lectures/ideas: 04/25/16

2016-04-25

Wim Wenders. Ultimate test to 3D language. 2015

source: European Graduate School 2016年4月16日
http://egs.edu/ Wim Wenders, Professor of Film at The European Graduate School / EGS. On his approach to 3D and film-making. Fragment of a lecture for the students of the Division of Philosophy, Art & Critical Thought at the European Graduate School EGS, Saas-Fee, Switzerland. 2015.

Wim Wenders (b. 1945) is a film director, writer, and photographer. He is a professor of film at The European Graduate School / EGS and Professor für Narrativen Film at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg. Wenders is considered one of the most important figures to have emerged from the “New German Cinema” in the 1970s and was a founding member of the German film distribution company “Filmverlag der Autoren”. In 1977, he established his own production company in Berlin, “Road Movies,” which has produced many of his films, as well as numerous films by Ken Loach. Wenders received the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or in 1984 for his movie Paris, Texas, the Golden Lion at the 1982 Venice Film Festival for The State of Things, and won best director at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival for Wings of Desire. He has also been nominated three times for the Academy Awards for his films Buena Vista Social Club (2000), Pina (2012), and, most recently, The Salt of the Earth (2015).

Born in Düsseldorf, Wenders grew up in Düsseldorf, Koblenz and the surrounding areas. His early studies followed in the footsteps of his father with Wenders spending a year studying medicine in Freiburg (1963-1964), followed by a year studying philosophy (1964-1965). However, in 1966, he dropped out of university and moved to Paris to become a painter. In Paris, he worked as an engraver and has often described this period as the loneliest time of his life. As a result, he started to spend more and more time at Henri Langlois’s Cinémathèque and became enchanted by film, watching more than five films per day. After this experience, he returned to Germany and attended the University of Television and Film in Munich from 1967 to 1970, where he also began working as a film critic for Süddeutsche Zeitung and Filmkritik.

Wenders’s directorial debut was also his thesis film, Summer in the City, produced in 1970. This film also marks the start of a long and fruitful collaboration with his frequent cinematographer Robby Müller. His second film, The Goalkeeper’s Fear of the Penalty (1972), marked the beginning of another important collaboration––that with the Austrian writer Peter Handke. The Goalkeeper’s Fear of the Penalty was Wender’s adaptation of Handke’s critically acclaimed novel. Handke also wrote the script for Wenders’s movie The Wrong Move (1975) and co-wrote with Wenders the script for Wings of Desire (1987). Wenders sees the primary theme of this period in his career as “the Americanization of Germany.”

Currently, Wim Wenders’s work explores 3D as a new language of filmmaking. The films If Buildings Could Talk (2010), Pina (2011), and Every Thing Will Be Fine (2015) approach this question from different perspectives. If Buildings Could Talk, Wenders’s short film about The Berlin Philharmonic, within the six-part omnibus Cathedrals of Culture (2014), uses 3D technology to offer a unique experience of architectural space, while Pina (2011), about dance choreographer Pina Bausch and her company, attempts to present movement, dance, and physicality in a new and visceral way. According to Wenders, 3D technology possesses hidden revolutionary potential that still remains unexplored. He insists that the language of 3D makes everything more visible, more emphatic––including the acting––as in Every Thing Will Be Fine (2015), the slightest show of emotion is perceived as “overacting,” and as such, this technique demands a new approach from the actor. According to Wenders, the 3D camera fundamentally questions and alters the profession of an actor, and therefore creates a completely new mindset both for the making and perception of films.

Presently, Wim Wenders and his wife, photographer Donata Wenders, live in Berlin. In the fall of 2012, they established the Wim Wenders Foundation situated in Düsseldorf. By acquiring the rights to all of his films, including those currently held by third parties, its primary aim is to make Wim Wenders’s oeuvre permanently accessible to the public at large. As well, the foundation provides a stipend, the Wim Wenders Bursary, for young filmmakers and artists “whose vision is to tell stories with new aesthetic and technical means and to enrich and renew our visual language.”

