Technology as an Art form

Technology has enabled more people to be able to have the tools for creating art at their hands as well as a faster & more egalitarian way of sharing their art. Here is a beautiful video on liquids found on vimeo, shot close enough so that you can appreciate the properties of the subject. It [...]

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Music as a meditation on Science & Landform in Antartica

Paul Miller (aka DJ Spooky), in collaboration with Golden Hornet Project, will be performing his Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antartica tonight at UT’s Hogg Auditorium. It is a multi-media piece created in Antartica from portable studios set up in the field to capture the acoustic qualities of Antarctic ice forms, reflect a changing and even vanishing [...]

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Nature Apps: Keeping Plugged In While You Unplug

This summer my son & I attended the Stars at the Roughs at McKinney Roughs Nature Park for some star-gazing. As we were looking through the telescopes, a women next to me was holding her iPhone up against the night sky. On the iPhone’s screen was the night sky, with the constellations mapped out. The [...]

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Getting A Virtual Education

The wonderful thing about the web is that we have the world at our finger tips, virtually. You can see real-time photos of locations half-way across the globe, translate text from a foreign language into your own, and never again miss an answer on Jeopardy. Most major universities have a presence on the web where [...]

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Do You Arduino?

If you do, apparently you are not alone. But if you’re like me, you’ll need a definition (and an illustration) to be able to answer the question. So, in Arduino’s own words: Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It’s intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested [...]

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And Technology

I never thought that I would have a job in technology. I grew up playing with lizards & nature & got a degree in Ecology/ Conservation Biology. I was called a Ludite by my computer geek brother & proudly accepted the fact that I was resistant to all things technological. But, as I came to [...]

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