The first ad from 1935 that used Du Pont's famous slogan "Better Things for Better Living ... Through Chemistry". Introduced as part of a campaign to dissociate the brand from WWI chemical weapons production, by showing chemistry as a force for good. And of course the phrase was later hacked to refer to LSD.
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A bit of oven development in progress...
This Thursday the 16th of April will be the opening of a great exhibition at Various Artists in New York which includes analog electronic image explorations by Greg Zifcak, Sara Hornbacher, Blinn & Lambert, Jen Kutler, Jonas Bers , Phil Baljeu, Anton Rickets and myself.
It will run until the 17th of May and it will feature the first gallery-type showing of my "Mechanisms Common to Disparate Phenomena; #59".
#MechanismsCommonToDisparatePhenomena #DialoguesWithMachines #SystemsThatMatter
Drilling for rock salt in Germany, early 19th century.
A super interesting book looking at authors such as Kant and Goethe as precursors of thinking about the inorganic, which is a great and refreshingly oblique angle on the kind of things I was reading two years ago ("Kant's Organicism" by Jennifer Mensch for instance), and completely in line with the current (and still failing) crystal experiments.
(Many thanks @ueb_team161 for that great pointer !)
#WolfgangHottner #ImmanuelKant #Goethe #79 #SystemsThatMatter
From 2008 but just in: a cultural history of salt by Jakob Vogel. Any pointers to other cultural histories of substances are very welcome.
Testing ways to mount heater wire that will hopefully not result in tripping the fuses.
Today I encountered this 1958 edition of Korzybski's 1933 proto-cybernetic magniloquent magnum opus: I've come across references to his work often enough to not hesitate too long, even though I don't think we'll become good friends.
So this book is finally out: a great study of the life of a scientific film about fluid dynamics that was made almost exactly a century ago by Ludwig Prandtl in Göttingen.
#LudwigPrandtl #MarioSchulze #SarineWaltenspül #SystemsThatMatter
Yesterday was the opening of the first ever Research Days organized at KASK&Conservatorium in Ghent, loosely structured around the topic of play. The image is bad picture of Luanda Casella's great presentation during the first panel. Today I will be trying out a lecture performance at 17h, tomorrow I will be in a panel discussion with Kate Fletcher and Lambros Malafouris, moderated by Anca Uşurelu.
#schoofofartsgent #OtherSemiconductors #79 #SystemsThatMatter
Joost Rekveld