Thread by a PhD student trying to track Naked Mole rats in NYC by using a MakeyMakey system (conductance). They say “Apparently naked mole rats have an incredibly high electrical resistance” Not sure this is of any use to me, but may be worth contacting them to compare datasets etc… via Naked mole rat training.
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A Taxonomy of Data Types
A Taxonomy of Data Types – Statistical Machine Learning and Visualization. A table of data types that refers to distribution, for example: type: categoric atom example: word in Eng Lang distribution example: Multinomial (1,theta) This taxonomy at the technical end of the data type spectrum and is unlikely to be used by artists. — It… Continue reading A Taxonomy of Data Types
Global Sequencer
Ed Carter and Matt Jarvis Global Sequencer Overview from Matt Jarvis on Vimeo. via Global Sequencer Overview on Vimeo. Commissioned by CultureCode, Ed Carter and Matt Jarvis created an audio visual experience from a dataset of their previously commissioned EyeProject. Using latitude and longitude coordinates, the map is designed to create sound from any location-based… Continue reading Global Sequencer
Antennae The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture
Data Engineering
This is an important concept when considering data as an art material. Should the data take the lead in the work, will it be the defining factor rather than something plugged-in afterwards (this is an issue for my current thinking in constructing a physical work that can cater for various data streams)… Data Engineering Posted:… Continue reading Data Engineering
PIT tagging
The Age of Empathy [bk]
Thematic analysis
Thematic analysis – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Thematic analysis is the most common form of analysis in qualitative research.[1] It emphasizes pinpointing, examining, and recording patterns (or “themes”) within data.[2] Themes are patterns across data sets that are important to the description of a phenomenon and are associated to a specific research question.[3] The themes become the categories for analysis.[4] Thematic analysis is performed through the process of coding in six phases to create established, meaningful patterns. These phases are: familiarization with data, generating initial codes, searching for themes among codes, reviewing themes, defining and naming themes, and producing the final report.[5]
Air Muscles
Air Muscles. from Shadow Robot Company
The Air Muscle is an extraordinary actuator that is small, light, simple and ‘friendly’. It is soft, has no stiction, is easily controllable and exceptionally powerful. It is a linear actuator, producing motion along a straight line and opening a whole new range of design possibilities.
Art Forms from the Ocean: Ernst Haeckel
SMART Home
Videos from the SMART research group: http://www.youtube.com/user/SMARTQMUL actuators and sensors Queen Mary SMART research group – head – Federico Carpi The main research focus of the group is on biomedical & bioinspired mechatronic devices made of smart materials. The group moves from the experience that Dr Carpi has matured in twelve years of research activity at… Continue reading SMART Home
SiReBi
Biosensing deals with the collection of information from living systems. Due to advancements in the life sciences, electronics fabrication and data management, deeper and deeper levels of bio-data can be gathered. Pervasive sensing systems, and biosensing in particular, define a new chapter in the use of technical systems to monitor life and the human body.… Continue reading SiReBi
marc böhlen: glass bottom float
marc böhlen: glass bottom float. The Glass Bottom Float (GBF) is a floating public robot with the mission of making the critical assessment of recreational water quality a transparent and participatory experience W.G Sebald might have appreciated. GBF cruises along a beach shore, and offers itself as a resting spot in places it deems… Continue reading marc böhlen: glass bottom float
marc böhlen: advanced perception chickens & robot
marc böhlen: advanced perception. Advanced Perception ( 1999 – 2000 ) early animal machine interaction experiments This project was an early experiment in mixing machines and animal societies. Three chickens, Rhode Island Red hens, were held in a spacious cage together with a mobile robot for 60 days. The robot was programmed to share the… Continue reading marc böhlen: advanced perception chickens & robot
Blog | The Shape of Data | Exploring the geometry behind machine learning, data mining, etc.
Blog | The Shape of Data | Exploring the geometry behind machine learning, data mining, etc..
Artists who work with Science Links
Douglas Rushkoff on Ed Snowden & PRISM
Douglas Rushkoff – Blog – CNN: Ed Snowden – Human Hero Intervenes on Machine Logic. Yet it wasn’t just fear keeping people from talking about the growing cyber-surveillance state, but a sense of inevitability. This is just how technology evolves – at least when it’s uncontested. Everyone knows, or should know, that everything we type… Continue reading Douglas Rushkoff on Ed Snowden & PRISM
Interactive Data Visualization for the Web
The Influencing Machine
Matthews, who signed himself “James, Absolute, Sole, Supreme, Sacred, Omni-Imperious, Arch-Grand, Arch-Sovereign … Arch-Emperor,” thought French agents had placed a magnet in his brain and were manipulating his mind, and those of other important figures, with waves of animal magnetism emitted from an Influencing Machine, which he termed an “air-loom.” via CABINET // The… Continue reading The Influencing Machine
Naked Mole Rats
Chris Faulkes via BBC News – Meet the sabre-toothed sausage.
