I started a new painting on the chapter “Burning and Unburning” by Elizabeth A. R. Brown in the book People in Groups, edited by Richard Trexler (1985). If you had a group of three dinosaurs, how would you call them?
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Toward Singularity: A Class on Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, and History
I gave a class today in my online Digital History course on the connection between neuroscience, AI, and history. My initial plan was to deliver it as the last class on Apr 10, to summarize the course while raising questions about the future of historical research considering the rise of AI. I also wanted toContinue reading “Toward Singularity: A Class on Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, and History”
A Visual Multi-Choice Question in an Online Quiz
I recently gave my students, in the course Digital History (U of T), an online quiz that includes ten multiple-choice questions. One of the questions is about a video game titled Tag Attack, which was submitted by Antonio to the British Library Labs Crowdsourcing Game Jam. This project took place in 2015 utilizing gamingContinue reading “A Visual Multi-Choice Question in an Online Quiz”
Using Visuals in a Course Syllabus
During the academic winter break, I’ve been developing the course Digital History, which takes place in the upcoming term at the Department of History at the University of Toronto. Mostly, I prepared the syllabus, which includes the description and structure of the course, learning outcomes, assignments, marking scheme, assigned readings, schedule of guest talks, asContinue reading “Using Visuals in a Course Syllabus”
Artist in Residence Magnet
Noa Yaari, Artist in Residence Magnet, 2022. Print on magnet, 2.75” diameter. Toronto. The opening reception of my art project “Artist in Residence” took place on Thursday, Oct 20, at the Centre for Jewish Studies, York University. In it, I gave everyone a signed magnet as a gift. Currently, I have more than 300 magnetsContinue reading “Artist in Residence Magnet”
“Artist in Residence” – Opening Reception of Noa Yaari’s Exhibition
Date: Thursday, October 20, 2022 Time: 4 pm In-person: The Centre for Jewish Studies, 7th floor of the Kaneff Tower on the Keele campus, York University “Artist in Residence” is an art project Yaari created at home for the Centre for Jewish Studies when the campus was closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It isContinue reading ““Artist in Residence” – Opening Reception of Noa Yaari’s Exhibition”
Why do artists create art? And what circumstances influence their work?
Art historian Michael Baxandall suggested seeing art as a solution to a problem, where necessities of different kinds “charge” the urge to create it. Accordingly, he saw art historians’ role as giving an account of the factors which brought forth and shaped the finished artwork. I painted on pages 30-31 in Jan von Bonsdorff’s articleContinue reading “Why do artists create art? And what circumstances influence their work? “
On Children
Several weeks ago, I started the process of adopting a child through the Public Adoption in Ontario. I’m also reading Chicken Soup for the Soul by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen (1993) these days. In it, they print Kahlil Gibran’s On Children from the book The Prophet (1923), but they titled it On Parenting. At any rate, I’mContinue reading “On Children”
On the Advantage of Being an All-rounded Emoji
In Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill writes “The man who has been active on campus, whose personality is such that he gets along with all kinds of people and who has done an adequate job with his studies has a most decided edge over the strictly academic student. Some of these, because of theirContinue reading “On the Advantage of Being an All-rounded Emoji”
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