An interdisciplinary vue d'ensemble

Guest lecture given at the University of Oregon, USA. Oct. 15, 2015. Part of week 3, lecture series: understanding contemporary media.

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1. Guest Lecturer: Georges Hattab Faculty of Technology, Int. Research Training Group 1906, DiDy and Biodata Mining Group
 University of Bielefeld, Germany Week 3: Integration
 An interdisciplinary vue d’ensemble 1
2. “ Informatics methods for the acquisition, analysis, mining and visualisation of images produced by modern microscopy, with an emphasis on the application of novel computing techniques to solve challenging and significant biological and medical problems at the molecular, sub-cellular, cellular, and super-cellular (organ, organism, and population) levels. ” 
 
 
 Peng H, Bateman A, Valencia A, Wren JD. Bioimage informatics: a new category in Bioinformatics. Bioinformatics. 2012;28(8):1057. doi:10.1093/ bioinformatics/bts111. SHORT PRESENTATION Courtesy of JP. Schlueter Research - Bioinformatics 2
3. SCIENCE OR ART ? Small World Contest Nikon Microscopy 2014 3 3rd Prize - Mr. Noah Fram-Schwartz, Greenwich, Conneticut, USA Specimen: Jumping spider eyes (20x) Technique: Reflected Light 1st Prize - Mr. Rogelio Moreno, Panama, Panama Specimen: Rotifer showing the mouth interior and heart shaped corona (40x) Technique: Differential Interference Contrast 2nd Prize - Mr. Alessandro Da Mommio, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy Specimen: Rhombohedral cleavage in calcite crystal (10x) Technique: Polarised Light
4. Art - Curation SHORT PRESENTATION 4
7. GLOBALMISSIONOFART.COM 7
8. Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund Graduate Fellowships for International Research 8
9. 1. PERCEPTION 9 1 the ability to see, hear, or become aware of something through the senses.
10. WHAT IS AN IMAGE ? Image constitutes a spatial distribution of the irradiance at a plane. 10
11. WHAT IS AN IMAGE ? Digital Image Processing. Springer. 2002 11 Each point is called a pixel or pel (picture element)
12. The Kaiapó natives live along the Xingu River, in Mato Grosso. Their vast territory is formed mostly by tropical forests.Their body painting is very symbolic and signifies status and social behavior. The design is geometric with intricate lines, mainly in red and black. HOW PERCEIVING AFFECTS US ? “When we look at a rock what we are seeing is not the rock, but the effect of the rock upon us.” 
 Bertrand Russell Courtesy of outsidemom.com Courtesy of climbingreport.com 12
13. 1.1. THE GESTALT PRINCIPLES Courtesy of yusylvia.wordpress.com 13
14. SIMILARITY AND PROXIMITY Similar (and close) objects are often perceived as a group Martin Parr 14
15. CONTINUATION Separate objects are often perceived as one Jens Assur 15
16. CLOSURE The observer tends to mentally close the gaps to form a perception of a whole object Cig Harvey 16
17. SYMMETRY Adds harmony, consistency and structure to objects of interest Henri Cartier-Bresson 17
18. FIGURE AND GROUND Objects’ properties and positions to reveal other objects 18
19. PERIODICITY Emphasis on the nature of things 19 Reuters/Damir Sagolj Dadaab: World's Biggest Refugee Camp Turns 20. Courtesy of UNHCR
20. 2.1. COGNITION 20 1 the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses.
21. 21 CARL GUSTAV JUNG Psychiatrist - Psychotherapist “ The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not-which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making him responsible for his dreams. ” 
 Psychology and Alchemy (1944). CW 12: P.51 “ The world comes into being when man discovers it.” Symbols of Transformation. (1952). CW 5: P.652
22. THE SCIENCE Brain Activity - Neuroplasticity A person's head is linked to a computer monitor with an EEG headset (pictured) and the electronic impulses of the brain measured while a song is being played 22
23. 3. INFORMATION 23 P.187 illustration in Old Deccan Days 1 facts provided or learned about something or someone.
24. “ Claude Shannon, father of information theory, separated information from meaning. It is our task as humans to bring meaning back into this wasteland. As finite creatures who think and feel, we can create islands of meaning in the sea of information. ” 
 Freeman Dyson, in his review of James Gleick’s book on information, in NYRB. CLAUDE ELWOOD SHANNON Mathematician - Electronic Engineer - Cryptographer “I just wondered how things were put together.” The experimental mouse maze constructed of relays demonstrated machine learning. 1952 24
25. 4. CREATIVITY - EXPRESSION 25 1 the use of imagination or original ideas to create something; inventiveness. 2 the action of making known one's thoughts or feelings.
26. “All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.”
 Friedrich Nietzsche Books smolder in a huge bonfire in Germany (1933). Catholic school students burn thousands of comic books in Binghamton, New York (1948). 4.1. INTERPRETATION 26
27. “The limits of my language means the limits of my world.” 
 Ludwig Wittgenstein 4.2. LANGUAGE “If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.”
 Seamus Heaney 27
28. 5. EXPRESSION AND THE PHYSICAL BODY “Music is an outburst of the soul.” 
 Frederick Delius “People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish... but that's only if it's done properly.” Banksy Aryz street graffiti artist CC Wikimedia 28
29. THE MONOTONE SYMPHONY March 1960, at the Galerie Internationale d'Art Contemporain in Paris, Yves Klein conducted a ten piece orchestra written in 1949. 29
30. "I pray with all of my love for tulips" installation by Yayoi Kusama at the National Museum of Art, Osaka, 2012 “Polka dots can't stay alone. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots we become part of the unity of our environments.” Yayoi Kusama Self-Obliteration By Dots. 1968.
 © Hal Reiff 30
32. To be an individual means the relationship, you have with your surroundings. You are not consciously allowing your surroundings to swallow you up. LIU BOLIN - THE INVISIBLE MAN 32
33. Thank you @GeorgesVis georgeshattab.blogspot.com ghattab Twitter Blog GitHub https://speakerdeck.com/ghattab/an-interdisciplinary-vue-densemble Slides