Meta-Science Fiction

How about meta-science-fiction? HA! Science fiction, yes. Post-modern, yes. I think it's brilliant, this story of a time-machine repairman. In Yu's universe, time travel requires setting a "Tense Operator".... "I broke the Tense Operator by living in between tenses"..."I learned about the future tense, how anxiety is encoded into our sentences, our conditionals, our thoughts, how worry is encoded into language itself, into grammar."

This book is all about time and how we talk about it.

His "Tense Operator has been set to Present-Indefinite."

an excerpt from Yu's book.

Antikythera Mechanism

High tech x-rays and scans reveal some to the secrets of the ancient clock discovered 100 years ago by divers off the Greek island Antikythera. Mike Edmunds of the University of Cardiff is one of the scientific team working on this project. The project website provides some information, as does a 2007 NewYorker article and many additional websites. Articles from the journal Nature may be accessed through the Marriott Library on-line journal data base.

Rick Moody SURPLUS VALUE BOOKS

Regarding the two Surplus Value Books written by Rick Moody.
Book Artist, Daniel Kelm, produced the second version at his Wide Awake Garage studio. A recent exhibition of Kelm's book art at Smith College provided a video of Kelm discussing the Moody project. Access the exhibition "Poetic Science" here and scroll down to "Surplus Value Books" for Kelm's take on the entire project

Bervin's Dickinson

To continue the delightful conversation.....

Jen Bervin's Dickinson Quilts

About her "odd physical study" of Dickinson's textual marks Bervin writes, "it makes their presence on the facsimile manuscript page more striking, systemic factual--and their omission from typeset poems more evident."

So Why I consider Bervin's Emily project to be OK.

Bervin takes aspects of Dickinson's writing that are traditionally erased and makes them material, exposing to the air some of what attempts to normalize had locked away. I believe this project is important both in regards to other artists' books projects utilizing Dickinson's poems as well as Bervin's Desert and her other works that feature erasure.

So, an alternative form of the same project ---Granary's book edition:

Miwa Matreyek's glorious visions

This is a beautiful TED performance of Miwa Matreyek. I think it is really interesting how she incorporates her actual body into her digital art and the different mediums and layers she uses.
http://www.ted.com/talks/miwa_matreyek_s_glorious_visions.html

New Media.

Hey everyone, I was just browsing the web this evening and sort of thinking about New Media and Old Media and stumbled across this video. I'm sure you've heard or seen electronic waste sites like this but thought you may be interested. It's ironic; the children in the video playing on all the technological waste and being amazed by a simple polaroid.

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world

(Contains the rat experiment Keltin mentioned in class. Good stuff.)