Aleksandar Cetkovic // online research tools

Today at six o'clock, our colleague, Aleksandar Cetkovic organized a meeting to show the Planetary Colleagues how several research online tools work. He showed zotero, mendeley, diigo and delicious. Here the links to access to tools:

http://www.zotero.org/
http://www.mendeley.com/
http://www.diigo.com/
http://delicious.com/


aditional suggestions:
http://www.scribd.com
http://www.nebis.ch/index_e.html

Luis Girão showed a tool for structure presentation:
http://prezi.com/

Math is not linear on Prezi

http://prezi.com/profile/signup/edu/

CAiiA-HUB summer 2010 // mediation

PLANETARY COLLEGIUM CAiiA-HUB SUMMER 2010 COMPOSITE SESSION PLYMOUTH

1) Luis Girão
How the knowledge and the researches you presented around brain stimulation helps testing your research hypotheses? What are yours research objectives, the hypothesis and, finally, the thesis you intend to defend? Will you have an artistic practice related to your thesis? If yes, how it will be related? Will your artistic practice help in defending your thesis?

2) Kathrine Anker
What are the basic assumptions connected to the material world view that are transformed into a world view of the wave space medium, and what is the main characteristic of this wave-space medium’s world view. Can you give some examples of the way this shift transforms the relations that we take for granted, or the vocabulary we use to describe them, or the way we relate them to particular contexts?

3) Jaromil Rojo
How a hermeneutics approach on economics could help in understanding the influence of the virtualization/ digitalization of the product of labor (the virtualization of reality? Of human activities) and the experience of time and space in social networks and online game environments?

4) Tine Melzer
How will you consider the ‘contamination’ between ‘whole and elements’ when approaching your ‘contextual ordinary language’ in relation to a ‘general ordinary language’? How about to shift from order to organization, focusing on the connections and interrelations between the elements to help discussing questions of meaning in your research?

5) Ziva Ljubec
How do you think experiments in augmented reality could explore the shift from membrane as film to membrane as filter? What about the characteristics of a ‘filter’ in an augmented reality realm/context?
suggestion: Alan Turing (1952) http://www.turingarchive.org/browse.php/B/22

6) Nadia Meinhardt
In which way the intention of using the generalist concept of ‘Digital Natives’ could helping to discuss a possible change of perception in intercultural contexts, looking for marginal changes in communication?

7) Amos Bianchi
Considering the apparatus as your central problem, before going through so many concepts around complex systems’ structure, behavior and nature, what concepts do you think could be more adequate to help you in to discuss your question and in which way they could help and being connect to the concept of apparatus? There is some intention of conceptually approach ‘apparatus’ as ‘black’ or ‘white box’ in your research?

8) Ellen Sebring
What about the methodology you are using/developing to ‘read’ the images and interpret the related meaning and to construct/re-construct narratives? A structure, a way to collect, by mapping and then be able to cross the data and found connections, discovering patterns…


9) Clarissa Ribeiro : http://gogogoch.net

10) Katerina Karoussos
How do you’ll support your arguments ‘against’ the primacy of sciences’ reality? Do you think today it is quite like to start a battle against the ‘church of reason’?

11) Linus Lancaster
Being the discussion around the language of ‘matter’ central to your research, how deep do you pretend to go in ‘deconstructing’ the notion of matter/materiality; how do you intend to defend a post-material reality?

12) Claudia Cardoso-Fleck
If you come back to the initial idea of building a ‘time machine’, do you think it could be interesting to discuss questions of time and space, going deep in the most different views and theories around it, despite they are scientific or not, and use your artistic practice to construct conceptual ‘time machines’.
suggestion: http://www.slideshare.net/zicsresearch/the-mind-cupola-and-enactive-ecology-dec


13) Nasim Zamanzadeh
what is effectively the whole of media and ‘information and communication technologies’ play in your argument around environmental art in Iran? Are you intending to go, beyond Iranian context, through a discussion around the role of media in the re-presentation of environmental art in general? Are you intending to discuss the role of publicity (mass media or Internet supported) in spreading the politic’s message of the environmental artists in Iran? Suggestion: http://www.ecoarttech.net/sustainablefutures/

14) Max Kazemzadeh
MALCOLM, Norman said that “Descartes did not mean merely that I, having dwelt in a union with my body for some years, might separated from it and yet survive in a disembodied condition. He meant that I might have existed without ever having a body.” (MALCOLM , p.6) And that “Sometime the interest of readers of Descartes declines when they come to understand that his doctrine of the separateness of mind and body does not mean an actual separation. This should not be so. Philosophy is as much interested in the possible as in the actual.” (MALCOLM , p.6) This dualism was part of his method of doubting, that is his most original contribution. Locke was talking about perception and senses… How the Descartes and Locke theories could effectively help you in to discuss your thesis around the intersection between the mystical and the technical in the ‘generation’ of ‘reality’?
Suggestion: http://www.gutonobrega.co.uk/

15) Aleksandar Cetkovic
How this inside/outside spatial/dimensional(?) dialogues with your interest in the relation between architecture (in a material sense) and technology/medias? Do you thing could it be interesting to explore visions like the one of Cedric Price and the one of the Metabolists to discuss this thematic, focusing in a cybernetic/complex perspective?

