it important to express
their emotions. To tech or not to tech, that's the question. What is the use of
BCI when their is nobody to communicate with. What about the cyborg appearance.
An example of a father who got a tattoo of cochlear implant. They organized
a Neurocatwalk to open the discussion about aesthetics of devices to aid
people with a diability.
Nijboer closed with the questions: Who do you want to be? Who do you want to
become?
8 by 8 with fixed palette
In the past weeks, I worked on a new version of the animation based on the
8 by 8 Street Tile Patterns. I used these
patterns before for the Bring Your Own Beamer events at Tetem art space in 2017 and 2018. However, this animation makes use of a fixed colour palette
consisting of 30 colours in five different intensities. I spend a lot of time
adjusting certain parameters to make each level look the same intensity, but
it seems one almost has to fix each colour exactly. I am also afraid that the
it also depends on the monitor and the colour temperature settings in use. I
made a separate page for the animation.
I might update this page on a later date, because I still not completely
satisified with everything and I also thinking about a method to specify your
own palette.
I went to photo gallery Objektief for the opening of the exhibition Under
Sweet Surveillance with works from four young photographers, who are:
The nature of a map in data modelling
For many years, I have been wrestling with trying to combine my ideas of
components with that of a map (as a partial function) of keys to values. This
afternoon, I realized that such a map can be viewed as a set with a uniqueness
constraint. And that it is possible to have multiple uniqueness constrains on
a set. Strange, that this has not occured to me before, because that is
basically how tables in relational databases are often defined, usually by
defining a primary key, defining a uniqueness constraint or declaring an index
with uniqueness requirement. The reason is probably, because I view relational
database as an implementation model with limitations with respect to complex
data structures. (Relational databases force you to put all similar values
into one predefine table.)
The Monads
At the end of the afternoon, I went to Tetem art
space for the opening of the exhibition
The Monads with
an installation by Gabey Tjon a
Tham. The introduction was by the composer and sound artist Horst Rickles.
During his introduction, he explained that the monad concept is the concept
as meant by Gottfried Leibniz. He 'opened' the exhibition with giving a performance
with a small bullroarer,
as an example of a monad, swinging it slowly above his head and made it produce
different tones.
AKI finals 2018
This afternoon, I went to the AKI finals 2018 exhibition at the AKI building. Andy game with me. We listened to the opening speech and walked through
the building. I found the works of the following graduated students
noteworthy (in the order I encountered them):
At 16:58, I bought the catalog AKI FINALS 2018 edited by Johan Visser,
written in Dutch and English, and published by AKI ArtEZ on Friday, June 29,
2018, ISBN:9789075522396, for € 10.00.
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