Ecological Homeostasis

Are We Short of Water and Food ??

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Since the vegetarian diet is the most effective solution to global warming, under Supreme Master Ching Hai's guidance, members of The Supreme Master Ching Hai International Association recently opened a chain of Loving Hut vegetarian restaurants around the world, in the United States, Japan, Indonesia, Au Lac and Formosa. These places provide affordable and high-quality vegetarian delicacies to the public, bringing a positive impact on the food and beverage industry...
Meat or vegetables? Independent online (SA)
A recent study has revealed that giving up meat could drastically reduce one's carbon footprint. A diet with meat is responsible for producing in a year (as many) greenhouse gases as driving a mid-sized car for 4,758 km, the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IOeW) said last week. But the food a vegetarian consumes in (the same period of time) is responsible for generating (gases only) as driving for 2,427km, the IOeW said in a study commissioned by independent consumer protection group Foodwatch...
Vegetarian Shoes And Bags
The term pleather ("plastic leather") is a slang term for synthetic leather made out of plastic, a portmanteau of plastic and leather, the term can be either descriptive, or derogatory, depending upon the user (the derogatory use implies use as a substitute for genuine animal hide leather to cut costs)...

From All Corners of the Galaxy

Which Stars Are You From?
  • Galactic Highway - The Wormhole

    • Wormholes are a valid consequence of Einstein's general relativity view on the universe. A wormhole, in theory, acts as a shortcut or tunnel through space and time. There are several versions on the same theme (i.e. wormholes may link different universes; they may link the two separate locations in the same universe; they may even link black and white holes together), but the physics is similar, wormholes create a link two locations in space-time, bypassing normal three dimensional travel through space. Also, it is theorized, that matter can travel through some wormholes fuelling sci-fi stories like in the film Stargate or Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

    If wormholes do exist however, it is highly unlikely that you'll find a handy key to open the mouth of a wormhole in your back yard, they are likely to be very elusive and you'll probably need some specialist equipment to travel through them (although this will be virtually impossible).

    Alexander Shatskiy, from the Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow, has an idea how these wormholes may be observed. For a start, they can be distinguished from black holes, as wormhole mouths do not have an event horizon.

    Secondly, if matter could possibly travel through wormholes, light certainly can, but the light emitted will have a characteristic angular intensity distribution. If we were viewing a wormhole's mouth, we would be witness to a circle, resembling a bubble, with intense light radiating from the inside "rim". Looking toward the center, we would notice the light sharply dim. At the center we would notice no light, but we would see right through the mouth of the wormhole and see stars (from our side of the universe) shining straight through.

    Source:http://www.universetoday.com/

  • Stream of Time

    • Plato argued that time is constant - it's life that's the illusion. Galileo shrugged over the philosophy of time and figured out how to plot it on a graph so he could get on with the important physics.

    Albert Einstein said that time is just another dimension, a fourth one to go along with the up-down, side-side, forward-back we move through every day. Our understanding of time, Einstein said, is based on its relationship to our environment.

    Weirdly, the faster you travel, the slower time moves. (Is it truely weird? Not quite!!) The most radical interpretation of his theory: Past, present, and future are merely figments of our imagination, constructs built by our brains so that everything doesn't seem to happen at once.

    Source: http://www.socialtext.net/

2008-09-10

The 3rd Digital Art Festival Taipei 2008

Venue:
Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei     
No. 39, ChangAn West Road, Taipei City

ChungShan MRT Exit 1

Opening Ceremony:  19:00 - 21:00, Friday, September 12th, 2008
Duration:  Friday, September 12th, 2008 - Sunday, November 9th, 2008
Daily Hours:  10:00 am - 18:00

TEL: (02) 2778-9268
FAX: (02) 2773-6980
EMAIL: daf@dac.tw
WEB: http://www.mocataipei.org.tw/; http://www.dac.tw/

Se Mi Sei Vicino
Sonia Cillari is an Italian media artist and architect, lives and works in Amsterdam. Her work involves the creation of sensorial and perceptual mechanisms in immersive and augmented environments. Over the last years she has been specifically interested in a field of research concerning the 'Body as Interface'.

