===== Manus Et Machina =====

<del>Engineering Design Studio (A5, 015)</del> NYUAD Art Gallery\\
Tuesday, September 25, 2018, 11:50 am – 13:05 am

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=== Prelude ===

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Mind Hacks\\
By Tom Stafford, Matt Webb\\
Publisher : O'Reilly\\
Pub Date : November 2004\\
ISBN : 0-596-00779-5\\
Pages : 394\\

PDF available via NYU Classes.


=== Case-study Presentations ===

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|06|The //Gestalt// Principles  |[[:mm18_sep-25-18|TUE, Sep-25]]  |Tala  |
|07|The Zoetrope  |[[:mm18_sep-25-18|TUE, Sep-25]]  |Will  |

  * Sony Bravia Motion flow TV's promotion. A [[https://vimeo.com/3349656|Zoetrope]] that was verified by Guinness World Records Book as the largest zoetrope.
  * Disney's Zoetrope (=> [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8hN01P0E6E|youtube]])
  * … and another example
  * Hack 12. Build Your Own Sensory Homunculus ⇒ Run the [[http://www.sis.uta.fi/~csjaha/homunculus.html|java applet]] and explain what you see. Class experiment: Let's do Hack 12

=== Discussion ===

  * What do you think about ways of manipulating ourselves or others using a //mind hack//?
  * How can technology give our lives a greater meaning? What do you think?
  * What do you think about the future in the context of //Mankind and Technology//?