Showing only Notes + Links tagged knowledge
Jan 27, 2010comments
The grandeur of real art…is to discover, grasp again and lay before us the reality from which we live so far removed and from which we become more and more separated as the formal knowledge which we substitute for it grows in thickness and imperviousness—that reality which there is grave danger we might die without ever having known and yet which is simply our life.Marcel Proust, The Vocation of the Artist, in The Creative Vision, via Notes of the Author on The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski
Dec 9, 2009comments
Sino un Estado by Carlos Fdez-Pello
This installation by Carlos Fdez-Pello suggests that knowledge is a state, not information. The literal translation of the title is “But a State.” It’s the Allegory of the Cave brought into the 21st century!
Oct 11, 2009comments
Knowing and unknowing are equally important in art making.C. Telfer
May 18, 2009comments
Wolfram Alpha — Computational Knowledge Engine →
So it turns out that Wolfram’s new search engine Wolfram Alpha is not a direct competitor with Google, but instead a “computational knowledge engine” that does a good job making visual and logical sense of certain things. Such as, how many horns on a unicorn, among other examples.
