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Mark Changizi – “Cultural selection as the new blind watchmaker” at “I don’t know where I’m going but I want to be there”

(This article was cross-posted on the Masters of Media blog.) In his presentation at MOTI‘s “I don’t know where I’m going but I want to be there” theoretical neurobiologist Mark Changizi elaborated on the research method he applies to investigate the field of why it is that the human brain processes optical information like it [...]

Report: This Happened #7

Last Monday, I attended at yet another edition (the seventh) of the This Happened series, events where (interaction) designers reflect upon their projects, work philosophy and developments in the field. After my experience with This Happened #6, I had high expectations (and the fact that this time reservations were close within 8 minutes instead of [...]

INFODECODATA and Manuel Lima about the rise of the info-visualisation research field

First off, I’d first like mention an upcoming symposium as a part of the INFODECODATA exhibition (Sunday 13 June 2010, Graphic Design Museum Breda). There’ll be plenty of interesting speakers including Lev Manovich (in my opinion horrible in discussions), Jack van Wijck and Yuri Engelhardt discussing fundamental questions like ‘Will the Graphic Designer become a [...]

This Happened, let’s hope for more to happen!

Last Monday I had the chance to attend at the sixth edition of the immensely popular event called This Happened, held at the HKU (Utrecht’s art academy) theatre. With the registations being closed within merely 58 (!) seconds you’d figure that there would be some quality keynotes to be held. And actually, there were some [...]