Sample Collection!
Submitted by Jenifer Wightman on Monday, 08/22/2022 11:41am
My favorite part of making the 'mud paintings' is the mud collection. My eyes change their focus and I see differently.
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That Scat is Too Fat (or everything calls everything home)
Submitted by Jenifer Wightman on Monday, 08/22/2022 10:29am
On my first walk of the Djerassi grounds, I saw scat, tons of scat! And of course, I thought, THAT will go into the mud painting I make here.
The Mindful Mona Lisa: Poetry and the Sustainable Imagination
Submitted by Max Herman on Friday, 08/05/2022 11:56am
Eternal symphony resounding where the sky, mountain, and ocean meet
Submitted by HaeinKang on Tuesday, 08/02/2022 2:37amListening to Infrasound
Submitted by Brian House on Monday, 08/01/2022 1:19pmMacrophones is one of those art+science projects that starts with a hypothesis and then requires an awful lot of labor getting the whole thing together in order to see if it adds up to anything. On some level, the thought experiment is enough for me—if we could hear low frequency sounds from around the world, would we more directly feel our connection to and through the atmosphere?
RECOGNITION OF LEONARDO’S OUTSTANDING PEER REVIEWERS
Submitted by Nick Cronbach on Friday, 07/29/2022 1:37pmAs a result of more than 50 years of publishing work on the cutting edge, Leonardo has become the leading international peer-reviewed journal on the use of contemporary science and technology in the arts and music and, increasingly, the application and influence of the arts, design and humanities on science and technology.
Learning is not always glamorous insight!
Submitted by Jenifer Wightman on Friday, 07/29/2022 8:38am
To be honest, I never intended to do anything with clay before this residency.
Building a Macrophone
Submitted by Brian House on Thursday, 07/28/2022 1:24pmWhile I'm here at Djerassi, I'm working on my Macrophones project — essentially huge microphones that pick sound far below our range of hearing. I've pieced together the design from the literature on volcano sound and nuclear warhead test detection.
Arriving at Djerassi
Submitted by Brian House on Thursday, 07/21/2022 10:45amEverything is light and air here, we look down on the clouds over the ocean, they stretch out to cover us in mist each night and then recede again each day. Innumerable hawks hunt gophers in the grass, and I already had a bobcat encounter on the trail.
The Mindful Mona Lisa: Sustainability and Conflict
Submitted by Max Herman on Wednesday, 07/06/2022 2:15pm