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...Daniel Sousa's Minotaur (one of 9 RISD-affiliated entries) was an absolutely staggering 9-minute animation that took almost three years to complete. Joe Gibbon's Multiple Barbie began as a one-joke film of a man psychoanalyzing a schizophrenic Barbie-doll and then slowly morphed into a profound exploration of the director's own psychoses. Wendy MacNeil and Alice Wingwall gave us their Miss Blindsight: The Wingwall Auditions, a complex documentary about an artist who has lost her sight. These films are just a small sampling of the independent vision that was omnipresent at this festival. Each film...
...once awkward and elegant, corny and profound, the Whitney's selections, which can also be viewed online at www.whitney.org represent a provocative slice of this nascent art form. Take Ouija 2000 by Ken Goldberg, a site that displays live video of a real Ouija board controlled by the collective mouse strokes of as many as 20 people simultaneously logged on to the site. Another piece, Every Icon, shows a seemingly simple-looking grid that is 32 squares high and wide. Its creator, John Simon, devised a program that cycles through the trillions of ways the grid could be filled with...
...Other Worlds) and whose physicist dad served as dean of Princeton's faculty for 17 years, wrote about the chances of discovering another universe. "What appealed to me most about this project was that many of the questions are so basic that a child might ask them yet so profound and difficult that our writers felt challenged by them...
HORGAN: Here's the big question we're dancing around: Can we keep discovering profound new truths about reality forever, or is the process finite? You seem to assume that because science has advanced so rapidly over the past few centuries, it will continue to do so, possibly forever. But this view is, to use your word, ahistorical, based on faulty inductive logic. In fact, inductive logic suggests that the modern era of explosive scientific progress might be an anomaly, a product of a singular convergence of social, intellectual and political factors. If you accept this, then the only question...
...because I believe science is humanity's most meaningful creation. We are here to figure out why we are here. The thought that this grand adventure of discovery might end haunts me. What would it be like to live in a world without the possibility of further revelations as profound as evolution or quantum mechanics? Not everyone finds this prospect disturbing. The science editor of the Economist once pointed out to me that if science does end, we will still have sex and beer. Maybe that's the right attitude, but there aren't any Nobels in it. No matter...