Presented at ISEA 2010, Synchronous Objects visualizes dance movements and presents a scored notation for «One Flat Thing, reproduced» by William Forsythe.
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Comment prouver la culpabilité d’un ancien officier nazi ?
Plus le temps passe, plus c’est difficile.
Please watch «Music Box».
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Hamilton’s rule
Hamilton’s rule states that r > c/b, where r is the relatedness, c the costs and b the benefits.
It shows, in any society, to what extent living organisms are naturally willing to make exceptions and sacrifices in order to help others.
Relatedness can be purely genetic (percentage of shared genes), for the survival of the group or the species, or have something to do with intellectual kinship – what Goethe called “Les Affinités Electives” – in more complex individuals.
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Ni Dieu ni Maître
A recent conference by USC University Professor Manuel Castells on new communication technologies and the sociology of networks, in Paris, available here.
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Fondation romande du cinéma
La toute nouvelle Fondation romande du cinéma, fruit de plus de 2 ans de travail, devrait ouvrir prochainement. Elle va faciliter le travail de recherche de fonds des cinéastes en Suisse romande, en proposant un guichet unifié pour le cinéma francophone d’Helvétie.
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Succès politiques
Statuts d’intermittent(e)s du spectacle, Diversité de l’offre de films en salles de cinéma d’art et d’essai, Mobilité douce et Réduction du nucléaire…
Voici quelques combats qui ont été menés avec succès durant les derniers 12 mois en Suisse…
¡ El pueblo, unido, jamás será vencido !
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House of Electronic Arts Basel
Switzerland finally has its «House of Electronic Arts» or «Haus für elektronische Künste», in Basel, which already hosts the Shift festival every year. It opened officially on May 27th 2011.
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Collège de Pataphysique
Le Collège de Pataphysique n’est pas mort. Bien au contraire.
Soit, il avait été fermé 25 ans, entre 1975 et 2000.
Vive la plus vaste et la plus profonde des sciences !
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Human Rights are not just theory
Stéphane Hessel was born in Berlin, but fought as a resistant in France during the second world war. His mother inspired a character in the movie «Jules et Jim». In his recent pamphlet, «Indignez-vous !», he is giving us good reasons to fight against the system.
He contributed to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The UN body that enforces the respect of these rights is the OHCHR, based in Geneva.
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Alvaro talks at UPF
Alvaro Cassinelli, Uruguayan citizen, like me, who studied in Paris and now is a professor in Tokyo in the Ishikawa-Oku lab, is giving a talk at UPF. I met Alvaro a few years ago at Siggraph and it was «love at first sight». Did I introduce Carson to Alvaro ? Or did I happen to be there when they met for the first time ? Anyways it happened at Siggraph.