- Changing the Picture The report below was written in response to Changing the Picture – the conference on storytelling and technology that took place in Berlin’s Babelsberg studios in November 2016. … Everyone lives in the stories they’re telling themselves. Many of those stories are imagined and told by somebody else and that’s where the one who speaks can have […]
- Crimean Surfers While most surfers ride the waves with their bodies, Crimean surfers ride the waves with their нутро or “gut chakra”. This changes everything, including the surfer and the concept of surfing itself, but as everything that is simple it also demands more explanation. Crimea is a beautiful desolate peninsula located at the Black Sea. It […]
- Chaos and Circadian Rhythms In this world, there are several facts that are scientifically confirmed. The state of cognitive rest is characterized by chaotic variability. Chaotic variability has a pattern of pink noise. Pink noise: oscillation amplitudes negatively correlate with their frequencies. The smaller the amplitude, the higher the frequency. The higher the amplitude, the lower the frequency. Everyday things happen more often than […]
- In Search for the Local “We shall argue that the task of localization needs to be understood as an oblique procedure that operates by means of certain ‘perspective operators’ and ‘epistemic mediators’. These perspective operators or navigational tools are able to interweave depth and surface, the generic and the vague (particular) and diagonally connect the diachronic to the synchronic (telescopic […]
- Friction and Evolution One can say that beauty is almost always an effect of limitation. … A maple tree leaf looks the way it does because it had to fold itself in order to fit inside the bud. // genetic code meets the environment Human brain is the same. So is cauliflower. Its shape is the result of […]
- Surfing In this world, there is an activity that is called Surfing. The essence of this activity, as we could decipher from numerous observations and infiltrations, is about finding the right moment across multiple dynamics that are in relation to one another.
- Lotus Flower Polysingularity of movement manifests itself through slight deviations that nevertheless gravitate towards a temporary attractor state. This state would not exist if it was not for the deviations that define the essence of their polysingularity by refusing to leave from each other too far. Yet, every movement is a promise of a new state of […]