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digiPLAYSPACE at tiff.kids
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Possibly the Best $2.50 You’ll Ever Spend. Or so the greeter told us.
Read on to find out if it’s true…
This past weekend we unexpectedly took the kids to the TIFF Bell Lightbox for the tiff.kids International Film Festival, thanks to Hazel winning a contest in The Little Paper. In addition to seeing a movie, we also visited the companion exhibition digiPLAYSPACE – an interactive environment ‘where kids can immerse themselves in digital adventures’, as the programme ambitiously proclaims. Continue reading
Wonder and Delight
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The personal meaning of objects… the role of visualization in memory… a construct of the world created through the recognition of objects and of people. Threaded through these narratives has been an overarching theme Continue reading
Losing Parkdale
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When I heard about this Ontario Crafts Council exhibit on CBC’s Here And Now, a variety of thoughts entered my mind about the many changes that have taken place in the neighbourhood where I have lived for over seventeen years. Continue reading
Facial Recognition
If you read the post about Geons and Irving Biederman, you might have thought to yourself that visual perception must be more subtle and nuanced than the discussed Recognition by Components (RBC) theory suggests – and you’d be right. Continue reading
(The) ROM Wasn’t Built in a Day
For various reasons, it has been years since I last visited the Art Gallery of Ontario or the Royal Ontario Museum. My previous visits had been before the latest changes, although I followed both renewal projects in the media with interest. Continue reading
Steve Jobs & the Gestalt of Mac
With the tragic news of the passing of the revered, brilliant and passionate Steve Jobs I find myself reflecting on the influence of Apple on those like myself who are involved in architecture and the arts. Continue reading
Geon, But Not Forgotten
Our ability for object recognition is pretty amazing. It’s something that we take for granted, even though it is one of the most fundamental ways we gather information about the world around us. Have you ever thought about how we actually accomplish this feat? Continue reading
Object Recognition
Many years ago, my grandmother gave me the small paper cards pictured above. Each one has various views of an aircraft printed on the front, and the characteristics of that aircraft printed on the back. She told me Continue reading
The Memory Palace
If objects can take on personal meaning beyond their function or value as a commodity, it seems apparent that memory may play an important role. Why would this be so? Continue reading
