THE ARCHIPELAGO

We are not so smart

2012-02-26T07:26:00.000-08:00

http://www.next-after-this.com/2011/12/review-you-are-not-so-smart-david.html

confirmation bias

2012-02-26T07:21:00.001-08:00

Confirmation bias (also called confirmatory bias, myside bias or verification bias) is a tendency of people to favor information that confirms their beliefs or hypotheses. People display this bias when they gather or remember information selectively, or when they interpret it in a biased way. The effect is stronger for emotionally charged issues and for deeply entrenched beliefs. For example, in reading about gun control,  people usually prefer sources that affirm their existing attitudes.  They also tend to interpret ambiguous evidence as supporting their  existing position. Biased search, interpretation and memory have been  invoked to explain attitude polarization  (when a disagreement becomes more extreme even though the different  parties are exposed to the same evidence), belief perseverance (when  beliefs persist after the evidence for them is shown to be false), the  irrational primacy effect (a greater reliance on information encountered  early in a series) and illusory correlation (when people falsely perceive an association between two events or situations).

A series of experiments in the 1960s suggested that people are biased  toward confirming their existing beliefs. Later work re-interpreted  these results as a tendency to test ideas in a one-sided way, focusing  on one possibility and ignoring alternatives. In certain situations,  this tendency can bias people's conclusions. Explanations for the  observed biases include wishful thinking  and the limited human capacity to process information. Another  explanation is that people show confirmation bias because they are  weighing up the costs of being wrong, rather than investigating in a  neutral, scientific way.

Confirmation biases contribute to overconfidence in personal beliefs and can maintain or strengthen beliefs in the face of contrary evidence. Poor decisions  due to these biases have been found in military, political, and  organizational contexts, as well as in the process of getting to know  other people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias 

CONFIRMATION BIAS AND ART

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2011/07/17/confirmation-bias-and-art/ 

aux armes et caetera

2012-02-22T18:08:00.000-08:00

raw portraits

2012-02-20T09:24:00.000-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62nelnMXW3M

soundtrack

2012-02-17T00:57:00.000-08:00

the game of life (J.Conway)

2012-02-12T20:20:00.000-08:00

http://www.math.com/students/wonders/life/life.html

"...is one of the simplest examples of what is sometimes called              "emergent complexity" or "self-organizing systems." This subject area              has captured the attention of scientists and mathematicians in diverse              fields. It is the study of how elaborate patterns and behaviors can              emerge from very simple rules..."

dark matter

2012-02-01T04:53:00.000-08:00

angles

2012-01-28T23:06:00.000-08:00

2012-01-24T08:09:00.000-08:00

http://www.archinoma.com/index.php/eng/archinoma/

2012-01-23T01:49:00.000-08:00

10. "Stop defining yourself: allow yourself every possibility that could be, and change paths as often as necessary". A.J.

michael jones mckean

2012-01-20T12:08:00.000-08:00

epics

2012-01-19T09:30:00.000-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9ApRjtwwTU

Hyper geography by joe hamilton

2012-01-16T09:03:00.000-08:00

http://vimeo.com/joehamilton/hypergeography

LA INTUICION NO ES IRRACIONAL

2012-01-14T12:41:00.000-08:00

http://www.ver-documentales.net/redes-04-la-intuicion-no-es-irracional/

digression

2012-01-13T09:04:00.000-08:00

"Digression is an essential part of creating. It’s like hiking — every path that opens up in front of you is a viable one until it’s not, and then you find another or retrace your steps. It's a way of seeing more of the mountain."

reprise!!!

2012-01-08T10:08:00.000-08:00

bill bollinger

2012-01-07T09:13:00.000-08:00

thoughts for 2012

2011-12-25T22:32:00.000-08:00

 “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” ~Confucius

 “If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.” ~ Mark Twain 

indoor maths

2011-12-20T00:19:00.000-08:00

the architect and the painter

2011-12-17T15:40:00.000-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJDkGsOnoDU

(construct-recombinant)

2011-12-14T08:30:00.000-08:00

           Construct 
n.
1
     something constructed by the mind: 
-a theoretical entity  
-a working hypothesis or concept  

2

-a product of ideology, history, or social circumstances

Recombinant

n.
1.  An organism or cell in which genetic recombination has taken place.
2.  Material produced by genetic engineering.

adj.
1.  Formed by or showing recombination.

