Word: screening
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Harvard Book Store. Coming from a society stifled by religous dogma, Mapplethorpe showed me a whole new world of expression. The New York artist's photography was a fascinating contrast of individual sight, perception and depiction. But just like the video is no substitute for movies on the big screen, a book is no substitute for the experience of standing in front of four larger than life images of Ajitto huddled up on a pedestal. So, this week, I went to the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) to see the work bigger than life...
...artificial life-forms are confined to a computer screen. At M.I.T.'s mobile robot lab (also known as the "artificial insect lab"), Rodney Brooks is building tiny six-legged creatures that are controlled by interconnected computer chips and that display behavior (scurrying for cover, stalking prey) that seems quite purposeful...
...disturbing about a good computer simulation. Take Craig Reynolds' flocking birds. By specifying a couple of simple rules -- keep a few wings' distance from your neighbors, try to fly as fast as they do -- Reynolds, a computer scientist at Symbolics, Inc., got bird-shaped objects on a screen to exhibit a flocking behavior that is absolutely convincing. The birds are artificial, but the flocking is real...
...craft that had sadly fallen into neglect. But spurred by hits like The Simpsons and The Little Mermaid, animation on both the big and small screen is booming once again...
...only predictable or tired aspect of the movie's conclusion is the device chosen to end it. Ford predictably does his voice-over while the same empty courtroom from the opening clip is again shown on screen...