Word: visual
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...laboratory specifically studies how the vertebrate retina takes in visual information, processes and transforms this information and then processes electrical signals which serve as input to the brain...
They are currently trying to figure out how the features of a visual image are encoded in the spike trains that retinal ganglion cells send to the brain...
...Visual artist Alonzo Adams decried theprevalence of remixing by black musicians inpopular music. "It bothers me," he said. "With allthe gifts laid before us, why do we have to keepreaching back and doing it over and over and overagain...
During the seventies, the physical size of the paper increased once again and editors began to play with visual effects, such as using different fonts for page headings, using drawings and placing more emphasis on photos...
...dancing to the beat of his own heart. A device modified by artist Christopher Janney will capture electrical impulses passing between Baryshnikov's head, heart and feet and use them to regulate musical accompaniment, making the dancer's body the conductor. "My work is like a visual jazz," says Janney. Amplifying nature's rhythms is Janney's specialty. He built what may be the largest piece of interactive public art ever--a 180-ft.-high mosaic of colored glass--in the Miami airport. What's interactive about it? The mosaic reacts to human contact, emitting sounds of the Everglades. Janney...