DXARTS 490

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DXARTS 490

• Form Fabrication Material Poetics in
  Experimental Media

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Building a Better Mind Trap
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Energy Transfer Movement of energy from one
place to another or from one substance to
another, or the conversion of energy from one
form to another. Potential chemical (e.g.
fuel oxygen) kinetic (in a moving object)
gravitational (due to the position of an object
in a gravitational field) elastic (e.g. in a
stretched or compressed spring) thermal (in a
warm object) magnetic (in two separated magnets
that are attracting, or repelling)
electrostatic (in two separated electric charges
that are attracting, or repelling) nuclear
(released through radioactive decay, fission or
fusion)
Transference mechanically (when a force moves
through a distance) electrically (when a charge
moves through a potential difference) by
heating (because of a temperature difference)
by radiation (e.g. light, microwaves, sound)
Meanings illustration (directly, of an idea)
emulation (of a state of another) by
association (inference) by metaphor (poetic
relation)
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Determinism
We may regard the present state of the universe
as the effect of its past and the cause of its
future. An intellect which at a certain moment
would know all forces that set nature in motion,
and all positions of all items of which nature is
composed, if this intellect were also vast enough
to submit these data to analysis, it would
embrace in a single formula the movements of the
greatest bodies of the universe and those of the
tiniest atom for such an intellect nothing would
be uncertain and the future just like the past
would be present before its eyes. Pierre-Simon
Laplace (1814)
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Rube Goldberg, cartoonist engineer
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Tranference in an existing system? Building
water drainage systems in Dresden, (left) and
Seattle (below)
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Traps or trite?
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Homework

• "Build a Better Mind Trap
• Collaborate to develop an energy-transfer device
  that embodies a "captivating" metaphor.
• Duration Two minutes
• Materials Any
• Collaborative Yes, in teams of two
• Completion Cycle 7 days
• All chemical, nuclear, or other potentially
  dangerous components
• must be approved by instructor before use!