August 11, 2008 at 9:36 am · Filed under News
This fall will mark the launch of GLIMPSE, an interdisciplinary journal of visual perception that has been brewing in the back of my mind for almost 8 years. With the help of friends and a slew of enthusiastic volunteers and interns, GLIMPSE examines the functions and processes of vision and its implications for being, knowing, and constructing our world/s. Each theme-focused journal issue features articles and essays, artists’ visual essays, interviews, and reviews from the physical sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.
Beginning last January, GLIMPSE’s team convened to slog through such foundational issues as coming up with a name for the journal, a logo and layout design, a web site, a secret wink, a patron saint (St. Lucy), selecting themes for the first 6 issues, and beginning to invite people to contribute articles, essays, reviews, visual essays, etc.
GLIMPSE has a new group of tireless interns for the summer that will be researching potential contributors and stalking them until they agree to contribute their work and ideas to our enterprise. Since I’d prefer not to stalk, harass, and extort people for content, I’d like to enlist your help in:
1) Submitting relevant works for an upcoming issue, OR
2) Encouraging others to submit their work
3) Subscribing to the journal
4) Getting the word out about GLIMPSE to your friends and colleagues
5) Suggesting relevant potential advertisers for our first issues
More details about the journal and our call for submissions are below.
Thanks for your time and ideas. Have a great summer, and watch the virtual newsstand for our first issue this fall!
Megan
Megan Hurst
editor@glimpsejournal.com
GLIMPSE: the art + science of seeing
http://www.glimpsejournal.com
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
GLIMPSE: the art + science of seeing
An interdisciplinary journal of visual perception
Upcoming deadline: June 20, 2008
GLIMPSE editors seek submissions for upcoming issues. Our intent is to bring current research and scholarship of “the visual” to a public forum consisting of academic and non-academic audiences alike. Since we strive to spark inquiry and dialogue across disciplines, it is important that our articles avoid jargon and be accessible to readers from diverse backgrounds. Stylistically, GLIMPSE is more like a magazine than an academic journal– however, in depth of content, we value conceptual precision and scholarly rigor.
SUBMISSIONS http://www.glimpsejournal.com/contribute.html
Themes for upcoming GLIMPSE issues:
Is the visual political? (Fall 2008) - Deadline June 20, 2008
China Vision (Winter 2009) - Deadline July 11, 2008
Cosmos (Spring 2009) - Deadline September 26, 2008
Revolutions in Visual Representation
Vision and Language
Iconoclasm
Visions
Vision and Ethics
Imagination
SUBMISSIONS http://www.glimpsejournal.com/contribute.html
GLIMPSE takes a uniquely lightweight and open approach to publishing. Our audience definition, review process, handling of copyright, contributor compensation, production and publication formats, and overall business model are low-overhead, technology-enabled, and pragmatically idealistic. You can read about how GLIMPSE is different from most publications at http://www.glimpsejournal.com/about.html
SUBMISSIONS http://www.glimpsejournal.com/contribute.html
GLIMPSE also has opportunities for issue- and theme-specific guest editors and graphic designers, for editorial, database and programming, design, and library science interns for summer and fall 2008. Visit http://www.glimpsejournal.com/contribute.html#staff for more information.
SUBMISSIONS http://www.glimpsejournal.com/contribute.html
UPCOMING GLIMPSE THEMES http://www.glimpsejournal.com/issues.html
ABOUT GLIMPSE http://www.glimpsejournal.com/about.html
July 21, 2008 at 8:49 am · Filed under Language, Evolution
well, of course it did. Read more.
May 9, 2008 at 8:19 pm · Filed under News
Thirsty for real conversation? Come to Café Sci and join a lively discussion at a local pub.And you get to talk with your mouth full…with free appetizers, plus drink specials!THE TOPIC: Your body is remarkably perfect. That pair of arms you have for example. One left, one right. How did they know to grow that way? It’s as if each hand knew what the other was doing.If you look hard, you can find the recipe that helped your body turn out the way it did. It’s all right there in your DNA.We’ve all heard of DNA, but it is really just a little molecule. How does the recipe in this molecule get turned into you: a living, breathing creature? The race to understand this is leading to discoveries and tools that are rapidly transforming our ability to guide life itself.Join Café Sci as Harvard Medical School researcher Cliff Tabin brings us tales from the front lines of genetics. What is the limit of our capacity to direct the shape life takes? What does it look like when one species evolves from another? Does this mean we’re finally on the verge of growing wings?THE DETAILS:Café Sci meets in Inman SquareStarts at 6:30pm, Sunday, May 18The Thirsty Scholar, www.thirstyscholarpub.com 70 Beacon Street, SomervilleFREE FOOD! DRINK SPECIALS!This Sunday’s event is produced in participation with the American Academy of Arts and Sciences: www.amacad.org. Root for the Celtics! If they go to a game 7 with Cleveland we may have to reschedule this event. Café Sci encourages open, easy-to-understand conversation. No lectures. No PowerPoint. No technical jargon.Café Sci is free and open to all (21+ at Thirsty Scholar). Bring your friends, tell your neighbors, post this message, and pass it along.Café Sci is an ongoing series.To be added to the e-mail list write to getinvolved@wgbh.org.Find other science cafes at www.sciencecafes.org.Hosted by the public television science series NOVA scienceNOW, produced by WGBH. Watch online at: www.pbs.org/nova/sciencenow
May 1, 2008 at 6:04 pm · Filed under Language, Learning, Sound, Information
“By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID, AP Science Writer
WASHINGTON - The happy babbling that entertains parents as their babies try to mimic speech turns out to have a parallel in the animal world. Baby birds babble away before mastering their adult song, researchers report in Friday’s edition of the journal Science.”
