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For those who might be interested, here is the Podcast in which neuropsychologist Chris Frith talks about the extent to which we model or simulate reality as part or our most basic experience. So when we enter a virtual environment, it’s simulation vs simulation.

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Those of you thinking of enrolling in Honours in 2010 are invited to a meeting on September 14.

HONOURS INFORMATION SESSION
The School of English, Media and Performing Arts will be running an information session for prospective Honours students on Monday 14th September at 5 pm in Room 331 Robert Webster Building.
All 2nd and 3rd students who [...]

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Video: Bruce Sterling’s Keynote - At the Dawn of the Augmented Reality Industry from Maarten Lens-FitzGerald on Vimeo.

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Via Mitchell Whitelaw, very interesting artwork involving “relief projection and multichannel sequencing”.

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Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist is one of the world’s leading video artists. This video is about the largest video installation I’ve ever seen

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Augmented reality is all the go this year! Lots of interesting applications.

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There’s a new—and better—room for the Monday 3-5 tutorial. It’s the West Wing of the Red Centre building, room M010. I’ll lead people there after the lecture as it’s a little hard to find. You go in to the West Wing, head straight toward the stairs, then up one level, then turn towards the narrow [...]

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For those of you who like reading good, higher level material—here’s a beautiful article (you will need library access online) on Étienne-Jules Marey, one of the pioneers of the study of movement(and the imperceptible) through photography. The full reference is:
Manning, Erin (2008) ‘Grace Taking Form: Marey’s Movement Machines’, Parallax, 14:1, 82 — 91

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For our initial discussion of traditional aesthetics and art, here’s a good video in which painter Peter Doig talks about his art and his process. YouTube will have lots of good things like this of course! Following this are some videos of some work by Rebecca Horn.

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