Interdisciplinary Videos

We measure our economies in terms of trade, production and services - but one vital component is missing: the environment. Pavan Sukhdev is the study leader for a UN-run program on the economics of ecosystems and biodiversity, and he wants to see these resources accounted for. Kerri Smith talks to him.

19 November: Why paleontologists should predict instead of just describe, how to factor environmental goods into the economy, the cultural context of Darwin's theories and a round-up of other highlights from Nature.

12 November: How a language gene behaves in humans and chimps, determining orbiting planets from a star's lithium levels, the run up to the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen, and a round-up of what's hot elsewhere in Nature.

5 November: Scientists take a closer look at a star first spotted in 1680, how unrelated animals lend a helping hand, a 'Pleistocene Park' in the Netherlands, and a round-up of what's hot elsewhere in Nature.

29 October: A new type of communication between brain cells is confirmed, a theory about how the Earth became watery, questioning whether the speed of light is constant, and a round-up of what's hot elsewhere in Nature.

22 October: The effects of sleep deprivation on memory, 250 years of London's Kew Gardens, watching evolution in the lab, and climate change in the Himalayas.

15 October: Video game-playing mice, illiterate Columbian guerrillas, a magnet with only one pole, Nobel Prize-winner Elizabeth Blackburn, and in the news - a CERN scientist is charged with being a terrorist.

1 October: Sex chromosome evolution in stickleback and humans, cheat-resisting amoebae, and how powerful earthquakes may influence the strength of far-away faults.

A look at Hamline University Master of Liberal Studies degree program.

24 September: Planetary boundaries that are not to be crossed, early humans and carbon dioxide levels, India's genetic diversity, the genomes behind an epidemic.

17 September: Gene therapy to correct colour blindness, droplets behaving weirdly, how warm temperatures in the past affected Greenland, and the evolution of sex chromosomes and live birth.

13th chapter of DOD: The Death of Depth, an early 2005 video exploration of Limited Fork Poetics (as Limited Fork Theory was then known, and had been known since LFT's birth in October 2004). This video book has been reconfigured from files and file fragments salvaged from a failed external hard drive (650GB of 800GB existing, as of this writing, as unreadable information). The Death of Depth was an outcome of the birth of forkergirl's understanding of the usual location of her (and, therefore, her/the fork's) interactions: on the surface, at the entrance to the interaction; depth continuously reconfigured as the yet-to-explore, the to-be-connected-with; for when something is cut into, the cutter and the interaction tend to be relocated to a surface that emerges; what is exposed by cut or entry becomes available for consideration, itself a form of interaction. The surface is suitable for study. DIG IN with a limited fork; explore what can happen when stuff is brought together. Use the fork entirely in imagination if you like, so that what might not be possible in the 3D space of the body can occur in the less-restricted dimensionality of thought. Whatever occurs, wherever it occurs, however it occurs is possible within parameters of possibility for conditions involved or that event would not occur. What is not possible, under a set of conditions, does not happen. Occurrence collaborates well with possibility. and so Chapter 13: the irregular composition of smooth occurs, that irregularity giving up wonderful intricate details and specifics, as scale is amplified. Endless coastlines emerge as the increment of measure becomes increasingly smaller. These shifting, flexible, temporary configurations of anything are expressed as the magnificent origami of existence in chapter 13 of an LFT video book whose form was/is an outcome of opening a door that was a limited fork that unfolded in the mind of forkergirl who was born along with Limited Fork Theory (nee Limited Fork Poetics) in October, 2004. The video book DOD explores implications of reconfiguring poetry as a dynamic system as these understandings were unfolding as of spring 2005. Identifying systems of reconfiguration that Limited Fork Theory enables is itself an ongoing system that sponsored the growth of the Limited Fork from a tool that reframes possibilities of poetry to a more generalized tool that can reframe perceptual encounters (including encounters with poetry) in, the fork will try, any situation. LFT studies interacting systems (such as visual. sonic, olfactory, tactile, cognitive, imagined systems/subsystems on any scale[s] in any location[s] for any duration[s] of time). As a consequence of its flexible framing of inquiry, Limited Fork Theory necessarily studies how things converge, how stuff connects, where stuff connects, why stuff connects, understanding that the active nature of interacting suggests that any particular interaction is likely temporary and/or that the substance of the configuration may reside inside flexible or shifting perceptual spaces instead of fixed location[s]. A further consequence of the nature of the tool is an acknowledgment of interconnectedness of all that exists, so there direct and indirect paths (systems of paths) from any entity or entities to any other unit or units of existence. LFT assumes connection, and in that assumption, makes a connection. Because everything is already connected, integrative and interdisciplinary approaches are built-in; links need activation instead of creation. Though the fork is a tool to bring stuff together, its also a tool unable to access all of anything because of holes between the tines or prongs, holes that assist with escape, and loss, and help foil definitive assessments. The tool can't grasp everything it tries to access. Distance between tines is variable. Substance of tines is variable. Influence of tines on what tines manage to pick up, and influence of what is picked up with tines is variable. Shape of tines is variable. Use of the tool configures it, and the tool is/may be reconfigured as outcomes of use (which is also interaction) —so liberating and so much fun to use a fork that admits there are gaps in information! Features early music from the founder of Strexx Quantum Orchestra.

Here David adds the third layer in our round robin collaboration to make the first work for The PARTY PROJECT. From here we go to the studio to turn this collaboration into a performance. Check out our website for more details. http://seenperformance.org Follow our blog to learn what happens in the studio + in performance! http://seenperformance.org/blog

Here Shana contributes the second part (version B) of our round robin collaboration through which we're creating the first work for The PARTY PROJECT.Check out our website for more details. http://seenperformance.org

Here Shana contributes the second part of our round robin collaboration through which we're creating the first work for The PARTY PROJECT Check out our website for more details. http://seenperformance.org

SYNCOPATIONS. 1987. Film & Performance by Kathy Rose. Sound-C.P.Roth. Live action film of seven dancers is integrated with the solo performer creating an almost holographic effect. The film imagery in this seven scene work is projected on the human body giving a sculptural impact. www.krose.com

ORIENTAL INTERPLAY. 1991. Film & Performance by Kathy Rose. A fashion haiku in which projected animated imagery of hats, dresses and shapes drip and slide on the performers, creating living costumes. www.krose.com