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An Email Chain with Lev Bratishenko
No full textLev Bratishenko is a curator and writer producing research in public, and Twister of Meaning at The Cosmic House in London. His projects include 21 Games You Can Play With A Cosmic House (2023), How to: mind the moon (2023), For those who will come (2023), How to: do no harm (2022), How to: reward and punish (2021), Docu-dramas (2020), How to: disturb the public (2019), My Invisible Friend (2019), Should we worry? (2019), How to: not make an architecture magazine (2018), No parks? (2017), Come and Forget (2017). As inaugural Curator Public at the Canadian Centre for Architecture from 2016-2023, he introduced new formats like the “counter-tour” and the “institutional performance festival.” He was editor of It’s All Happening So Fast: A Counter-History of the Canadian Environment (CCA / JAPSAM, 2016) and curator of The object is not online (2010). His writing on architecture, music, and technology has appeared in publications including Abitare Apollo, The Architectural Review, Arkitektur, Architect’s Newspaper, Canadian Architect, Cabinet, Disegno, Fazer, Gizmodo, The Globe and Mail, The Guardian, Icon, Literary Review of Canada, Maclean’s, Manifest, Mark, The Montreal Gazette, Tribune, Triple Canopy, Opera Canada, Opera News, and Uncube
Down To Earth
No full text'Down to Earth' critically unpacks the project of space mining through the perspective of resources. With the space of the pavilion itself turned into a lunar laboratory, a stage where the performance of extraction takes place, the exhibition focuses on the unveiling of the backstages of the space mining project, offering another way of seeing the Moon that goes beyond the current optics of the Anthropocene.
On display in the exhibition is the materials library from How To: Mind The Moon (curated by Lev Bratishenko, Canadian Centre for Architecture) featuring datasheets and objects produced by participants Amelyn Ng, Jane Mah Hutton, Fred Scharmen, Anastasia Kubrak, Bethany Rigby.
Curated by Maria Maric and Francelle Cane, Down To Earth - the Luxembourg Pavillion at La Biennale Architettura, Venice, Italy.
Over 102,000 visitors attended the Luxembourg Pavillion in 2023.
Exhibition Image Credit: Antoine Espinasseau, 2023
Author Lev Raphael reads from his work at the Michigan Writers Series
No full textInternationally acclaimed author and Greater Lansing resident, Lev Raphael, reads from his memoir "My Germany". He recounts his travels to the NAZI labor camp where his mother was held during World War II and coming to terms with his mother's traumatic past. Introduced by Michigan State University Librarian Michael Rodriguez at an event held at the MSU Main Library. Part of the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series
Selected papers of Lev P Gor'kov
No full textThe author of this unique volume, Lev P Gor'kov is internationally renowned for his seminal contribution in the fundamentals of the Theory of Superconductivity, Theory of Metals, the field of Quantum Statistical Physics, and more generally, Organic Metals and the like. Each reprints' group is preceded by the author's introductions and commentaries clarifying the formulation of a problem, summarizing the essence of the results and placing them in the context of recent developments. The author belongs to the last generation of scientists who were the direct disciples of the legendary Russian theorist Lev Landau. And Gor'kov's achievements reflect the unique style and the originality of this famous Scientific School. As with other Russian scientists of his generation, many of the pioneering papers by Lev Gor'kov have been published in the Russian journals that are hard-to-reach for modern readers, students and postdocs. Allowing readers a glimpse into the various ways that the field of condensed matter physics was evolving for more than half a century, the volume is a valuable source for historians of science.Readership: For researchers in condensed matter physics, including postdoctoral and advanced graduate students. It may also be of interest to historians of science, as well as the general public with a university level of education
The class of the affine line is a zero divisor in the Grothendieck ring
No full textWe show that the class of the affine line is a zero divisor in the Grothendieck ring of algebraic varieties over complex numbers. The argument is based on the Pfaffian-Grassmannian double mirror correspondence.Peer reviewe
How To: Mind The Moon
No full textHow To: Mind The Moon was a workshop that culminated in the generation of a perverted material library by Lev Bratishenko, Francelle Cane, Anastasia Kubrak, Jane Mah Hutton, Marija Marić, Amelyn Ng, Bethany Rigby, and Fred Scharmen.