2.  Of or relating to recombinant DNA: recombinant fragments; recombinant technology.

Gonzalo Puch

2011-12-13T10:11:00.000-08:00

tangencies

2011-12-08T23:42:00.000-08:00

2011-12-07T08:48:00.000-08:00

V.Celmins.

2011-11-29T07:18:00.001-08:00

58.

2011-11-24T06:36:00.000-08:00

2011-11-22T07:34:00.000-08:00

Richard Rorty and Conversational Philosophy

2011-11-19T11:24:00.000-08:00

According to Richard Rorty's definition, doing 'conversational philosophy' requires us "to give up the goal of getting things right, and substitute that of enlarging our repertoire of individual and cultural self-descriptions". This fits in with his pragmatist view that the point of philosophy "is not to find out what anything is 'really' like, but to help us grow up - to make us happier, freer, and more flexible".

Rorty does not  seem to want us to read too much into his use of the term  'conversational', but it strikes me that there is indeed a close  connection term between the goal of enlarging a repertoire of  descriptions and the art of conversation. Among other things, a good  conversationalist ought to be able to engage and impress a wide range of  potential interlocutors, which could be said to require a sympathetic  grasp of the wide range of life-stances these interlocutors might hold.

Following this  train of thought, we might say the conversational thinker ought to be  interdisciplinary, as it would be a poor conversationalist who only felt  comfortable talking to those working in her own discipline. In  particular she ought to have a grasp of literary as well as scientific  culture, in order to be able to converse skillfully with members of  each.

An implication  for literature and the arts - which Rorty sees as important voices in  the 'conversation of mankind' - might be that the best art is that which  attracts the interest and admiration of people with a wide range of  different intellectual positions; and that the best artists will have  the breadth of intellectual sympathy required to do this (even if this  remains at a relatively intuitive level - Shakespeare?).

Reading Rorty,  one sometimes has the feeling that his ideal 'liberal ironist' is a  little too happy, too untroubled by doubts and fears in her intellectual  life, to be a flesh and blood human being. After all, when one has  given up trying to get anything right, what is there left to worry  about, intellectually? But, again, the term 'conversational' suggests a  way of putting flesh on the bones. The would-be conversational thinker  will naturally worry whether she is really as good a conversationalist  as she takes herself to be - there is always the possibility that the  next person she meets (or the next book she reads) will say something  that blows her mind or shakes her foundations, converting her to a  radically new outlook. Indeed the next person she talks to might even  convince her to give up conversational philosophy and return to  classical epistemology.

Not that what  fundamentally worries the conversational thinker is the shame of meeting  a superior conversationalist. For the underlying worry is that one's  current outlook is not sufficiently flexible and open-minded, that it  has not been informed by a wide enough range of perspectives, and that  consequently, one is not as happy or as free as one would like to be.  Despite avoiding the anxieties associated with the traditional ideals of  truth, it is quite possible for a conversational thinker to be driven,  in his quest for an ever wider range of intellectual sympathies, by the  kind of anxious, unsatisfied desire for fulfilment most of us recognize.

http://fictivemusic.blogspot.com/2011/08/richard-rorty-and-conversational.html 

the WEST shore

2011-11-17T06:54:00.000-08:00

“The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past [. . .] Here is the last stop for all those who come from somewhere else, for all those who drifted away from the cold and the past and the old ways. Here is where they are trying to find a new life style, trying to find it in the only places they know to look: the movies and the newspapers.”–Joan Didion, Slouching Toward Bethlehem

the shore (installation view)

2011-11-08T15:11:00.000-08:00

los resonantes (studio)

2011-11-01T06:00:00.000-07:00

los resonantes

2011-10-29T07:02:00.000-07:00

2011-10-25T16:29:00.000-07:00

Ineffably kind voices spoke to me down from the trees:

2011-10-08T23:30:00.000-07:00

the micrograms and the infinite/los microgramas y el infinito

2011-10-06T01:31:00.000-07:00

the seashore and.....“l’objet du monde le plus ambigu”,

2011-10-02T09:58:00.000-07:00

think what you feel, feel what you think

2011-09-29T08:55:00.000-07:00

walking...

2011-09-25T23:30:00.000-07:00

“Questions are usually more beautiful, more significant than their resolutions, which in fact never resolve them, are never sufficient to satisfy us, whereas from a question streams a wonderful fragrance.”

