last week in class we looked at the cognitive psychology effect called priming
here’s a definition:
Priming refers to a increased sensitivity to certain stimuli due to prior experience. Because priming it believed to occur outside of conscious awareness, it is different from memory that relies on the direct retrieval of information. Direct retrieval utilizes explicit memory, [...]
Last week Guna Nadarajan, Vice-provost for research at MICA, gave an interesting talk to the faculty and mentioned that research, especially in the US, is not something most artists and designers feel comfortable with, or even able, or qualified to do.
I found this lecture (below) by Jared Diamond on, among other things, applying science to [...]
i find each of these videos poetic, humorous, and unexpected. you’ll need to watch them carefully and all the way through.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7dKnF0coxQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WruyjJwyf0M
before she died my mother bought me a winter coat with a lot of velcro on it. it’s really warm but the velcro is a pain. i wear it anyway.
sitting on the subway reading a book a young woman sat down next to me. within a minute or so she asked me [...]
on the downtown A a large man was shuffling around. he started to sit down and began talking – which lead me to believe he had found someone he knew.
he had a clear, resonant voice that cut through the rattle and noise of the train. i went back to reading a book. [...]
my friend ev showed me this project.
Rotterdam-based photographer Ari Versluis and profiler Ellie Uyttenbroek have worked together since October 1994. Inspired by a shared interest in the striking dress codes of various social groups, they have systematically documented numerous identities over the last 14 years. Rotterdam’s heterogeneous, multicultural street scene remains a major source of [...]
while doing some research on self-experimentation (actually identity-experimentation is more accurate, i’m interested in developing some insight regarding understanding my own [and by extension one's own - we're very similar, you and i] affective relationships with environmental elements [a la Kurt Lewin's Force Field Theory], and my cognitive biases- new year’s resolution…) i found [...]