"Space mining, the extraction of resources in outer space, is a project tending to become a reality. In search of rare minerals, metals, and other valuable materials, the wild imaginaries of extraction-driven growth have literally transcended the boundaries of Earth. This displacement of resource exploitation from the exhausted Earth to its ‘invisible’ hinterland—the Moon and other celestial bodies—calls for an urgent debate on the impact this shift will have on our understanding of land, resources, and commons.
How to: mind the moon offers another way of reading five lunar materials: regolith, lunar dust, solar wind, seconal sodium, and aluminium. A perversion of the format of a material sample and datasheet—technical documents commonly used in material science to describe chemical and mechanical properties of materials—the workshop outlines another kind of material library, that which goes beyond the perceived scientific neutrality of materials. Instead, it frames the political, social, environmental, and cultural conditions of materials, both as a physical matter and a form of fiction."
[Workshop Description from CCA: How To Mind The Moon]
How To: Mind The Moon was a workshop hosted by the Canadian Centre for Architecture. This project would have been impossible without research conversations with Abigail Calzada Diaz, Ian Crawford, Alice Gorman, and Rory Rowan.
How to: mind the moon was developed in collaboration with the Luxembourg Pavilion at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.
The outcome of the workshop, a material library, was produced and exhibited as part of the exhibition Down to Earth of the 2023 Luxembourg Pavilion in Sale d’Armi, Arsenale di Venezia, curated by Francelle Cane and Marija Marić
Tekutá dělba moci aneb hledání odrazu politiky v zrcadle práva (Případová studie připravované právní úpravy národních individuálních sankcí v České republice)
No full textThe author demonstrates, using the example of the individual sanctions, the conflict between the social demand of flexibility and reactionary-effectivity of enforcing the political goals and social values in the complex world in form of sanctions against the individuals by the executive power, i.e. de facto punishments, with the traditional separation of powers according to which the decision-making (judgement) on punishments is exclusively role of the judiciary. The author is focusing especially on the Czech legislation-in-preparation of the individual sanctions of which the author is the legislative drafter. The case study of individual sanctions is used to demonstrate the liquidity of separation of powers in modern democratic state, following the ideas of Zygmut Bauman and his phenomenon of liquid society
Icons of age of Lev Danylovych
No full textВ статті розглядається західноукраїнська іконографія часів Лева
Даниловича. Автор доводить, що тогочасна іконографічна спадщина
становить окреме історичне явище у західноукраїнському релігійному
малярстві XIII ст.В статье рассматривается западноукраинская иконография времен
Льва Даниловича. Автор доказывает, что иконографическое наследие
того времени представляет собой обособленное историческое явление в
западноукраинской религиозной живописи XIII ст.In paper has been considered Western Ukrainian iconography of age of Lev
Danylovych. The author proved that iconography heritage iconography of age
of Lev Danylovych had been separate historical phenomenon in Western
Ukrainian religious painting of 13th century
1915 Armenian Van Revolt According To The Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy’s (Famous Russian Author) Daughter Alexsandra Lvovna Tolstaya’s Memories
No full textIn this article, it was evaluated the impressions and the information given about Armenian rebellion at Van according to the Alexsandra Lvovna Tolstaya’s Memories (Daughter of the famous Russian author Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy) Where she came the last week of June in1915
AI-aesthetics and the anthropocentric myth of creativity
No full textSince the beginning of the 21st century, technologies like neural networks, deep learning and “artificial intelligence” (AI) have gradually entered the artistic realm. We witness the development of systems that aim to assess, evaluate and appreciate artifacts according to artistic and aesthetic criteria or by observing people’s preferences. In addition to that, AI is now used to generate new synthetic artifacts. When a machine paints a Rembrandt, composes a Bach sonata, or completes a Beethoven symphony, we say that this is neither original nor real art, but simply the complex imitation and reproduction of existing products of human culture. We face the old question concerning the nature of creativity: what kind of recombination of ideas, unusual analogies, and conceptual connections are considered the mark of originality? Can AI produce artworks? Could machines reach a point at which we consider them genuinely creative? We also need to investigate the challenges posed by AI-art to the notion of authoriality: Who is the author of an artificially generated artifact? An artificial system could be considered just an artist’s and a programmer’s tool. However, we are also fascinated by the idea of autonomous artificial creativity in the aesthetic domain, as a manifestation of highly intelligent behavior. This paper will try to define some key questions around what could it mean to consider a machine creative or even equipped with artistic intentionality
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