Sources: art

Entertaining and informative lecture on math and geometry using paper to demonstrate ideas.

Short history of the Vilnius Jazz Trio and their place in the history of both modern jazz and the last decades of the Soviet Union.

A good read but interesting mainly for a lot of time spent covering the problems encountered by Carrère, and others, in casting characters based on real people close to the author. The claims generally rest on complaints by those represented that they are not represented, in some sense, truly, and that the author, therefore, has transgressed on the subject’s autonomy in a morally significant way. Carrère himself seems to agree with this claim and likens himself to the torturer. I find the whole thing very odd but it is an interesting starting point for thinking about representation, interpretation, identity, and reality; though perhaps not moral claims…

Reflections on finding the essence of art in the removal of what is familiar, or, perhaps, the suppression of context, or something like that. The suggestion is that the artist, rather than suppressing detail in order to create a model that emphasizes a subject, suppresses markers that might provide a context within reality, thereby opening the space for interpretation and imagination — allowing the mind to do more work than the model. Pardoxically, the conclusion is that the artist (Fan Ho, in this case) “is capable of showing more than is really there.” Featuring senryu and photographs by Fan Ho. Short and beautiful.

What is it? Is it usefull? I don’t know but it is cool and worth playing with…