Mar 9, 2010
onKawaraUpdate (v2) by MTAA
This art work updates and automates (via software) the process-oriented nature of On Kawara's date paintings. The artist's labor is essential to process-oriented art. What happens when that labor is removed?
instruction
If this web site is visited by anyone on a particular day, a date
page is created. If no one visits on a particular day, no
date page is created. Click the large date for news clips from that day.
Click the 'more' link for archives.
This work is licensed under the CC-GNU GPL. Download the source code.
editioning info
This official release of the web site (edition 1 of 3) is part of the
collection of computerfinearts.com. It was launched on July 8, 2007. This
notice will not appear on pages created earlier than that date.
Pennsylvania Woman Tied to Plot on Cartoonist
NYT > Home Page
Federal prosecutors accused Colleen R. LaRose, who called herself ?JihadJane,? of linking up online with militants overseas, culminating in an alleged murder plot.
MRI's successes put the brain on trial
Ars Technica
A typical neuroscience paper (or a typical report on one) is a laundry list of structure:function relationships between brain regions and the mental tasks they perform. The amygdala deals with registering rewards, the hippocampus handles memory, and so on. These relationships have been the result of over a century of work, starting with rare cases of brain injury and building through modern medical imaging, which can detect ever-smaller lesions and associate neural activity with specific cognitive processes. Doctors routinely rely on the combination of brain imaging and structure:function relationships for diagnostic purposes, but is wider society willing to trust it in the courtroom, where it might make the difference between guilt and innocence?
That question was handled in a rather unusual manner at the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science: a mock trial. Most other panels consisted of a set of scientists who each gave a fairly standard presentation. This one was presided over by Louis Rodriguez, an Orange County Superior Court Judge, and featured a law school professor and a practicing attorney, each with a neuroscientist as an expert witness. Although the proceedings were heavily scripted, anyone who's sat through a jury trial would recognize that they were a reasonable attempt to approximate a normal courtroom experience.
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