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I finally managed to translate my article for the conference proceedings of the NMI2006 conference from german into english. There are a few additions, which are not included in the german version.

The article is a description of our installation seidesein. It gives an account on our motivations for creating seidesein but it explains a bit also our motivation for other daytar works.

The article is for download >>here or directly via the seidesein page.

I am very grateful for any feedback on this article.

this is a follow up to this post

Today I am digging out a historical milestone in mathematical visualization.

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When Matthew Barney spoke on saturday (see last post) about screens in rooms and the attraction they emanate, I was immediately getting this eerie video by Guthrie Lonergan in my head. It displays empty work places/home entertainment centers, fake and cheap strings and the empty virtual world behind the screen.

It was posted last friday on rhizome (via Tom Moody) by Marisa Olson.

Yesterday the exhibition “All in the Present Must Be Transformed” featuring the artists Matthew Barney and Joseph Beuys opened with an interview with Matthew Barney at the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin.

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A conference in Luzern/Lucerne in 2007 about Consciousness and Quantumcomputers.
The announcement mentions Anton Zeillinger (wikipedia link) and Roger Penrose (wikipedia link) and the Dalai Lama in their intro, but unfortunately as it seems neither of them is among the speakers..:)..but whatsoever — there are still enough interesting speakers and it is an important topic to discuss.

the gallery has a torus logo!

In my previous post I wrote about an experiment of looped sound. Today’s post is about an experiment with “looped” ( i.e. periodic) light…rather known under the term strobe light.

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Via cosmicvariance (Clifford) I found this very nice podcast by radiolab.org at New Yorks public radio WNYC.

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Sometimes its better to be unvisible.
This is not so impossible.
I.e. the theory is developped at various places, e.g. here at St. Andrews by physicist Ulf Leonhardt who has an easy to read introduction to the field.

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Optical character recognition, usually abbreviated to OCR, is computer software designed to translate images of handwritten or typewritten text (usually captured by a scanner or a digitizer) into machine processable text. OCR is e.g. commercially used in PDA’s However “handwritten” characters do not need to be constrained to letters or simple symbols but could also be more complex shapes, if necessary also in 3D. The recognition of such shapes can also be interpreted as gesture recognition.

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