Into the White: Larry Eigner’s Meta-Physical Poetics

Larry Fisher: our Sherpa into the mountains of data

Lawrence Fisher’s vita lists 18 ‘‘Refereed Journal Articles’’ over the period from 1959 to 1992. It also lists five books, eight chapters in books, and, in a rather dramatic understatement, three ‘‘Large Data Bases.’’ But what data bases there are. The CRSP Treasury Securities files and the CRSP monthly Master and Returns files are far more than simple compilations of some security prices. They...

Larry.

Larry Abbott

Larry Abbott Columbia University Larry Abbott is the William Bloor Professor of Theoretical Neuroscience at Columbia University. He received his PhD in physics from Brandeis University in 1977 and worked in theoretical particle physics at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, at CERN (the European center for particle physics), and as a physics faculty member at Brandeis. Abbott began a transi...

The poetics of babytalk.

Caretaker-infant attachment is a complex but well-recognized adaptation in humans. An early instance of (or precursor to) attachment behavior is the dyadic interaction between adults and infants of 6 to 24 weeks, commonly called "babytalk." Detailed analysis of 1 minute of spontaneous babytalk with an 8-week infant shows that the poetic texture of the mother's speech-specifically its use of met...

Recombinant Poetics:

This research derives from a survey of primary and secondary literature and my practice as a professional artist using electronic information delivery systems. The research has informed the creation of an interactive art work, authored so that emergent meaning can be examined and explored within a specific generative virtual environment by a variety of participants. It addresses a series of que...