Djerassi Day 1 - Gratitude
Submitted by Eathan Janney on Saturday, 07/11/2015 11:01pm
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Let´s say dialogitivity?
Submitted by Guillermo Muñoz on Friday, 07/10/2015 1:26am
If a tree falls in a forest ...
Submitted by Luca Forcucci on Wednesday, 07/08/2015 10:49pm
[The Aleph) contains in its inarticulable shape all the relations with the universe and it is, ultimately, the universe itself. - J.L. Borges
Is Interdisciplinary Better?
Submitted by Eathan Janney on Wednesday, 07/08/2015 10:48amLast night a conversation emerged among a group of Djerassi residents about our feelings on cross-disciplinary interactions—especially between the arts and sciences. Each of us was chosen to be here due to our interdisciplinary background so it is not a surprise that we advocate interaction. Furthermore, there was general dissatisfaction with the current level of interaction we see in the fields in which we participate.
writing the diagnosis
Submitted by Caroline Wellbery on Tuesday, 07/07/2015 5:30pmWhat is writing the story of one’s life if not a diagnostic exercise? We look at patterns, discard what’s irrelevant, and go through the old charts looking for early hints of trouble we’d once overlooked. The best diagnosticians see the whole picture, and within that picture discern connections that others have missed.
Not art
Submitted by Allison Cobb on Tuesday, 07/07/2015 12:48pm
Ecoutes Imaginaires (Imaginary Listening)
Submitted by Luca Forcucci on Monday, 07/06/2015 10:47pm
Art and science are inextricably connected. Changing views of the manner in which nature operates bring about corresponding changes in art . . .
Quantum Dots Music
Submitted by Eathan Janney on Monday, 07/06/2015 8:11amOn Saturday I went on a morning run with fellow Djerassi resident and physicist Guillermo Munoz. As a result of a conversation about our respective fields of interest we decided to make a collaborative piece using music to explore the topic of quantum dots. I suggested that I would improvise some music which might sound like quantum dots and then ask him how to adapt it to better fit his own understanding. The idea was that the process of collaborative composition could be a tool for learning about this topic from him.
Nature. The beginning of everything.
Submitted by Guillermo Muñoz on Sunday, 07/05/2015 12:36pm
"First artist was mother nature", Tom Shean, on Looking for Stones Adventure.Settling In
Submitted by Tami Spector on Saturday, 07/04/2015 7:09amEarly morning, 5:30am, cup of strong PG Tips in hand I step outside Middlebrook D and snap a picture of the landscape, writ-large, with my i-phone. The moon full, or almost full, up above the marine layer covering the pacific, pushing against the green-gold hills. But enough of that -- I start reading an interview between the nature artist Alfio Bonanno and John Grande (JG) for my project on the natural and synthetic in chemistry, underlining and jotting marginalia as I read: traces in the landscape, artifice, nostalgia, estrangement.