A tesseract, also called 8-cell or octachoron, is the four-dimensional analog of a (three-dimensional) cube where motion along the fourth dimension is often a representation for bounded transformations of the cube through time.

"Subdivision is the recursive process of dividing a shape into siblings and then dividing those sibling shapes further and so on. Micheal Hansmeyer uses this procedure to create exquisite 2d and 3d crystalline visualisations using Processing." Learn & see more at Data is Nature

Marianne Schnall: You’re also a well known advocate for space migration. What ideas do you have for a future evolution where families migrate in space?

Timothy Leary: Well, in the 1970s there was a big civilian movement for space migration. What happened was that in 1980 Ronald Reagan took NASA over and made it very military and Star Wars.

Since that time, cyberspace is taking the place of intergalactic space. We are going to migrate from the planet, I have no doubt about that, but it’s not going to happen as soon as we had hoped. And in the meantime, the way to get ready for this is build up communities of people from different countries who share cyberspace.

It’s a very interesting comment that they call it cyberspace. In other words, this new electronic environment that you can visit, which in some ways is analogous to going out into real space out there in Jupiter and Mars – they call it cyberspace. This is a very interesting metaphor.

I’d just like to see
thinking come back
in style —

I haven’t heard a new idea in eight years. (...) You are the hottest, sexiest, most empowered generation ever. You’re in charge of your own evolution now that we’ve deciphered the DNA code. The future is going to be different. You can’t be bought off because there are just too many of you. You can make the world into anything you want. Open up the all the world’s future possibilities. —Tim Leary

The man who designed Gotham—Hugh Ferriss (1889 – 1962) was an American delineator (one who creates perspective drawings of buildings) and architect. According to Daniel Okrent, Ferriss never designed a single noteworthy building, but after his death a colleague said he 'influenced my generation of architects' more than any other man. See a collection of drawings at the Avery Library (to view .sid image files use Expressview).

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Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1 of 3 (1527-1593, Milan) created abstract portraits of people and ideas made from everyday objects. From Wikipedia: "the bizarre works of Arcimboldo especially his multiple images were rediscovered by Surrealist artists in the first part of 20th century. The paranoiac-critical method of Salvador Dalí was influenced by the Mannerist painter and in many Surrealist Dictionaries Arcimboldo is identified as a Surrealist painter before Surrealism existed."

Fantastically surrealistic paintings by Tiffany Bozic (born in ’79 Arkansas). Above: “Barrens of Suburbia," 2006, acrylic on maple panel, 59 x 40". Also see the interview at Fecal Face.

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TRANSPARANT INTELLIGENCE

Thinking Machine 4 explores the invisible, elusive nature of thought. Play chess against a transparent intelligence, its evolving thought process visible on the board before you.

The artwork is an artificial intelligence program, ready to play chess with the viewer. If the viewer confronts the program, the computer's thought process is sketched on screen as it plays. A map is created from the traces of literally thousands of possible futures as the program tries to decide its best move.

Those traces become a key to the invisible lines of force in the game as well as a window into the spirit of a thinking machine.

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(Created by Martin Wattenberg, with Marek Walczak. Check mw2mw.com)

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