I *heart* Fraggle Rock: but here joined by Anna Kendrick, Ben Folds Five and Rob Corddry. A great song and some great Fraggles.
Treehouse Group Notebook
The Treehouse Group is a collective of Toronto-area thinkers who facilitate the exchange of ideas by bringing together people from diverse backgrounds.
For more information, check out our homepage.
-
2012-09-21
-
2012-09-05
Come join us at the first Treehouse Talks after a long, hot summer!
-
2012-07-11
Arty-scientists and sciencey-artists, or any other blend of disciplinarians, have no shortage of places to exhibit their work. Do you have a project to share? Submit your work to one of the following:
Technology, Knowledge & Society // 13-14 Jan 2013 // Vancouver, BC // Submissions due 12 June 2012 // “This conference will address the complex and subtle relationships between technology, knowledge and society”
Vital Signs Internatinal Art-Science Competition Exhibition // 1 Sept 2012 - 3 Feb 2013 // New York, NY // Submissions due 17 June 2012 // “We seek original art inspired by our biological world with a special interest in what lies beneath its surface, and/or reflects upon scientific research questions, processes, ethics, and the stunning discoveries being made today”
VIDA 14.0 // Submissions due 30 July 2012 // First prize€18,000 // “We bring together inter-disciplinary projects that respond to new development in Artificial Life.”
Or, visit one of these upcoming events:
Art and Science: Knowledge, Creation and Discover // 28-29 June 2012 // London, UK // “Investigation of the interaction between art and science throughout artistic practice, theory and history.”
Nicograph International Art-Science Conference // 2-3 July 2012 // Bali, Indonesia // “Topics of the conference include computer graphics, multimedia, virtual reality, design, movie production, and more.”
Molecular Cuisine: The Politics of Taste // 19-21 Oct 2012 // New York, NY // Call for submissions closed // “Investigating the importance of taste from the perspectives of the culinary arts, sociology, art history and theory, anthropology, as well as the cognitive, material and biological sciences”
-
→
In front of his class, a teacher talks to himself on YouTube to explain the concept of complex numbers having a real part and an imaginary part. Inspired by Jeremiah McDonald talking to his 12-yr old self?
-
2012-07-10
Egyptian graffiti artists arranged a No Walls protests on March 9, 2012, where they painted the walls away into stunning murals to commemorate the dead and protest the obstacles built by painting eye-deceiving, virtual continuations to the blocked streets.
-
2012-06-05
-
→
Environmentalists who spend their time trying to figure out why they are morally, intellectually or scientifically superior to their opponents are, themselves, using climate change as a tribal marker of identity. Such people are likely—just like their opponents—to reject science that doesn’t fit their received opinions.
— Why Smart People Deny Climate Change
-
2012-05-24
-
2012-05-16
The Slime Mould Collective. The name is quirky and interesting, just like the site. Slime mould artists and scientists celebrate this amazingly intelligent microorganism through pictures and stories online. To see slime moulds in Toronto, visit the Physarum Experiments workshop at the Subtle Technologies festival.
-
2012-05-15
Call for papers: Food Studies
Food Studies: An Interdisciplinary Conference is recruiting submissions. The conference will explore almost any topic related to food, like diversion of food to biofuel production, food marketing to children, and gendered home cooking patterns. The only thing they’re missing is a presentation about eating insects.