Why is being scared so fun? - Margee Kerr

source: TED-Ed 2016年4月21日
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-do-we-l...
At this very moment, people are lining up somewhere to scare themselves, be it with a thrill-ride or a horror movie. In fact, in October of 2015 alone, about 28 million people visited a haunted house in the US. But you might wonder: What could possibly be fun about being scared? Margee Kerr examines the biology and psychology behind what makes fear so fun.
Lesson by Margee Kerr, animation by Meduzaz animation studio.

Stanford engineers build a one-of-a-kind wind tunnel for birds and drones

source: Stanford 2016年4月22日
Stanford engineering professor David Lentink plans to use a new wind tunnel to learn the magic of bird flight and apply it to building better aerial robots.

Defining the Humanities: Prehistoric Archaeology

source: Stanford 2016年4月21日
Associate Professor of Anthropology John Rick discusses prehistoric archaeology and the significance of an ancient site in Peru known as Chavín de Huántar.

From AIDS to Zika: Institutional Innovation and Global Health

source: Simon Fraser University 2016年4月22日
SFU President’s Faculty Lecture featuring Dr. Kelley Lee, Tier 1 Canada Research Chair & Professor of Health Sciences presenting: ‘From AIDS to Zika: Institutional innovation and global health.’

Childhood maltreatment through the lens of neuroscience and epigenetics ...

source: UCL Lunch Hour Lectures 2016年3月2日
Speaker: Professor Eamon McCrory
UCL Psychology and Language Sciences
Childhood maltreatment is a strong predictor of mental and physical ill health. How does such adversity 'get under the skin'? Latent vulnerability is one way of thinking about how maltreatment calibrates biological and neurocognitive systems, in ways that may be adaptive in the short-term but incur long-term costs.

H E I D I L E E: "3D Print Fashion Maker" | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google 2016年3月23日
Design alchemist and Silicon Valley Fashion Week participant H E I D I L E E will visit Google's The Garage to share her creative process and insights into 3D fashion making.
A RISD graduate and recipient of the 2012 Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Accessory Design Award, H E I D I L E E is a NYC-based artist and designer whose hats have featured in VOGUE, V, Visionaire, Dazed & Confused, MTV, SHOWstudio, NYT, The Creators Project, etc. Selected exhibitions include MOSI Museum’s “3D Printing the Future” and MAD Museum’s “MAD Biennial: NYC Makers”. Her clientele range from Anne Hathaway to G-Dragon to Lady Gaga.

Francis Chan: "How to Get to Heaven from Silicon Valley" | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google 2016年3月14日
New York Times Bestselling author Francis Chan puts perspective into what truly matters in life. Ideas from his most recent book "Crazy Love" have inspired religious and secular adherents to adopt a new outlook on what it means to make an impact.
Francis will document his own story from transforming from a celebrity in the Christian community to giving up his fame and lucrative job to serve those in San Francisco's Bayshore community. The event was hosted by go/Love, Google's private community for those who want to use their religious or humanitarian beliefs to make a positive difference.

20th Century Philosophy: W.D. Ross by Gregory B. Sadler

Innovate: Jennifer Bonner, "Close Reading of the Good Ol’ Ordinary"

source: Harvard GSD 2016年2月23日
02/23/16: A standard gable, with a camel-backed hip, combined with a rotated gable, connected by a shed, all populated with multiple dormers, and lastly, a mini-gable bump in the back is what I see. What do you see? These are a few of the terms for making a close reading of ordinary rooflines in domesticity. The close reading, otherwise known as formal analysis, is a way of looking at art and architecture’s most prestigious. The talk will present a case for the ordinary and its role in architectural production. At the close of the talk, the presenter requests that the audience make another close reading of the forms presented just moments beforehand. Close readings on close reading. Born in Alabama, Jennifer Bonner, MArch '09, is the owner of MALL and Assistant Professor at Harvard GSD. She is founder of a Guide to the Dirty South with forthcoming titles in Atlanta and New Orleans. Her research and design work has been published in various journals, including Architectural Review, Architectural Record, Wallpaper, a+t, DAMn, ART PAPERS, PLAT, and MAS Context. Bonner has exhibited at the Royal Institute of British Architects in London, National Building Museum in Washington DC, Association of Architects of Catalonia in Barcelona, WUHO Gallery in Los Angeles, HistoryMIAMI, and most recently at the Istanbul Design Biennial.

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