May 28, 2011
Metaphortean Research

Artist Carl Diehl will be lecturing tonight at little berlin at 7pm.  This will be the last lecture in VASST.info’s series of lectures.  

“An official, if speculative, genealogy of Metaphortean Research to be presented at Little Berlin gallery in Philadelphia on Saturday May 28th. Arriving at the end of the current exhibit of Very Amateur Society of Science and Technology, this Metaphortean presentation will include several nused and emergent Metaphortean pursuits, including the audio-visually augmented para-lecture version of Polterzeitgest.”


2:30pm  |   URL: http://vasst.info/post/5937166995/metaphortean-research
May 28, 2011
Art Science’s Sake

Artists Angela McQuillan and April Aguillard’s science project for VASST.info. Read and listen to the full interview with Peter Crimmins and Carolyn Beeler on newsworks.org

2:26pm  |   URL: http://vasst.info/post/5937041756/art-sciences-sake
May 25, 2011
Ron Klein Lecture/CANCELLED

Terribly sorry folks, he’ll be in NYC.

9:49am  |   URL: http://vasst.info/post/5832630333/ron-klein-lecture-cancelled
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May 20, 2011
VASST.info/lectures/Bioethics

VASST.info lecture series that asks scientists to lecture on a related topic to an artist’s science project. In this lecture Camille McQuillan gives a lecture on bioethics related to April Aguillard & Angela McQuillan’s study of zebrafish. (ran out of battery at the last ten minutes where we began the conversation of genetically manipulating human embryos…shoulda been there!)

VASST.info/lectures/Bioethics from little berlin on Vimeo.

3:56pm  |   URL: http://vasst.info/post/5673634153/vasst-info-lectures-bioethics
April 28, 2011
Gravitational Pull

“The singularity and the stellar matter locked up in it are hidden by the holes horizon. However long you may wait, the locked up matter can never reemerge. The holes gravity prevents it. Nor can the locked up matter ever send you information, not by radio waves, or light, or X-rays. For all practical purposes, it is completely gone from our universe.”

-excerpt from Kip Thorne’s Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein’s Outrageous Legacy

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11:07am  |   URL: http://vasst.info/post/5013089328/gravitational-pull
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April 20, 2011
From Inside

“Actually, what you would see, given that you are able to withstand the tidal gravitational effects, would be that the entire universe being bent into a small cone in front of you looking away from the BH. Will have to find the exact reference for this, but it is in Black Holes and Time Warps by Kip Thorne.”

This is a quote taken from Chris Hardee from an on-line forum concerned with astronomy and cosmology.  I found this when I googled:  “how to create black hole lensing effect.”  I have been struggling to simulate the effect that is said to occur around the outside of a black hole.  the light that isn’t sucked in, is distorted at its’ perimeter, and looks something like this:

Unfortunately, I have not succeeded in imitating this effect and have since decided to attempt to create the conical view of the universe opposite the black hole.  Turns out that not only can you read Thorne’s book “Black Holes and Time Warps” on-line, but that it is a great read and has amazing images.

10:37am  |   URL: http://vasst.info/post/4776956897/from-inside
April 18, 2011
This is an investigation of the usefulness of urban plants, based on recent knowledge of edible wild plants, and a long vested interest in the natural world.  I gathered plants from around the city, testing their dye, food, and fermentation capabilities, boiling them, and burning them. I found some unnatural objects along the way and could not help using them.

This is an investigation of the usefulness of urban plants, based on recent knowledge of edible wild plants, and a long vested interest in the natural world.  I gathered plants from around the city, testing their dye, food, and fermentation capabilities, boiling them, and burning them. I found some unnatural objects along the way and could not help using them.

7:56pm  |   URL: http://vasst.info/post/4731773933/this-is-an-investigation-of-the-usefulness-of
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