With Se Mi Sei Vicino she received the Excellence Prize at Japan Media Arts Festival and the Honorable Mentions at Prix Ars Electronica: Interactive Art category and VIDA 9.0: Art & Artificial Life International competition. She has been one of the expert jury for the Prix Ars Electronica 2008: Interactive Art category.

The interactive performance Se Mi Sei Vicino (If you are close to me) is a practical research into the possibility of using the 'Body as Interface'.

The main point of departure was the idea to measure human encounters, with the participants realizing that the boundaries of the self extend beyond their skins.

A core element of the work is a sensor floor on which a performer is standing, functioning as a human antenna; when coming close to or being touched by members of the audience, the body movements are registered as electromagnetic activity. Surrounding the floor are large projections showing real-time algorithmic organisms connected to audio compositions, which change form according to fluctuations in the electromagnetic field.

The relative distance between the bodies determines what is to be seen and heard. This work has to be considered in relation with the tradition of performance and installation art, which problematizes the distinction between active performers and passive spectators.

In fact the audiences needs to participate with the whole body. Moving, approaching and touching must be included. This interaction makes that the boundaries of passivity and activity are blurred. Everyone is a potential performer.
SoniColumn
Jin-Yo Mok is known as young Korean multimedia artist. He received his BFA and MFA from Hong-Ik University in Seoul, Korea and continued his studies at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program. His artwork has been featured and invited from a lot of venues over the world: Ars Electronica Festival in Austria; ISEA 2006; WIRED NextFest; 2005 in Sao Paolo, Brazil; Artport at Whitney Museum of America in New York.

SoniColumnis an interactive sound installation that can be played by a person's touch. The installation takes the form of a column-like cylinder, of a height that does not quite reach the ceiling but just high enough for one's reach. Grids of LEDs installed inside the column light themselves on by the users' touch and emit unique sounds. When a user cranks the handle, the column slowly rotates itself and plays the light patterns of the user's touch.

SoniColumn is one of artist series of works, The MusicBox Project, the reproduction of his experience with a small music box that he happened to play a long time ago. The lucid sounds coming from a simple play mechanism stirred him up with his old memory echoed with them. He is pleasantly and cautiously reproducing this happy experience with a small toy which was not sublime nor mysterious, but simple and easy.

DriftNet ver.-1
Norimichi Hirakawa is a media artist of new generation, completed the master course of Tama Art University. His work Global Bearing won the excellent award in 8th Japan Media Art Festival, and has exhibited the works in Yamaguchi Art center of Arts and Media, Open Space 2007 at NTT Inter Communication Center (ICC) and transmediale.08 in Germany. He had won the award of distinction in Interactive Art category of Ars Electronica 2008.

DriftNet ver.-1 shows us a new method to recognize our digital world what we get along with. The world wide internet network is just like some kind of ocean, or media to Japanese. When we look around the end of ocean beach, it is like an emptiness space in searching engine site. It unfolds the anticipative energy of the ultimate searching.

We are never free on the net to choose the links and explore. What we can do is stare at the disappearance and splash of waves, like we are surfing in the internet world. The work of DriftNet ver. -1 proposes another point of view to our interactive network.
 
ALAVs 2.0 
Jed Berk Born in New York, lives in Los Angeles, CA. He received a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from Art Center College of Design.

He has shown in the US and internationally in institutions such as Orange County Museum of Art in California; Museum of Modern Art in Austria; Brandts, Odense in Denmark; Espaço Cultural Oi Futuro in Brazil; Art Center Nabi in Korea.

ALAVs 2.0 (Autonomous Light Air Vessels) are networked objects that communicate the concept of connectivity among people, objects, and the environment. Through the use of mobile technologies, people can influence the behavior of the ALAVs by starting conversations and building closer relationships with them.
 
ALAV 2.0 reflects upon the current state of connectivity in our everyday lives. The potential of ALAVs 2.0 lies in its ability to captivate a wide audience and communicate the idea of people cohabiting a shared space with networked objects.
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