Your Brain On Fiction
NEW YORK TIMES March 17, 2012 Your Brain on Fiction By ANNIE MURPHY PAUL AMID the squawks and pings of our digital devices, the old-fashioned virtues of reading novels can seem faded, even futile. But new support for the value of fiction is arriving from an unexpected quarter: neuroscience. Brain scans are revealing what happens in our heads when we read a detailed description, an evocative metaphor or an emotional exchange between characters. Stories, this research is showing, stimulate the brain and even change how we act in life. Researchers have long known that the “classical” language...
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TED GLOBAL: IMOGEN HEAP MANIPULATES SOUND WITH HAND GESTURES By Kyana Gordon on July 12, 2011 via PSFK: Today, during her performance at the TEDGlobal Conference in Edinburgh, the singer/songwriter, Imogen Heap demonstrated a pair of magical, musical gloves that had audience members literally eating out of the palm of her hands. The high tech gloves connect an interface to a live musical production system controlled entirely with hand gestures. Developed by Dr. Thomas Mitchell, a lecturer and researcher at the University of the West of England, the gloves are like something out of the...
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Domes are becoming more and more popular as a media format. If you are an artist interested in getting involved with creating fulldome content this is a good introduction to the technical specifications needed to create content: http://artslab.unm.edu/78/hues-beginners-guide-to-fulldome-production
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c3: Center for Conscious Creativity produced the annual STATE OF THE ARTS: PRODUCING CHANGE event in September 2011 in partnership with the PGA: Producers Guild of America. The event was held at LA Center Studios and featured a panel of producers utilizing new media technologies for socially benefical causes. The first FUTUREVISION award was given to Writer/Creator Tim Kring for creating CONSPIRACY FOR GOOD on online ARG game created to raise funds for libraries in Africa www.conspiracyforgood.org. The event was preceded by a think tank session held in the Vortex Dome with...
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Fourth Wall does the ‘Dirty Work’ of innovation The studio is using new technology to create interactive programming it hopes will ‘pick up where Hollywood is dropping the ball.’ http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-fourth-wall-20120415,0,1360215.story
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