How can art be created from rubbish? Several explanations are provided in Yao-Kun Lee’s Master’s Thesis (2010) for the National Pingtung University of Education, Taiwan : “The seal of secondary rubbish, The Art of junk” “This is a study on how to create arts by using of discarded materials. The researcher cares about the problems […]
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Pencil drawings as theremin components
“Imagine you could draw musical instruments on normal paper with any pencil (cheap circuit thumb-tacked on) and then play them with your finger,” say Jay Silver and Eric Rosenbaum at the MIT Media Lab. Drawdio (“draw audio”) is a cheap tool that lets you “play” any pencil drawing (no matter where you’ve drawn it) as […]
Avian art appreciation advances
Professor Shigeru Watanabe and colleagues at Keio University, Japan, were the joint winners of the 1995 Ig Nobel psychology prize for their success in training pigeons to discriminate between the paintings of Picasso and those of Monet. Now professor Watanabe, presently Project Leader for Keio University’s Centre for Advanced Research on Logic and Sensibility has […]
Neurosurgeon/poet slices up Dali
Dr. Michael Salcman [click on the image here to see him read his poem “Envy”], a neurosurgeon and published poet (his work has been reviewed in the journal Rattle and in Wikipedia) in Baltimore, Maryland, performed surgery on artist Salvador Dali, at least in print: “Raphaelesque Head Exploding, Salvador Dali,” Michael Salcman, Neurosurgery, Volume 38(1), […]