"the sketches I produce now and then are shortish or longish chapters of a novel. The novel I am constantly writing is always the same one, and it might be described as a variously sliced-up or torn-apart book of myself..."

desk

2011-09-24T01:00:00.000-07:00

......

2011-09-21T15:02:00.000-07:00

/

2011-09-13T17:29:00.001-07:00

we care a lot!

2011-09-13T16:21:00.000-07:00

dreamed again with symmetries

2011-09-07T14:19:00.000-07:00

its a fact

2011-08-30T23:11:00.001-07:00

2011-08-28T22:51:00.000-07:00

"Those shoes and your phone call turn my life around"

ITS ONGOING

2011-08-24T08:29:00.000-07:00

resonances

2011-08-21T08:41:00.000-07:00

many interesting ideas together may not make

a good unity but...still many interesting ideas

.......

2011-08-21T08:17:00.000-07:00

.........

.........

Здесь е

2011-08-19T02:11:00.000-07:00

guess what?

2011-08-12T21:07:00.000-07:00

Science and...

2011-08-09T06:48:00.000-07:00

...

2011-08-04T20:29:00.000-07:00

Charlie Youle, "from the vaults of experience"

whimsical

2011-08-01T10:10:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG2KcTCTyBw

paths

2011-07-27T10:55:00.000-07:00

small talk

2011-07-22T11:59:00.000-07:00

2011-07-19T21:56:00.000-07:00

-¡El Aleph! - repetí.
-Sí, el lugar donde están, sin confundirse, todos los lugares del orbe, vistos desde todos los ángulos.

“The Aleph?” I repeated…
“Yes, the place where, without getting confused, all the places of the earth seen
from all angles.

here and there

2011-07-16T12:31:00.000-07:00

'Open Black Box' Tom Friedman

a life on the ocean...in search of...

2011-07-14T09:52:00.000-07:00

Knot

2011-07-13T14:01:00.000-07:00

and under the water line

2011-07-09T08:36:00.000-07:00

there is something inside...more questions.

2011-07-06T08:39:00.000-07:00

Simple
Raymond Carver
A break in the clouds. The blue
outline of the mountains.
Dark yellow of the fields.
Black river. What am I doing here,
lonely and filled with remorse?
I go on casually eating from the bowl
of raspberries. If I were dead,
I remind myself, I wouldn’t
be eating them. It’s not so simple.
It is that simple.

Thoughts not said, then forgotten

2011-06-30T10:04:00.000-07:00

Bas Jan Ader at Patrick Painter
http://patrickpainter.com/exhibitions .html

- mind + body

2011-06-29T19:21:00.000-07:00

As it is

2011-06-27T00:20:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0yHQAA7XW8

coup d'état!

2011-06-15T06:37:00.000-07:00

a nything is possi b le

2011-06-09T16:55:00.000-07:00

. the sea is always the key .

2011-06-07T20:31:00.000-07:00

Bruno Murani, 1951-91

who's on the other side of the looking glass?

2011-05-30T20:22:00.001-07:00

SHARING

2011-05-25T01:38:00.000-07:00

the intersection (denoted as ∩) of two sets A and B is the set that contains all elements of A that also belong to B (or equivalently, all elements of B that also belong to A), but no other elements.

equinoxe

2011-05-16T15:01:00.000-07:00

The stuff that dreams are made of.

2011-05-13T23:40:00.000-07:00

characters: THE PUNCHINELLO

2011-05-09T22:12:00.000-07:00

"rattlesnake" and "parade" D. Hockney.

the swimmer

2011-05-07T09:47:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIegoQAayFs

decision making

2011-04-28T10:51:00.000-07:00

changing the logic

2011-04-15T13:40:00.000-07:00

Live With / Think About

2011-04-10T08:56:00.000-07:00

Art Tape: Live With / Think About MICHAEL BELL SMITH

http://vimeo.com/21826002

VERNACULAR L.A.

2011-04-04T14:39:00.000-07:00

I wonder how known William Leavitt may be out of California. His show at MOCA is one of the most inspiring shows I've ever seen. Delightful.

THEATER OBJECTS

http://www.moca.org/museum/exhibitiondetail.php?id=430

"beautiful" american randomness

2011-03-30T17:06:00.000-07:00

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/taryn_simon_photographs_secret_sites.html

taryn simon, the central intelligence agency, art cia original headquarters building, langley, virginia, chromogenic color print

DIAGRAMAS

2011-03-25T12:38:00.000-07:00

Sobre las "pinturas" y sus "lugares"

Consideraciones, (filosoficas) "ahora que no miran…" al hilo del interesante texto de la exposición de Prudencio Irazabal en la galeria Artnueve….

