Wikipedia on a figure from the previous post —
" Antonelli was recognized with an AIGA Medal in 2015
for 'expanding the influence of design in everyday life
by sharing fresh and incisive observations and
curating provocative exhibitions at MoMA'.[4] She was
rated one of the one hundred most powerful people in
the world of art by Art Review and Surface Magazine.[5] "
Speaking of exhibitions —
Washington Post dateline . . .
November 20 at 6:34 PM
Address . . .
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/
eight-women-say-charlie-rose-sexually-harassed-them–
with-nudity-groping-and-lewd-calls/2017/11/20/ . . .
See also Charlie Rose in this journal.
The only post found in a Log24 search for "Charlie Rose" is about
his May 7, 2008, interview with a Museum of Modern Art figure,
Paola Antonelli. A more recent appearance by Antonelli —
Synchronolgy check — Log24 on the date 5 June 2012.
* Title and wording of post revised the following day.
"Design is how it works." — Steven Jobs
A comment on the life of Jobs —
Paola Antonelli
Photo Credit: Andrea Ciotti
Paola Antonelli, senior curator of architecture and design
at the Museum of Modern Art in New York—
“NeXT was a risk and a beautiful failure."
Related material—
and 2008 posts of
"… the startling thesis of Mr. Brosterman's new book, 'Inventing Kindergarten' (Harry N. Abrams, $39.95): that everything the giants of modern art and architecture knew about abstraction they learned in kindergarten, thanks to building blocks and other educational toys designed by Friedrich Froebel, a German educator, who coined the term 'kindergarten' in the 1830's."
— "Was Modernism Born
in Toddler Toolboxes?"
by Trip Gabriel, New York Times,
April 10, 1997
Figure 1 —
Concept from 1819:
(Footnotes 1 and 2)
Figure 2 —
The Third Gift, 1837:
Froebel, the inventor of
kindergarten, worked as
an assistant to the
crystallographer Weiss
mentioned in Fig. 1.
(Footnote 3)
Figure 3 —
The Third Gift, 1906:
Figure 4 —
Solomon's Cube,
1981 and 1983:
Figure 5 —
Design Cube, 2006:
The above screenshot shows a
moveable JavaScript display
of a space of six dimensions
(over the two-element field).
(To see how the display works,
try the Kaleidoscope Puzzle first.)
"Philosophers ponder the idea
of identity: what it is to give
something a name on Monday
and have it respond to
that name on Friday…."
|
Monday:
From Log24 on
"Perhaps we are meant to |
Related material
for today's anniversay
of the birth of philosopher
Jose Ortega y Gasset:
Cubism as Multispeech
and
Halloween Meditations
(illustrated below)
"Modern art…
will always have
the masses against it."
— Ortega y Gasset, 1925
Today is the feast of
Saint Robert A. Heinlein.
Time of the above: 1:00 PM.
Update of 2:07 PM —
On the local Charlie Rose broadcast today at about 1:48 PM, Paola Antonelli, the organizer of an exhibit at MoMA, "Design and the Elastic Mind," talked about science fiction's influence (or non-influence) on the exhibit. She used the metaphor "the day after tomorrow." As I had just written a link relating design, science fiction, and May 10 (the date of the literal day after tomorrow– click on "feast" above), I found her remarks of interest. Here is a related passage from a web page.
Antonelli on scientists as designers who do not call themselves designers:
"So they all try to reach out. They have that in common. Then what they have in common is this attempt to… propose something for the real future. I don't really like science fiction, but I like to think of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow."
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