Stanford neuroscientists host the world’s first love competition, asking contestants between the ages of 10 and 75 to spend 5 minutes in an fMRI machine thinking deeply about the person they love. The results are certain to bring a tear to your eye.
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“Using pure data as a source for sound and visuals, datamatics combines abstract and mimetic presentations of matter, time and space in a powerful and breathtakingly accomplished work. Ikeda employs real–time programme computations and data scanning to create an extended new sequence that is a further abstraction of the original work.” [more]
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Ryoji Ikeda, Datamatics [prototype-ver.2.0], 2006-2008
