‘Memories of a New Future’ opens at YoloArts Barn Gallery
"El Bote 04," Oil on canvas by Mel Smothers. (COURTESY)
In a new exhibition exploring the meaning of art during a pandemic, YoloArts will debut “Memories of a New Future,” a multi-media exhibition featuring the artwork of Yolo County and regional artists, makers, and thinkers.
The Barn Gallery’s exhibition includes sculpture, paintings, drawings, photography, prints, mixed media installations and digital media.
“Memories of a New Future” includes the artwork of these artists:
- Lynn Beldner, Multi-media, installation-based artist
- Steve Briscoe, Sculptor
- Melissa Chandon, UCD Professor of Design, painter
- Chris Daubert, Artist, writer, curator
- Glenda Drew, UCD Professor of Design, filmmaker, media artist
- Jesse Drew, UCD Professor of Cinema and Digital Media, filmmaker, media artist
- Mel Smothers, Contemporary artist
See the full story here: https://www.dailydemocrat.com/2020/09/06/memories-of-a-new-future-opens-at-yoloarts-barn-gallery/
BEN GOERTZEL AI MASTERMIND, FOUNDER SINGULARITYNET – WHAT KIND OF MIND CAN WE ENGINEER?
Listen to the podcast here: https://irishtechnews.ie/ben-goertzel-ai-mastermind-founder-singularitynet/
Ben Goertzel Interview focus questions:
1. An introduction from Ben – background, overview, education…
2. The way you look at AI, AGI, open AI?
3. Career highlights?
4. Your companies and focus
5. What is your main focus as a doer?
6. Can you show an example of of open AI
7. You have a focus on open AI and Artificial General Intelligence? Can you elaborate on this?
8. You are a thinker, philosopher and as we look at evolution how do you see Singularity, special when it comes to the 2 visions of humanity the light side and the dark side?
9. What are Ben’s goals and focus as a thinker and a doer?
10. With Covid-19 how can you look at this as a way to redesign our society
11. As a science fiction reader, writer and enthusiastic what is your vision of the Future you would like to create?
FELIX & PAUL, ALLIANCE OF GLOBAL TELCOS SIGN DEAL FOR IMMERSIVE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION SERIES
Felix & Paul Studios, which specializes in virtual reality (VR) films, has signed a co-financing and distribution deal with an alliance of global telecom companies for the upcoming season of a show that chronicles the lives of astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS).
Among the participating telecom companies, which are part of a newly formed group, the Global XR Content Telco Alliance, are LG Uplus, Bell Canada, KDDI, China Telecom, as well as Qualcomm Technologies. The deal with Felix & Paul is the first for the alliance.
In addition to the financing, the amount of which has not been disclosed, several of the telcos have also agreed to distribute the series, called Space Explorers, to their subscribers. Space Explorers is created in an immersive, mobile 360-degree format and follows astronauts as they adapt to life on the ISS.
A.I. and the threat of totalitarianism
Simon McCarthy-Jones, Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology at Trinity College Dublin, reveals why the ‘technological elite’ require ‘checks and balances’ in the use and development of artificial intelligence.
He told Express.co.uk: “AI is the ultimate source of knowledge, making it the ultimate source of power.
“The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, says that whoever leads the world in AI will rule it. He is right.
“The only remаining question is whether, in а decаde’s time, it will be the US, the EU, or Chinа who leаds in this аreа.”
See the full SHORT article here: https://entertainmentoverdose.co.uk/news/ai-expert-system-threat-of-helping-totalitarians-unmatched-power-241154.html
Facebook is working on AR glasses that could change the way we hear
Facebook’s FRL Research department is working a pair of augmented reality glasses that will change how wearers hear as well as see.
The primary pitch for the new technology involves using an array of microphones in the frame of the glasses to focus on a person as they’re speaking. The glasses could then identify the source of the sound you’re trying to hear and use a combination of hardware and software solutions to isolate it from background noise. The final result isn’t unlike what you might expect from a hearing aid.Augmented reality could be the geology classroom’s killer app
Geology is a very spatial science and can require a lot of 3-D visualization. Simple physical models (not to mention rocks) have long been used to aid teaching about things like faults or crystalline mineral structure. But these things can be surprisingly costly and occupy a surprising amount of storage space.
Ars talked to Martin Pratt about his work as part of a Washington University in St. Louis group that is developing apps for classes, both for specialized devices like Microsoft’s HoloLens and for the phones most students already have.
While completing a Ph.D. in seismology a few years ago, Pratt had taken an interest in data visualization along the way. He took on the challenge to work on creating AR apps, starting with one (iOS only) that allows users to explore up-to-date USGS earthquake data in three dimensions rather than just a 2-D map. You can much more easily understand the geometry of a tectonic plate boundary this way, or even explore the pattern of foreshocks and aftershocks around an earthquake.
See the full story here: https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/09/augmented-reality-could-be-the-geology-classrooms-killer-app/
Drive-in events see huge uptick thanks to country music
The drive-in industry, once a mainstay for movies, is now catering to all types of performances, from music, to comedy to the circus, as the coronavirus pandemic continues to keep venues closed.
See the full story here: https://www.axios.com/drive-in-events-see-huge-uptick-thanks-to-country-music-e09a7436-5c8b-4645-94b4-a67810999720.html
YET ANOTHER ARTICLE ABOUT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND THE CHARACTER OF WAR
War has an unchanging nature. War is violent, interactive, and fundamentally political. War’s character, by contrast, changes, and reflects how technology, law, ethics, and many other factors influence combatants’ use of violence to create political outcomes.
The evolving nature of information technology and its use by militaries may change the character of war. If and when this takes place, competence in and even mastery of some previous ways of war will become less relevant. Failure to lead the next change to the character of war could result in the U.S. military’s advantages in training, resources, and technology quickly diminishing or disappearing altogether.
Information Technology and the Character of War
Napoleonic warfare found agrarian societies pitting their armies and, at its pinnacle, most of their resources against one another. Similarly, World War II showed the devastation that industrial nations could produce. The four possibilities below explore how information technology may affect the character of war.
Autonomy
Software’s Acceleration of Adaptation
Infrastructure as a Weapon System
Individualization of War and Politics
... the effects of a new type of technology are only fully revealed when two well-developed forces fight each other, creating emergent effects that cannot be predicted by viewing the forces in isolation. No-one knows the system behavior that will emerge when information age forces fight each other.
See the full story here: https://warontherocks.com/2020/09/yet-another-article-about-information-technology-and-the-character-of-war/