Kateřina Drajsajtlová: Světelný klavír v uměleckém díle Alexandera Nikolajeviče Skrjabina a Zdeňka Pešánka (2012) [Czech]
Filed under thesis | Tags: · art history, kinetism, light piano, multimedia, poetism, synaesthesia, theosophy, visual music
Bakalářská diplomová práce se zabývá světelnou kinetikou v díle A. N. Skrjabina a Z. Pešánka. Omezili jsme se na vynález světelného klavíru jako artefaktu, který se objevuje v díle obou autorů. Z širšího hlediska se v práci zabýváme stručným vývojem tohoto technologického díla. Podstatnou část práce tvoří komparace díla obou autorů – a to z technologického, uměleckého a kulturního hlediska. Srovnávali jsme užití barevných systémů, technologické možnosti, historické, kulturní a duchovní zázemí obou umělců, tedy jakým způsobem byl ovlivněn Zdeněk Pešánek ve své umělecké tvorbě dílem skladatele A.N. Skrjabina.
Bakalářská diplomová práce
Teorie interaktivních médií, Filozofická fakulta, Masarykova univerzita, Brno
Vedoucí práce: Martin Flašar
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Charles Howard Hinton: The Fourth Dimension (1904/1912); A New Era of Thought (1888)
Filed under book | Tags: · geometry, history of science, mathematics, science fiction, theosophy, time
In an 1884 article entitled “What is the Fourth Dimension?”, Hinton suggested that points moving around in three dimensions might be imagined as successive cross-sections of a static four-dimensional arrangement of lines passing through a three-dimensional plane, an idea that anticipated the notion of world lines, and of time as a fourth dimension (although Hinton did not propose this explicitly, and the article was mainly concerned with the possibility of a fourth spatial dimension), in Einstein’s theory of relativity. Hinton later introduced a system of coloured cubes by the study of which, he claimed, it was possible to learn to visualise four-dimensional space (Casting out the Self, 1904). Rumours subsequently arose that these cubes had driven more than one hopeful person insane.
Hinton created several new words to describe elements in the fourth dimension. According to OED, he first used the word tesseract in 1888 in his book “A New Era of Thought”. He also invented the words “kata” (from the Greek “down from”) and “ana” (from the Greek “up toward”) to describe the two opposing fourth-dimensional directions—the 4-D equivalents of left and right, forwards and backwards, and up and down.
Hinton’s Scientific romances, including “What is the Fourth Dimension?” and “A Plane World” were published as a series of nine pamphlets by Swan Sonnenschein & Co. during 1884–1886. In the introduction to “A Plane World”, Hinton referred to Abbott’s recent Flatland as having similar design but different intent. Abbott used the stories as “a setting wherein to place his satire and his lessons. But we wish in the first place to know the physical facts.” Hinton’s world existed on the surface of a sphere rather than a flat plane. He extended the connection to Abbott’s work with “An Episode on Flatland: Or How a Plain Folk Discovered the Third Dimension” (1907).
The Fourth Dimension
Third Edition
Published by London: George Allen & Co, 1912
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A New Era of Thought
Publisher London: Swan Sonneschen & Co, 1888
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