"Gran parte de la crítica y el comisariado tienen serias dificultades para tratar la pintura. Parecen haber perdido oído para la instrumentación original. Lo que podría ser un buen comienzo, ahora que no miran".

P.Irazabal.

Link:

http://artnueve.blogspot.com/2011/03/las-claves-de-la-pintura-prudencio.html

"Se nos hace que esa lucha con lo que sabemos, con lo que ya ha sido dicho, con lo que ya se ha pintado, la búsqueda de la superación de lo que ha sido fijado o establecido, es una tarea, por crítica, genuinamente filosófica".

Link:

http://laventanaindiscretacineyfilosofia.blogspot.com/2009/06/filosofia-y-pintura.html

Paul Klee, Super Chess, 1937.

Can you guess what these maps show?

2011-03-20T23:37:00.000-07:00

SAM DURANT at Blum&Poe

http://www.blumandpoe.com/exhibitionpages/durant11/pressrelease.html

Rush Hour

2011-03-16T00:52:00.000-07:00

Metropolis II

"HOME"

2011-03-13T23:31:00.000-07:00

A TRIP TO THE COUNTRY SIDE

2011-03-04T18:46:00.000-08:00

http://youngprojectsgallery.com/current-exhibitions.php
Roman Signer

SETTLER

2011-03-04T06:19:00.000-08:00

FROM LUXOR TO LUXOR, actually.

2011-02-27T10:07:00.000-08:00

From Egypt in Vegas...................to Vegas in Egypt

PACKAGING at Trayecto Galeria ARCO 2011

2011-02-22T11:43:00.000-08:00

OASIS

2011-02-22T09:42:00.000-08:00

Los Feliz Public Library, Los Angeles.

mapas que construyen espacios

2011-02-20T21:37:00.000-08:00

http://mapametromadrid.iednetwork.com/

Javier Noguerol

2011-02-18T09:40:00.000-08:00

Santiago Molina

Interesante blog the arquitectur/Really Interesting architecture blog (in spanish)

cabine fever.

2011-02-17T11:38:00.000-08:00

carlos garaicoa

2011-02-15T10:42:00.000-08:00

2011-02-10T11:42:00.000-08:00

THE BONAVENTURE HOTEL L.A.

Rubik City

2011-02-04T10:26:00.000-08:00

PACKAGING

2011-02-03T10:28:00.000-08:00

PEOPLE IN THE CITY

2011-02-02T12:20:00.000-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX1M8EUCFXk

P.e.o.p.l.e.c.i.t.y
People in the city
P.e.o.p.l.e.c.i.t.y
People in the city
P.e.o.p.l.e.c.i.t.y
People in the city
P.e.o.p.l.e.c.i.t.y
People in the city

Moving, watching, working, sleeping, driving, walking, talking, smiling
Moving, watching, working, sleeping, driving, walking, talking, smiling
Moving, watching, working, sleeping, driving, walking, talking, smiling
Moving, watching, working, sleeping, driving, walking, talking, smiling

P.e.o.p.l.e.c.i.t.y
People in the city
P.e.o.p.l.e.c.i.t.y
People in the city
P.e.o.p.l.e.c.i.t.y
People in the city
P.e.o.p.l.e.c.i.t.y
People in the city

On the sidewalk (people in the city)
Near the street lamp (people in the city)
At the bus stop (people in the city)
Down the station (people in the city)

Moving, watching, working, sleeping, driving, walking, talking, smiling
Moving, watching, working, sleeping, driving, walking, talking, smiling
Moving, watching, working, sleeping, driving, walking, talking, smiling
Moving, watching, working, sleeping, driving, walking, talking, smiling
Moving, watching, working, sleeping, driving, walking, talking, smiling
Moving, watching, working, sleeping, driving, walking, talking, smiling.

Ford explorer y heidegger

2011-02-02T00:12:00.000-08:00

http://amelo14.wordpress.com/2002/04/22/reflections-espacialidad-en-heidegger-una-reconstruccion-spanish/

plano medieval.

2011-02-01T13:32:00.000-08:00

From here to everywhere

2011-02-01T13:04:00.000-08:00

On the boat