This article analyses the development of Conceptual Art in Bratislava during communist period, with specific emphasis on practices produced throughout so-called ‘Normalisation’ (1968–1989). The text starts by introducing functioning mechanisms Czechoslovakian artistic scene time. It then moves to analyse work Július Koller, Rudolf Sikora and Ĺubomír Ďurček. is argued that, despite difficult con...

1 Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States, 3 Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States, Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State Univer...

∗Intelligent Systems Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) Tsukuba Central 2, 1-1-1 Umezono, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki 305-8568, Japan E-mail: [email protected] ∗∗Technologic Arts Inc., Cosmos-Hongo 9F, 4-1-4 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan ∗∗∗System Engineering Consultants Co., Ltd., Setagaya Business Square, 4-10-1 Yoga, Setagaya-ku, To...

LEE SMOLIN, a theoretical physicist, is concerned with quantum gravity,"the name we give to the theory that unifies all the physics now under construction." More specifically, he is a co-inventor of an approach called loop quantum gravity. In 2001, he became a founding member and research physicist of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, in Waterloo, Ontario. Smolin is the author of...

A critical discussion is presented on the use of self-replicating program systems as tools for the formulation of generalised theories of evolution. Results generated by such systems must be treated with caution, but, if used properly, they can ooer us unprecedented opportunities for empirical , comparative studies. A new system called Cosmos is introduced, which is based upon Ray's Tierra 15]....

Alejandro Corichi 2, ∗ and Asieh Karami 1, † Centro de Ciencias Matemáticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM-Campus Morelia, A. Postal 61-3, Morelia, Michoacán 58090, Mexico Center for Fundamental Theory, Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos, Pennsylvania State University, University Park PA 16802, USA Instituto de F́ısica y Matemáticas, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de...

We compare galaxy number counts in Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) fields containing moderate-redshift (0.2 < z < 1.0) strong gravitational lenses with those in two comparison samples: (1) the first square degree of the COSMOS survey, comprising 259 ACS fields and (2) 20 “pure parallel” fields randomly located on the sky. Through a Bayesian analysis we determine the expectation values (μ0) an...