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...Inflight,” Grimonprez’s startling video lounge installation about airplane hijacking, is one of four main exhibitions at MIT’s List Visual Arts Center. Released in conjunction with the 2001 Boston Cyberarts Festival, these expressive digital presentations again pose the controversial question, “What...
...genius of these exhibits is not the fact that they are digital art, it’s the fact that this art cannot easily be categorized. Audio, visual and tactile elements are intentionally used or not used to capture a certain ambiance in each atmosphere—this isn’t your traditional art studio...
Films are windows and mirrors of nations; they plant images, perhaps indelible, of a country's people and personality. But the windows can be fogged by ignorance or prejudice. And the mirrors may be distorted - fun-house reflections that amount to a kind of visual libel. Often the cinematic views are those of outsiders, painting the Other with a coat of exoticism. But at times the oddest depictions are from the country itself...
...pigeons. Store shelves groan with new products purported to stimulate babies' brains in ways harried parents don't have time for. There are baby Mozart tapes said to enhance spatial reasoning and perhaps musical and artistic abilities too. There are black, white and red picture books, said to sharpen visual acuity. There are bilingual products said to train baby brains so they will be more receptive to multiple languages. The hard sell even follows kids to the one place you'd think they'd be allowed some peace--the womb--with handheld tummy speakers designed to pipe music and voices...
...even be possible to prod children's intellectual growth. As babies' brains weave their neuronal connections, parents may be able to stimulate, say, the visual or musical ones by exposing kids to picture books or CDs, but it is doubtful that these fortify the brain in any meaningful way. "It's a myth that we can accelerate a child's developmental milestones," says Alan Woolf, a pediatrician at Children's Hospital. "Children are kind of preprogrammed to reach those points." Bruer puts it more bluntly: "The idea that you can provide more synapses by stimulating the child more...