“What underlies being conscious specifically, as opposed to just being awake? We know it’s not just the number of neurons involved. The cerebellum (the so-called ‘little brain’ hanging off the back of the cortex) has about four times as many neurons as the rest of the brain, but seems barely involved in maintaining conscious level. It’s not even the overall level of neural activity – your brain is almost as active during dreamless sleep as it is during conscious wakefulness. Rather, consciousness seems to depend on how different parts of the brain speak to each other, in specific ways.”
Tag: 11.02.16
Artists Light Up Empty Homes To Draw Attention To Abandonment Issues
“Breathing Lights” is a $1.2 million art project created by Frelin and architect Barbara Nelson in the browned-out, former manufacturing hub of Albany, Troy and Schenectady, N.Y. Using LED strips, portable batteries and programmed Arduino boards, they have built light panels and had them installed inside window frames. They’re looking to draw attention, through art, to abandoned spots once called homes.
Sendak Estate V. Rosenbach Museum Verdict Isn’t So Simple
The judge’s decision in the case mostly favored Sendak’s executors, but not entirely – and there’s more about the museum-library in the author’s will than we’ve seen in earlier reports. Peter Dobrin digs into the details.
Wall Street Journal To Cut Arts Coverage
Editor in chief Gerard Baker announced the changes to staff in a memo Wednesday. As a result, the paper will feature fewer pages with less space dedicated to coverage of arts, culture and New York news.
Top Posts From AJBlogs 11.02.16
Instead of publicity
There are new things you have to do now to publicize your work. This is something that most publicists, I fear, may not understand. But one of my former Juilliard students provides a good example of … read more
AJBlog: Sandow Published 2016-11-02
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Study: Male Creativity Is Different From Female Creativity. Here’s How
The results suggest men are more likely to produce radical breakthroughs, but women are more likely to be highly creative in a different but equally important realm. As one writer puts it, “adaptive creativity is incremental in nature and tends to work within existing structures or processes. Adaptive creativity is focused on process improvement or unique strategies to carry out a routine objective.”
Historians As Policy Advisors? Here’s Why That Isn’t A Good Idea
“History reveals the enormous variety and variability of human institutions and behaviour, setting clear limits on the validity and plausibility of any universalising generalisations. The problem for any would-be applied historian lies in converting this necessary corrective of over-confident social-scientific assertions or politicians’ simplistic assumptions – the historian’s reflex ‘actually, it’s rather more complicated than that’ – into anything resembling the sort of practical policy advice that politicians or civil servants will ever take seriously.”
Death Of Vine’s Six-Second Videos Is The Death Of An Art Form
“Like flash fiction before it, best represented by the apocryphal Ernest Hemingway six-word story, “For sale: baby shoes, never worn,” the original six-second limitations on the app’s videos forced users to craft concise narratives that capture a slice of life or create a bit of movie magic in a mere moment. It became flash film.”
Can Matthew Bourne Pull Off ‘The Red Shoes’?
“With such works as his funny and homoerotic Swan Lake, he’s attracted a whole new audience to contemporary dance and made himself a household name. But despite his past successes, Bourne knows that he’s taken on a monumental challenge with his … adaptation of the Powell and Pressburger film.”
Maurice Sendak’s Estate Wins Lawsuit Against Small Museum
Over the years, Sendak had deposited thousands of books and drawings at the Rosenbach Museum and Library in Philadelphia. But Sendak never formally gave them to the Rosenbach, and after he died in 2012, his executors decided they wanted most of that collection back. So the Rosenbach sued the estate. Now the judge’s ruling has arrived.