Derrida...

Sigmund Freud > Martin Heidegger > Jacques Derrida...

Jacques Derrida (1930—2004)

updates / CAiiA-HUB SUMMER 2010

PLANETARY COLLEGIUM COMPOSITE SESSION PLYMOUTH
12 July 2010

Katerina Karoussos
natural operation // mental operations
science // intelligence
Intelligence: something that cannot be reduced;
ethical city;
claim of effectiveness of use medieval substances (?)
how society make systems of knowledge? Dialoguing with the universe constructed by science;


Linus Lancaster
events of post-humanities and post ontology;
inspirations from the;
why theorizing is still in the world
relationship of dependence between plants and animals (USA's humans and corn)
plant can teach us the language of soil
language of soil can teach us the language of rock that speaks the language of geological temporality;
geological and human time are not separated;
some references: Heidegger, Martin. Being and time / Derrida Jaques, Writing and Difference



Claudia Cardoso-Fleck
mixing realities;
my first idea was to build a time machine...
along the research process I changed from a focus on a product to a focus on the process;
She went to a conference and Gary Schwartz, Amit Goswami mentioned the work of Dean Radin;
Information:
- common element between technology and consciousness;
- Possibility of using communication and feedback process, cyber semiotics...
Professor Antonio Caronia mentioned Roger Penrose;


references:
Gary Schwartz. The Secret Promise: The Science of Spirit-Assited Healing.
Amit Goswami. The Self-Aware Universe.


Nasim Zamanzadeh
- mataphor and wary hidden language, is the persian culture character beneath in art-works
- Media plays an important role here to express the condition of art, language and culture…

Max Kazemzadeh
http://www.maxkazemzadeh.com/
he is interested in:
- non-reductive physicalism;
- the eimpirical, the enlightenment;
- Innatism;
- D. Quantum and perception; the EPR paradox (Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox) and quantum levels Double Slit test or Youngs experiment
projects mentioned:

References:
- Descartes
- Locke
- Chomsky

Aleksandar Cetkovic

CAiiA-HUB SUMMER 2010

PLANETARY COLLEGIUM CAiiA-HUB SUMMER 2010 COMPOSITE SESSION PLYMOUTH
11 July 2010 . Plymouth

Tine Melzer
shared vocabulary: words and words - ways to order a list.

The ordinary language she is interested in is a sort of 'contextual' one:
- when people are interacting in a coffee shop it is a specific moment, a context of social exchange, with a specific vocabulary.

references:
- Michael Foucault. The Order of Things
- Wittegestein and the philosphy called 'Investigations'
- Locke (senses)
- Gertrude Stein: a rose is a rose is a rose
- speech act theory (Searle, Grice, Austin)

Ziva Ljubec
around mediation
Change
Chance
TAO
idea of the black box as the idea of an interval (as a semi permeable membrane)

Duchamp: the difference between retinal art and non retinal art;
Cezanne: shifiting the viewpoint, mapped simultaneously multiplicity of the viewpoint

membrane and osmoses:
Duchamp;Bergson; Char Davis;

"duration diffuses through the membrane as time abstraction of duration is time as spatial extension"

idea of Internet of Black boxes (internet of things, of objects...)

how to augment the architecture of extensive reality?
the idea of a ubiquitous architecture of black boxes.
- the Duchamp Large Glass (Delay in Glass was the subtitle):
semi permeable, semi transparent
- Duchamp 3 standard stoppages (joke on meter is the subtitle)
it dissolves in the measurement of a meter

next move:
- apply this concepts to augmented reality;shift from member as film to membrane as filter;

Roy: on cybernetics, science of dynamic relationship;second order cybernetic; His entry to cybernetics was through questioning: why, box? a black box? what does it mean?


Nadia Meinhardt
- Change of perception in intercultural contexts;
- communication processes (the loss of Coincindence); marginal changes in communication
- she is exploring the concepts of Digital Natives (Marc Prenky) - a sort o big bang that produced a new type of human borned in a era of rapid dissemination of new media.

John Palfrey and Urs Gasser explain the brave new world inhabited by "digital natives"--the first generation born and raised completely wired.
http://www.borndigitalbook.com/

digitalnative.org
wir arbeiten dran

one of the research questions:
how are digital natives attached by new approaches of cultural studies like interculturally and transculturally?

notes:
Knowledge Measurement (Umstatter)



Amos Bianchi
aparatus (a complex sciences approach) twards a metanarrative model
definitions of systems and the whole-elements relations;
complex systems and organization;
autopoietic system;
the instention is to define social systems as autonomous systems;
concept of bifurcation (prigogine)
the concept of morphogenesis
catastrophe theory (the jump of the system from one state to another state)
and several other concepts concerned to complex systems and complex sciences realm as a whole;

case studies:
Six degrees of separation (Milgram)
The Oracle of Bacon

references:
maturana and varella
granovetter strong and weak ties
foucault: interested in understanding how subject and object are related...


Ellen Sebring
- historical research through the visual record
- accessing historical events throught images
- when images are shared they gain a new life
- she is trying to understand the process of work with images: what is not there? the intention is to study the visceral impact of image in our act of knowing;

Clarissa Ribeiro
at http://gogogoch.net go to 'CAiiA summer 2010' to access the presentation document;