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Video calls and Internet surfing in Minecraft are now possible with a Verizon cell phone that functions inside the game. Just don’t expect high-def.
FINE ARTS TRAVELER – Karinna Gomez, the museum’s fine arts collections coordinator, is finishing up a residency at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, CO. She is one of 14 artists working in disciplines ranging from painting and sculpture to ceramics and photography. Gomez is a printmaking artist-in-residence and had been working on new etchings and mezzotints, as well as a series of collages on panel. “It has been absolutely amazing to be so immersed in the studio with no other distractions and it has also been energizing to meet and work alongside other talented artists.”
Why did you decide to go to UAF? I’m originally from the San Francisco Bay area in California and went to Northwestern University for my undergraduate degree. I studied art, lived in Iceland for a year on a Fulbright fellowship, and drove to Fairbanks in 2011 to begin the MFA program at UAF. My time in Iceland inspired an interest in continuing to live in the North, and so I decided UAF would be a good choice for grad school.
What brought you to the University of Alaska Museum of the North? At Northwestern, I worked as a curatorial and print room conservation assistant at the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art for four years. I found collections work tremendously enjoyable and have since continued to seek out museum opportunities. I began working with Fine Arts Curator Mareca Guthrie at UAMN as a grad student in 2013 and it has been a wonderful experience contributing to the various collections projects.
When did you first discover a passion for artistic expression? I suppose my interest in art comes from my mom who is also an artist working as a sculptor and printmaker. I have always drawn, but was curious to try printmaking. I was attracted to the particular marks and surfaces you can get from prints that you can’t really get from drawing directly on paper. I first made prints at Northwestern and since then it has been my preferred way of working.
How would you describe yourself now as an artist? I’m a printmaker focusing in intaglio techniques including mezzotint, a process enabling half-tones to be produced without using line or dot-based techniques. [Intaglio is a family of printmaking techniques where the image is cut into a surface which holds the ink rather than creating a relief print.] My work shows liminal spaces in exploration of darkness, sleep, and experiences of the North. Recent subjects depicted in the mezzotints include communication towers, power substations, and weather instrumentation drawn with bright, incised lines in a vast, black field. Lately I’ve also been exploring collage on panel as a way of expanding my practice to include more drawing, color, and new subjects and forms.
What has working at the museum meant to you as an artist? Working in the fine arts collection at the museum is a great compliment to my life as artist. I love the variety of tasks involved and the balance between hands-on work, such as mounting and framing art on paper or preparing objects for storage, and cerebral work like managing the collection database. Working in the collection, I continue to learn about Alaskan art and history, as well as practical skills such as exhibition installation, which informs my own artistic practice. I also feel that some of my skills as an artist prove useful in my role in the museum, adding to the feeling that each area of my life compliments the other.
You recently won an individual award from the Rasmuson Foundation. Can you tell me about that project? Receiving the Rasmuson Foundation Individual Artist Project Award was an incredible honor and I am so pleased to have support to carry out my work. I proposed traveling to Norway to begin the creation of a new series of mezzotints. Since I have spent time in Iceland and Alaska, I thought it would be interesting to explore another northern place to see how that land differs and is the same. I plan to participate in an artist residency located in the northern fishing town Kjollefjord, as well as one in the Lofoten Islands next month.
What are your immediate plans after the residency? After the residencies, I will be returning to Fairbanks to prepare the work I make for an exhibition at Well Street Art Company in April 2016. As for my future, I am most interested in continuing in the museum field particularly working in collections. My time at the Block Museum as an undergrad inspired in me an interest in museums and working at the Museum of the North has only broadened my interests and excitement to continue working in the field.
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Scientists Are Using Viruses to Improve Solar Energy Cells
Scientists are harnessing the distinct abilities of viruses to transfer energy, and they’re using quantum mechanics to do it. In a joint effort involving biologists, engineers, and quantum physicists from MIT and Italian energy company Eni, researchers have manipulated a virus into mimicking a plant cell. “A group of us who spoke different [scientific] languages worked closely together, to both make this class of organisms, and analyze the data. That’s why I’m so excited by this,” says Angela Belcher, a professor of biological engineering at MIT.
Read more at: http://futurism.com/links/scientists-are-using-viruses-to-improve-solar-energy-cells/
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Meet Surena III: University of Tehran Unveils Its New Humanoid Robot
Researchers from the University of Tehran unveiled the new generation of their humanoid robot called Surena III. The robot stands 1.9 meters tall (6.2 feet) and weighs 98 kilograms (216 lb). It is also equipped with numerous sensors that includes a Kinect-based 3D vision module, and is powered by 31 servomotors. Surena III is capable of walking up and down ramps and stairs, and along irregular surfaces up to a speed of .2m/s (about 8 inches a second).
So perhaps the robot won’t be running any marathons anytime soon, but it’s still pretty remarkable. Plus, the robot was designed for other purposes besides speed. That said, Surena hasn’t quite been able to demonstrate the level of mobility and dexterity that we see in some other robots that are currently under development; however, this rather robust Iranian humanoid has been making steady progress over the last seven years (since the first model was unveiled).
Indeed, going back to when the first version of the robot was presented, which was all the way back in 2008, the robot only had 8 degrees of freedom (DOF). Surena II, which we saw in 2010, had 22 DOF and could walk at a pace of 0.03 meters per second. Now this third generation has 31 DOF and a walking speed nearly 10 times as fast.
(via Meet Surena III: University of Tehran Unveils Its New Humanoid Robot)
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I have been pretty busy lately but I finally had some time to mess around with the reprap. Pictured is several products that I have been trying as upgrades.
My latest change makes use of a low cost metal x-carriage and an E3D Lite6. So far I am very pleased with the results though I am still in the tweaking stage for the new hot end. I find that the lite6 flows much better than other hot-ends that I have used. I have a feeling I will be using this setup for awhile.
Previous to the lite6 I purchased a clone of the e3d Cyclops. Sadly this experiment has not gone as well. I got some decent prints feeding a single filament input but never got a chance to get dual working. It would always jam and clog when I tried. It also leaked at each screw. Sealant helped. I found the heater element to not be secure even with the set screw in as far as it would go. I plan on working with this hot end more to hopefully fix these issues and get back to dual extrusion. I needed this machine back online so I opted for an authentic lite6 which seems to have a good reputation so far.
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