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.
A convergence of science and song, the mission of Symphony of Science is "designed to deliver scientific knowledge and philosophy in musical form." Check out these two recent works, featuring contributions from several individuals that inspire the Foundation, and have rocked us at our desks and laboratories. All aboard the spaceship of the imagination!
Symphony of Science - "We Are All Connected" (ft. Sagan, Feynman, deGrasse Tyson & Bill Nye)
Carl Sagan - "A Glorious Dawn" (ft. Stephen Hawking) (Cosmos Remixed)
Did you know that every IF t-shirt contains a secret hidden message from Carl Sagan?
One of our beloved local Swiss artists Felice Varini has been creating intriguing works that challange perception since the '70s. In perhaps his most ambitious work so far, "Cercle et suite d’éclats," Varini uses the whole town of Vercorin as his canvas. As art critic Joël Koskas says, "A work of Varini is an anti-Mona Lisa."
The Fibonacci sequence is a set of numbers that is intimately connected to the Golden ratio, a reoccurring pattern which appears to be a divine code for unlocking the secret proportions of the universe.
The Phiculator is a simple tool which, when given any number, will calculate the corresponding number according to the golden ratio. Useful for anyone wanting to create using divine proportions!
Salvador Dalí exits a Paris Metro station led by his trusty giant anteater in 1969. His obsession for anteaters supposedly came about as a reaction to the tyrannical André Breton, who was known as "le tamanoir" ("the anteater"). Oddly enough, when I showed this picture to the Director he said, "It was a fun day." At first, I didn't quite understand, but then upon closer inspection I realised that the Director is, in fact, standing in the far right of the photo gazing down at the anteater. He lamented that Dalí had the photographer reshoot the picture what seemed like "countless" times until he and the anteater were perfectly composed. The Director later added with a smile, "The only difference between Dalí and a crazyman is that Dalí had better press photos."
Twenty-nine years ago, we carried out a feasibility study on an experimental wave power technology. It turned out to be so expensive that it wasn't competitive with other power sources at the time. Sadly, the project was shelved. To this day, however, the epic roar of that wave crashing still echoes with joyous passion in my mind.
Perhaps you’ve heard about the problems that CERN encountered in getting the Large Hadron Collider to work. We were astounded to find that physicists Holger Bech Nielsen and Masao Ninomiya have published papers on the possibility that the Higgs boson, which CERN has been trying to produce, might be "so abhorrent to nature" that its creation would ripple backward through time and stop the collider before the particle could be created, like a time traveler who goes back in time to kill his grandfather. Is science fiction becoming science fact? More here.
Posted By: Neville Bennette 10.24.09 Via: NY Times
In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatles fanatic named Jerry Levitan snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, and convinced John to do an interview about peace. Thirty-eight years later, Jerry has produced a film about it.
Chris Jordan is known for his densely complex portraits of mass culture, which give context to our consumption at a staggering scale. His Running the Numbers exhibition is currently touring the US.
Light Bulbs, 2008
Depicts 320,000 light bulbs, equal to the number of kilowatt hours of electricity wasted in the United States every minute from inefficient residential electricity usage (inefficient wiring, computers in sleep mode, etc.).
Visionary French architect Jacques Rougerie makes our hearts go weak in the presence of beauty with his last project, Le Musée D'Archeologie Sous-Marine D'Alexandrie, located in Egypt. Rougerie's website contains a lovely description of the sunken city: "From the lagoon, three celestial harps rise up. An underwater tunnel leads to a land stela where are exibited the famous and monumental statues saved from waters". A refreshing addition to the otherwise all-sandy Egyptian Monuments.
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