Cells as living calculators
Cells as living calculators – MIT News Office.
MIT engineers have created synthetic biology circuits that can perform analog computations such as taking logarithms and square roots in living cells.
OpenWorm
OpenWorm aims to develop a fully digital lifeform – a virtual nematode – in a completely open source manner.
OpenWorm raises fascinating questions about what we mean when we say something is alive. If and when this project succeeds in modeling the worm successfully, we’ll be faced with a new and fascinating concept to think with: a virtual organism. Imagine downloading the worm and running it in a virtual petri dish on your computer. What, exactly, will you be looking at? Will you consider it to be alive? What would convince you?
Perhaps creations like the digital C. elegans will start to break down our binary conception of the matter in the world as either living or not living. We’ll discover that we can create systems that exist in-between these two spheres, or that certain aspects of life as we know it are not required to meet our definition of being alive.
Article with contextual refs: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/05/is-this-virtual-worm-the-first-sign-of-the-singularity/275715/
Paper on Monoaminergic Orchestration of Motor Programs in a Complex C. elegans Behavior
Protected: The Internet of Living Things
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Semantic Networks
Semantic Networks by John Sowa
Definitions of various networks. Also good early diagram of this semantic network drawn in 1329.
The Signal & The Noise -Nate Silver
A Life in AdWords, Algorithms & Data Exhaust. Interview with Erica Scourti.
Ontologies – Data Mining, Datatypes, Emotion,
Ontobee: A web server aimed to facilitate ontology visualization, query, and development. Ontobee provides a user-friendly web interface for displaying the details and its hierarchy of a specific ontology term. Meanwhile, Ontobee provides a RDF source code for the particular web page, which supports remote query of the ontology term and theSemantic Web. Ontology Development… Continue reading Ontologies – Data Mining, Datatypes, Emotion,
Uselessness of Art [links]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_art
Oscar Wilde’s quote discussion: http://forums.philosophyforums.com/threads/all-art-is-quite-uselessoscar-wilde-55699.html
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Wikiquote.
The Uselessness of Art (paper: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-6245.2010.01412.x/abstract
Sara Hendren
I like the way Sara talks about herself and her work, and separates her blog and her own work. Use for framework for Trans Nature and Trans Data about |.
Empathy for Robots
Humans Show Empathy for Robots | Human-Robot Interactions | LiveScience. Article about how we empathise with robots – contains refs to studies on monitoring emotional responses. Nice quote near the end: “[Alexander] Reben compared trends in robot development with breeding dogs for companionship. “We have been doing this for millennia,” he said. “I think we’re doing… Continue reading Empathy for Robots
MathFoundations 18: Geometry – YouTube
MathFoundations 18: Geometry – YouTube. How to begin geometry? What is the correct framework? How to define point, line, circle etc etc?These are some of the issues we will be addressing in this first look at the logical foundations of geometry.This lecture is part of the MathFoundations series, which tries to lay out proper foundations… Continue reading MathFoundations 18: Geometry – YouTube
Emergence and Complexity [video]
Emergence and Complexity . (May 21, 2010) Professor Robert Sapolsky gives a lecture on emergence and complexity. He details how a small difference at one place in nature can have a huge effect on a system as time goes on. He calls this idea fractal magnification and applies it to many different systems that exist… Continue reading Emergence and Complexity [video]
Cow herd tracking in real time
Cowsourcing: tracking the health of the herd in real time (Wired UK). Zebra Technologies Corporation and GEA Farm Technologies have developed Cow View for tracking location (to 30cm) and behaviour.
Richard Adams on Science Fiction and Data
Slide deck of talk about data and SF. Some useful refs: Asimov’s The Foundation Series, which contains the idea of psychohistory (Psychohistory* is a fictional science in Isaac Asimov’s Foundation universe which combines history, sociology, etc., and mathematical statistics to make general predictions about the future behavior of very large groups of people), and the… Continue reading Richard Adams on Science Fiction and Data
The Internet Archive
Incredible video on how and what the Internet Archive archive. Huge, huge data collections. Internet Archive on Vimeo.
