IF BLOGGERS:


Mikaela Du Pomzamparc
Graduate Academy of Finland.
Area of specialty: Thawing the frozen poetry of architecture. Light, space and the materials of utopia.
Member of Imaginary Foundation since 1978



Pierre Mâché
Baccalauréat Lausanne University
Area of specialty: Exploring the horizon of the human imagination, Assistant to the Director since 1993



Isadore Muggli
Bauhaus Drop out
Area of specialty: Stimulating the neural mechanisms of visual perception. IF Co-ordinator of optical consistency since 1976




Kamilla Rousseau
Groupe de Recherche Musicale
Area of specialty: Chaotic harmony, cultivated disorder and the atonal structure of infinite beauty. Imaginary since 1978



Neville Bennette
Professor Emeritus Saint Petersburg State University
Area of specialty: Experimentally demonstrating the elaborate logic underpinning nature's awesome machinery. At the IF since 1991.




Everett Ruskin
MA of Octameter Odes Stanford
Area of specialty: Surfing the undulating waves of novelty reflected downstream from the impending Singularity.
Welcomed into the Imaginary Foundation 1981



"Bonkers" Bainbridge
Elongated sabbatical
Area of specialty: Profound absurdity and the ever multiplying wisdom of the cosmic joke.
Estranged from the Imaginary Foundation 1974 reunited 1998



Rufus Daintree
Oxbridge expulsion committee
Area of specialty: Examining the interplay of cultural and biological evolution through the lens of the metabolic metaphor.
Enchanted by the imagination since the dawn of the Foundation.



Prof. Harold Rass
Graduate Kingston Institute of Higher Education,
Area of specialty: Applied vapor research and it's coextending cosmic implications.
Associate Imaginary Foundation 1982




Andre Garnier
L’Université Paris Descartes
Area of specialty: Anticipatory rearrangements of tomorrow via the wealth of yesterday's experience.
With Imaginary since 1979




The Director
Graduate University of Zürich
Area of specialty: Deep Pattern Structures, Conciousness and the Articulation of the Possible.
Founder of Imaginary Foundation, 1973.


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NEVEREVERLAND

This mind-bending fly-thru animation by Jonathan Zawada, with music by the Avalanches, was created for the 2007 Neverland music festival.
NEW STUDY SHOWS MEDITATION INCREASES ATTENTION SPAN

A new study by psychologists at University of California, Davis has found that Buddhist meditation can improve a person’s ability to be attentive and helps people do better at focusing for a long time on a task that requires them to distinguish small differences between things they see.


4,000 BOOKS, BY ANOUK KRUITHOF




HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARSHALL MCLUHAN


“Art at its most significant is a Distant

Early Warning System that can always

be  relied on to tell the old culture what

is beginning to happen to it.”



“Ads are the cave art of the 20th century."



“It is the framework which changes with

each new technology, and not just the

picture within the frame."




“The next medium...will transform television

into an art form, and will create the world in

the image of a global village."




“Most of our assumptions have outlived their

uselessness."

THE STATE OF THE FUTURE?

As noted in the recently published 2010 State of the Future the world is in a race between implementing ever-increasing ways to improve the human condition and the seemingly ever-increasing complexity and scale of global problems.








RAINBOW

Rainbow by Helmut Smits.



SEAWEED

Lo Fi video experiment by Tell No One

JORGE RODRIGUEZ-GERADA'S TRIBUTE TO ENRIC MIRALLES IN SAND

Cuban-born artist and culture jammer Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada's latest sand painting, a portrait of Enric Miralles.



PIN BY BENJAMIN DUCROZ

The spinning, stretching and exploding geometric shapes of  Benjamin Ducroz's "PIN" articulate 32 seconds of visual poetry on fast forward.
BLOCKHEAD'S THE MUSIC SCENE

Quite a voyage.

MAD COWS

BETWEEN THE FOLDS

From protein folding to the design of air bags, origami has applications that unites art and science. Between the Folds, a captivating PBS documentary, follows a group of theoretical scientists and fine artists who have abandoned their conventional careers to forge unlikely new lives as modern paper folders.

NEW V-NECKS

New V-Necks








INVISIBLE COMPUTER MOUSE

MIT Media Lab researchers have developed Mouseless, an invisible computer mouse that costs about $20 to build.




MARSHALL MCLUHAN'S GLOBAL VILLAGE


Marshall McLuhan's notion of the global village suggests that the globalisation of communication media has brought the whole world closer together, like a village in which everyone is interconnected.

This clip is from Peter Hirshberg's absorbing TED talk on emerging media and tech history, in which he explains why the web is so much more than "better TV."


THROUGH THE WORMHOLE: THE RIDDLE OF BLACK HOLES

Another enlightening episode of the Science Channel's Through the Wormhole, hosted by Morgan Freeman. This show explores the riddle of Black holes.

FROM DIGITAL DISTRACTION TO TECHNOLOGICAL EVOLUTION


Pattern seeker Robert Wright ruminates on Kevin Kelly's new book “What Technology Wants” and finds that we may be building one big brain.

"Could it be that, in some sense, the point of evolution — both the biological evolution that created an intelligent species and the technological evolution that a sufficiently intelligent species is bound to unleash — has been to create these social brains, and maybe even to weave them into a giant, loosely organized planetary brain?"



(Technology is) "stitching together all the minds of the living, wrapping the planet in a vibrating cloak of electronic nerves” - Kevin Kelly

IF STENCIL NOTEBOOKS

DIY style by our man Travis.


LITTLE FLUFFY MC CLOUDS

Irish film student Conor Finnegan's charming film Fluffy Mc Cloud.

THE PHOTOS OF HUNTER FREEMAN

Hunter Freeman








THE DOVECOTE STUDIO PROJECT

The perfect marriage between old and new, earthy brick and steel precision: The amazing Dovecote Studio project by Haworth Tompkins.









The Dovecote Studio inhabits the ruins and expresses the internal volume of the Victorian structure as a Cor-ten steel "lining," a monocoque welded structure that was built next to the ruin and craned in when complete.

The building is fully welded in a single piece, like the hull of a ship, to achieve weather tightness, and then fitted with a simple plywood inner lining.

THE OTHER-WORLDLY ABSTRACTIONS OF GORDON TERRY

Gordon Terry's spilled acrylic polymer paintings mix influences ranging from psychedelia, to science fiction, to modernism. Simultaneously clinical yet chaotic, the work propagates meaning by way of it's harmonious oppositions and implied confusion.










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