Distant simplicity/Close complexity
“Anthropologists are widely thought of as unorthodox investigators of strange and mysterious people, willing to forgo the comforts of civilization for the romance of distant simplicity.”
Kottak 2005
An old an romantic view of who is an anthropologist. But lets play with it and flip it around a bit.
Creative research
Quote from Paul Carter’s book “Material Thinking”, what does creative research involve..
Ash cloud-inspired installation
Beautiful installation inspired by the ash cloud that Iceland’s volcano once poured over Europe, Joanie Lemercier, from AntiVJ.
“I can play with the brain and mess up visual perception”
Second audiovisual collage
Next collage up on the channel, this time the thoughts wonder through audiovisual creativity.
You know what I mean?
That other people might have other beliefs and viewpoints than our own might seem something obvious, yet as social beings we re-learn it, ponder upon, struggle with and even fight against it throughout our lives and throughout the ages. This capacity to think about others’ minds, is something we cognitively learn. Neuroscientists have located a region in the brain, just behind your right ear, where the cognitive process, dealing with the shifting, is going on. In her interesting talk “How we read each other’s minds”, Rebecca Saxe talks about the development of this ability and its implications.
First audiovisual collage of Imag[eN]motion
This research has a mind of its own and is growing new limbs and new angles – an audiovisual collage project is taking shape.
Same tune, different image
Soon after the disturbances in Madrid on the 25th of September, the Spanish television channel La Sexta rerun an episode of Salvados, a documentary series by El Terrat. First aired in April this year, the episode titled “Poli bueno, poli malo“, ‘good cop, bad cop’, talks about the image, or rather images, of the police … Read more
We have always been virtual
Anthropologists Henrietta Moore talking about our ability to imagine. And new ways of seeing always proffer new ways of thinking, and ultimately new ways of doing. So technological advancements take us forward in enhancing these skills we have for imagination and virtuality. Listen to the full lecture “Technologies of Enchantment: Magic, world and being” here.
Extendable mind
Philosopher Alva Noë pondering on the importance of the environment for the workings of the mind. I think that human beings are in a very interesting way a tool-using creature. People sometimes think “we use tools, that’s part of culture, then there’s biology…”but actually I think we are tool users by nature, we are biological … Read more