read full article
November 14, 2007 at 5:14 pm · Filed under Information
A Walk in the Park was written as a performance text to be spoken aloud between the presentation of five recorded and/or ‘live’ musical pieces. The most recent performance was presented Nov. 9th, 2007 at the Pozen Center in Boston as part of an international Art and Environment Symposium sponsored by the K2 Family Foundation. There are four sections of spoken text. Electronic music (A Common Ancestor) was presented between each of the spoken sections. Two Interludes for Speaking Voice, Violin and Piano and Haiku for Speaking Voice and Violin were performed ‘live’ at the beginning and end of the program, respectively.
The content of the text reflects aspects of culture, science, and the environment.
John Holland A Walk in the Park.pdf
October 11, 2007 at 5:38 pm · Filed under Life, Evolution
There are recent studies (this century) that tackle subjects such as love (How to Love, Helen Fisher), music (This is Your Brain on Music, Daniel Levitin), etc. from a rational, objective point of view. Rigorous analysis of these classic subjects is thought to be off limits because of their subjective nature. So after much discussion about the nature of happiness with members of Nature and Inquiry, I have decided to weigh-in on this fascinating and popular subject.
John Holland happiness.pdf
September 29, 2007 at 10:48 pm · Filed under humanism, News
“Greg Epstein, the humanist chaplain at Harvard University, hopes to build a “humanist house,” essential a church for non-believers complete with humanist weddings, funerals, baby naming ceremonies and even Sunday school. Epstein’s views are creating a bit of a stir in the atheist community, where people say that Epstein’s brand of humanism is essentially a form of religion.”
Story aired: Thursday, September 20, 2007
Listen here - http://www.here-now.org/shows/2007/09/20070920_2.asp
~nita
September 11, 2007 at 8:04 am · Filed under Learning, Information
“Edge Foundation, Inc., was established in 1988 as an outgrowth of a group known as The Reality Club. Its informal membership includes of some of the most interesting minds in the world.
The mandate of Edge Foundation is to promote inquiry into and discussion of intellectual, philosophical, artistic, and literary issues, as well as to work for the intellectual and social achievement of society.”
A continuous look at what is going on in the most current areas of science and art, including articles, interviews, books by leaders in the field. A must see!
www.edge.org
John Holland
September 9, 2007 at 8:52 pm · Filed under Experiments, Artistic Process, News
An Exhibit just opened in San Pedro that sounds interesting and right up our alley… wish i could have gone to the opening. it was curated by Victoria Bryan.
here’s the scoop - “Nature of Inquiry, Part One” The exhibit includes thirteen artists from San Pedro, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Portland and Dublin: Amerinda Alpern, Ellen Bay, Bronwen Casson, Susan Dampf, Jan Govaerts, Sabina Haque, Dar Horn, Joan Mueller, Jon Nakamura, Hilary Norcliffe, Angelica Sotiriou, Molly South, Katie Stubblefield and Sayon Syprasoeuth
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 6, 6–9 pm
The Nature of Inquiry, Part Two will be shown in June 2008.
“The project will span an eleven-month period. Nature of Inquiry, Part One, the September exhibit at The Loft Gallery, includes one piece from each artist. The artists chose the works to characterize the inquiry they will be pursuing through their art making for the next nine months. Members of the group will exhibit the results of their inquiries in Nature of Inquiry, Part Two, at The Loft Gallery for two months beginning in July, 2008.
For some artists, this process will be a continuation of a lifetime fascination with particular questions, concepts, or media; for others, the project is an opportunity to explore new materials and ideas that have been lurking in the back corners of their imaginations.”
www.the-loft.net/natureofinquiry.html
~Nita
August 23, 2007 at 3:13 pm · Filed under Space, Stars
Google Sky allows users to tour galaxies
By DAN NEPHIN, Associated Press Writer Wed Aug 22, 5:10 PM ET
PITTSBURGH - The heavens are only a few mouse clicks away with Google Inc.’s latest free tool. A new feature in Google Earth, the company’s satellite imagery-based mapping software, allows users to view the sky from their computers.
The tool provides information about various celestial bodies, from stars to planets, and includes imagery from the Hubble Space Telescope and other sources. It also allows users to take virtual tours through galaxies, including the Milky Way, from any point on Earth they choose.
http://earth.google.com/sky/index.html
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