Periodical cicadas emerge after 17 Years
Timescales and evolution. Differing ratios of life periods. The adult males are snapping rigid plates on their abdomens to produce their courtship song. The females are clicking their wings to signal approval. Marvels and a Few Mysteries in Cicadas’ 17 Years – NYTimes.com. NYT_Cicadas_1894 [PDF] Details of how the dissemination of moles and birds and other… Continue reading Periodical cicadas emerge after 17 Years
Object synchrony
Due to the non static surface the metronomes all sync over a short period of time. This could be a really interesting effect for triggering perceived emergent motion over objects. http://io9.com/5947112/watch-32-discordant-metronomes-achieve-synchrony-in-a-matter-of-minutes
Big, Small, Open Data Definitions
Big Data Definition – MIKE2.0, the open source methodology for Information Development Small Data – by Steve Coast (Open Street Map) What is Open Data? – The ODI Open Definition – OKFN http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/bigdata/ – IBM Big Data – four dimensions: Volume, Velocity, Variety, and Veracity.
The Algorists
“Who are the algorists?” Simply put, algorists are artists who create art using algorithmic procedures that include their own algorithms. This page presents an account of the origin of this usage and the algorithm serving as the “algorist manifesto”. THE ALGORISTS. & Algorithmic Artl
Thaler’s Creativity Machine
Very loose article that doesn’t tell us what an idea or a dream may comprise, so hard to know if the software is indeed creating them. It’s interesting to see how the software is described – very evocative words, but hard to penetrate any actual meaning. ==== “THE FUTURIST recently spoke with Stephen Thaler, inventor… Continue reading Thaler’s Creativity Machine
Tiny robot flies like a fly
Tiny robot flies like a fly : Nature News & Comment.
Definitions [Animacy, Animism …]
ANIMACY (plural animacies) [wiktionary] (linguistics) The characteristic of a noun, in some languages, that is dependent on its living or sentient nature; this characteristic affects grammatical features (it can modify verbs used with the noun, affect the noun’s declension etc). ANIMISM [mirriam webster] a doctrine that the vital principle of organic development is immaterial spirit… Continue reading Definitions [Animacy, Animism …]
Heidegger – The Question Concerning Technology
The Question Concerning Technology – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Open Access (QMUL)
http://qmplus.qmul.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=2998
Platonic Solids
Platonic Solid — from Wolfram MathWorld. The Platonic solids, also called the regular solids or regular polyhedra, are convex polyhedra with equivalent faces composed of congruent convexregular polygons. There are exactly five such solids (Steinhaus 1999, pp. 252-256): the cube, dodecahedron, icosahedron, octahedron, and tetrahedron, as was proved by Euclid in the last proposition of the Elements. The Platonic solids are sometimes also called “cosmic… Continue reading Platonic Solids
Animism as a Metaphor for Interaction Design | Philip van Allen
These concept videos show connected objects, effectively browsing all at once using different semantic web searches (nostalgic, future-thinking, etc). The use of the word animism is odd, as they are simply device given anthropomorphised descriptions. Animism as a Metaphor for Interaction Design | Philip van Allen.
Writing Skeletons
“In order to get into the hang of academic writing it is sometimes helpful to examine closely the way in which other writers structure their work. Swales and Feak offer the use of skeleton sentences to achieve this. This where all of the content is stripped out of a paragraph in order to reveal the syntactic moves.… Continue reading Writing Skeletons
MacroData and MicroData
Noted on Big and Small data, and why we aren’t following micro/macro naming conventions? In my view Micro Data tells us about the minutiae of life, the plot of an ant, a single twitter user, a packets route to a remote server. Micro gives us a story from a specific POV, and the context is… Continue reading MacroData and MicroData
Euclid’s Data
EUCLID’S DATA is the first in order of the books written by the ancient geometers to facilitate and promote the method of resolution or analysis. In the general, a thing is said to be given which is either actually exhibited, or can be found out, that is which is either known by hypothesis or that… Continue reading Euclid’s Data
A RadioLab DIY maker project that encourages people to build a cicada tracker to register the 17 year appearance of Magicicada Brood II when the ground 8″ down is a steady 64° F.
The project suggests citizens help predict the arrival by planting a homemade temperature sensor in the ground and reporting findings back to the Radiolab website.
http://project.wnyc.org/cicadas/
Would love to hear the sound that these swarming cicadas will make all the way up the east coast… 7khz of cicada love hum