Juliano Mer-Khamis was murdered on April 4th. He had received an award from Visions du Réel in 2004. He was organizing acting workshops for children in the West Bank.
Meanwhile, the European Union opens up its market to Palestinian exports, to ease the situation of Palestinian farmers and support their economy (preferential tariffs compared to Israeli products).
I was always taught that the architecture of the modern computer had been invented by the British Alan Turing, and the (Hungarian-)American John von Neumann. Now I am ready to learn about Konrad Zuse, the misunderstood German engineer, who was a competitor of Turing, and came up with the series of Z computers. Zuse took refuge in Switzerland during World War II, and managed to complete his Z4 in Zürich, at the ETH.
This book can be useful to guys who want to decode better how women express sexual innuendos, consciously or not, to learn how to read them better and try not to misinterpret them. I try to remain courteous and romantic, according to the principles of chivalry, and when I fall in love, I go back to the «Fragments du Discours Amoureux» by Roland Barthes, but I am not sure it has been translated, and might not «work» well with women who are not of a European culture… In terms of films, my first choice would go to Eric Rohmer.
The Charlie Rose Brain Series explores one of sciences final frontiers, the study of the human brain.
Judaica Europeana is an initiative of the EU, to identify and document Jewish presence and heritage in European culture.
Eyeo is a new 3-day festival celebrating creative coding in Minneapolis, in June.
Ricky Leacock passed away on Wednesday in Paris. This master of the documentary artform was finishing a multimedia autobiography, which is due to appear this year. I had the immense chance to know him a little while at Media Lab Europe and to benefit from his advices. May he rest in peace.
Robotics summit (conference, workshops, expo) in Lyon this week. I discovered NAO, the humanoid robot by Aldebaran, and Urbi, the Robotics OS developed by Gostai.
RAN (Réseaux Arts Numériques) is the French Digital Arts Network.
David Lynch continues his Interview Project, this time in Germany.