User:Inge Hoonte/Thesis Research

Museum of Jurassic Technology

(Via Amy)
Mr. Wilson's cabinet of wonder, Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology, Lawrence Weschler - from googlebooks: "Pronged ants, horned humans, a landscape carved on a fruit pit--some of the displays in David Wilson's Museum of Jurassic Technology are hoaxes. But which ones? As he guides readers through an intellectual hall of mirrors, Lawrence Weschler revisits the 16th-century "wonder cabinets" that were the first museums and compels readers to examine the imaginative origins of both art and science. Illustrations."

Museums and Memory, Susan A. Crane, Stanford University press 2000
Geoffrey Sonnabend: Memory is an illusion. Just a human fabrication to deal with fleeting life and irretrieveability of moments and events. Memories are artificial constructions built on experiences that we attempt to make live again by infusions of imaginations. He questions all memory: "there is only experience and its decay," rendering short term memory as the decay of an experience. He was obsessed with how experiences decayed. He created the Model of Obliscence (model of forgetting), in which shapes and forms represent the various attributes that contribute to the process of forgetting. Basically, the Cone of Obliscence intersects the Plane of Experience, which is always in motion. Their intersection is called the Spelean Disc.

The Cult of Remembrance - Paula Findlen

Cern: art&science residency

(Sidetracked with Amy in mind)
A laboratory of the imagination. Currently, there are three ways to combine art & science:

• art as a communicator of science
• science as a means of art production
• science as art

And more subtly:

• art and science in a fluid interchange: oscillations between sameness and differences. Both are driven by curiosity, discovery, the aspiration for knowledge of the world or oneself. But they express themselves in different ways: the arts through the body and mind, often driven by the exploration of the ego, contradictions and the sheer messiness of life; science through equations, directed, collaborative research and experimentation that works in a progressive, linear fashion. As Dr Michael Doser, the experimental physicist on Cern's cultural board for the arts, says: “What I find wonderful about working with artists is that they are just as fascinated by side routes and diversions as they are by the direction in which they are going. This is what makes artistic work really different from scientific work.”

Mariko Mori: A space for connection: "Drawing upon the Buddhist principle that all forms of life in the universe are interconnected, Wave UFO seamlessly united actual individual physical experience with Mori's singular vision of a cosmic dream world. Within the tranquil interior of the work, Mori sent participants, three at a time, on an aesthetic voyage that sought to connect three individuals to each other and to the world at large. "