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IS YOUR FORMULA? YOUR EQUATION? YOUR ALGORITHM? FORMULAE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
Alun
Anderson, Scott Atran, Mahzarin R.
Banaji, Simon Baron-Cohen, Samuel
Barondes, Gregory Benford, Susan
Blackmore, Paul Bloom, Stewart Brand,
John Brockman, Rodney A. Brooks,
Sean Carroll, George Church, M.Csikszentmihalyi,
Leda Cosmides, Paul Davies, Richard
Dawkins, David Deutsch, Keith Devlin,
Chris DiBona, Freeman Dyson, George
Dyson, Drew Endy, Brian Eno, Dan
Everett, J. Doyne Farmer, Richard
Foreman, Howard Gardner, David Gelernter,
Steve Giddings, Daniel Gilbert, Marcelo
Gleiser, Alison Gopnik, Joshua Greene,
John Gottman, Jonathan Haidt, Judith
Rich Harris, Marc D. Hauser, Donald
D. Hoffman, Gerald Holton, John Horgan, Nicholas
Humphrey, Marcy Kahan, Danny Kahneman,
Dean Kamen, Kevin Kelly, Rem Koolhaas,
Bart Kosko, Kai Krause, Ray Kurzweil,
Lawrence M. Krauss, Janna Levin,
Seth Lloyd, Benoit Mandelbrot, Geoffrey
Miller, Marvin Minsky, Oliver Morton,
David Myers, PZ Myers, Tor Nørretranders,
Mark Pagel, Irene Pepperberg, Steven
Pinker, Jordan Pollack, Ernst Pöppel,
William Poundstone, Eduardo Punset,
Martin Rees, Lisa Randall, Matt Ridley,
Carlo Rovelli, Rudy Rucker, Doug
Rushkoff, Dimitar D. Sasselov, Gino
Segre, Michael Shermer, Neil Shubin,
George Smoot, Dan Sperber, Maria
Spiropulu, Linda Stone, Leonard Susskind,
Nassim Taleb, Timothy Taylor, John
Tooby, Max Tegmark, Craig Venter,
Alexander Vilenkin, Shing-Tung Yau,
Anton Zeilinger
Introduction The walls of Obrist's office were covered with single pages of size A4 paper on which artists, writers, scientists had responded to his question: "What Is Your Formula?" Among the pieces were formulas by quantum physicist David Deutsch, artist and musician Brian Eno, architect Rem Koolhaas, and fractal mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot. Within minutes we had hatched an Edge-Serpentine collaboration for a "World Question Center" project, to debut on Edge during the annual Serpentine Gallery Experiment Marathon, the weekend of October 13-14. The plan was to further the reach of Obrist's question by asking for responses from the science-minded Edge community, thus complementing the rich array of formulas already assembled by the Serpentine from distinguished artists such as Marina Abramovic, Matthew Barney, Louise Bourgeois, Gilbert & George, and Rosemarie Trockel. Edge Live in London The
Serpentine Gallery Experiment Marathon In addition to the online publication of "Formulae for the 21st Century," Edge was invited to program four hours of the twenty-four hour Serpentine Gallery Experiment Marathon. The event, which took place October 14th, was held in The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2007, commissioned by Serpentine Director Julia Peyton-Jones and designed by Olafur Eliasson and Kjetil Thorson.
The session session featured live presentations of "table-top" experiments from zoologist Seirian Sumner (A Cooperative Foraging Experiment — Lessons From Ants), archeologist Timothy Taylor (The Tradescant's Art Experiment), physiologist Simon Baron-Cohen (Do Women Have Better Empathy Than Men), biologist Amrand Leroi (The Songs of Songs), geneticist Steve Jones (Some Like It Hot), physicist Neil Turok (What Banged? and The Morning Line), biologist Lewis Wolpert (How Our Limbs Are Patterned Like The French Flag), and playwright Marcy Kahan in conversation with psychologist Steven Pinker. —JB
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