This week's first steps into the macro universe included two videos by the UK artist duo Semiconductor--we watched their videos Brilliant Noise (2006) made from raw data images of the Sun, and Magnetic Movie (2007), both of which uses very interesting soundscapes to explore the reality of background radiation in the universe by utilizing very low frequency field recordings or 'natural radio' . Find out more aobut this by checking out VLF guru Steve MacGreevey.
The we watched another TED talk, this one by physicist Janna Levin, who also writes novels. Here's a Seed Salon video version of a conversation about Truth & Beauty between Levin and author Jonathan Lethem that is a companion to the handout we read from Science is Culture.
Lastly we looked at some incredible 16mm films by Courtney Hoskins, a graduate of CU Boulder's Film Dept who keeps a blog called An Astronomer in Hollywood. She made a suiteof films in response to the Jupiter mission's data on the moons, called The Galilean Satellites.
Now we might just be ready for Professor Andrew Hamilton's visit.
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