“Mapuguaquén”: Acoustic sculpture paired with wireless technology amplifies the earth. http://inhabitat.com/handmade-wireless-clay-speakers-amplify-the-sound-of-the-earth/mapu-guaquen-the-sound-of-the-earth-speakers-2/?extend=1
“From Cabinet to Internet”
From Cabinet to Internet: Digitising Natural History and Medical Manuscripts. This looks like a fantastic conference. I hope they post the proceedings.
Starry Messengers
“Starry Messengers: Signs and Science from the Skies” Monday, January 12, 2015 to Saturday, May 2, 2015 Location: Edison and Newman Room, Houghton Library, Harvard University
Animal and Natural Worlds
Animal and Natural Worlds: Medieval and Early Modern Interdisciplinary Ecologies This sounds like a very interesting, interdisciplinary event at Durham College this summer.
Elizabeth Agee Manuscript Prize
“Animal, Vegetable, Digital” has won the Elizabeth Agee Manuscript Prize from the University of Alabama Press! “Awarded annually to the manuscript chosen as representing outstanding scholarship in the field of American literary studies, the Elizabeth Agee Prize was established in honor of a longtime Birmingham bookseller who described herself as “a reader and lover of […]
Digital Animals
The Digital Animals conference at NYU looks like a great event.
Singing Trees
This semester I’m teaching a class on Literature and the Environment, and when I was reading John Muir’s descriptions of the pines in “A Wind-Storm in the Forests,” I noted the following passage: “The waving of a forest of the giant Sequoias is indescribably impressive and sublime, but the pines seem to me the best […]
Milo Lamps
“Milo.” Lightovo. Lightovo, n.d. Web. 7 Nov. 2014. http://lightovo.com/product/milo/ At Lightovo, Polish designers developed a series of lamps that embody symbiotic relationships. Called the “Milo,” each glass-shaded lamp acts as a miniature greenhouse for a potted plant. The inner LED light bulb emits a color temperature of 4000 K to 6000 K, which not only replicates natural sunlight but also proves […]
Energy Addicts
“Energy Addicts.” Naomi Kizhner Design. Naomi Kizhner, n.d. Web. 1 Nov. 2014. http://www.naomikizhner.com/#!final-project–energy-addicts/c7q0 Designed by Naomi Kizhner, “Energy Addicts” is a project that explores a future struggling in the face of depleted resources. Her invented devices imagine a solution to this. Constructed out of gold with sharp needle points, the biopolymer pieces seek blood as a fuel […]
Jerry Uelsmann’s Dreamscapes
Bisceglio, Paul. “Dreamscapes.” Smithsonian May 2013:12. Print. Photographer Jerry Uelsmann beat Photoshop to the punchline. Since the 1960s, he’s been manually layering his negatives to achieve an effect very similar to digital manipulation. The seamlessly blended images often involve nature at the focus. Trees in particular are a repeating subject, as seen above in 1969’s “Untitled.” His […]