Artificial Super Intelligence

Source: Journey through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics by William DunhamEdition: Paperback Price: $10.88 Availability: In Stock My comments: I read this book in Korean, which I rent from the city library. When I read for the first, I thought that this book is somehow difficult since he includes many geographical figures but finally, I realized that this book is easy to read and to understand. By reading this book I had a great pleasure to me, in contrast to general mathematical books. As you said, he has great enthusiasm on Euclid geographic which have taught my mind up to now.

I am a sort of Jazz fan. So to speak, I am interested in traditional Jazz played earlier than 'Bitches Brew' of Miles David. My favorate is Lester young who was called as 'Prez'(derives from president of Jazz) in 1930s through 1950s. Days ago, I stopped by a CD shop to buy one of his masterpieces. However, He seemed to be so old-fashioned that his booth disapeared. People don't know how beautiful classical Jazz is! His blowing is romantic and elegant so as to captivate us. I compared his playing with Coleman Hawkins who was the most popular saxophonist in 1930s, at the same time, remained the legend even now. Lester young's tone is relaxed, cool and quitely soft while Coleman hawkins is full of being masculine and powerful in his atmosphere. On listening Young's playing, I was fascinated with his music. His album changed my fixed idea over timber of tenor saxophone. It sounded a poem or an ode. I could imagine that I was under the sunny side when I listened ...

This year, the Lee sang short story Award fell on Yeuseun Guen who wrote ' I believe in Love'. We can also taste other's short stories through 'representative works of the Lee sang Literature award' which was made to be in memory of Lee Sang since 1971. This omnibus book has Korean readers paid attention to its laureats and candidates every new year. Yeuseun Guen who was born in 1965, belongs to 386 generation, lost her beloved friend in the vortex of political resistance 1n 1980s have shown the very meaningful writing recently. The recipient's style was regarded as being cynical, sharp and violent, in spite of having polite access to her object. She disguised not to be interested in everything. She steals a walk on an observed person and let us hear bitten and sour stories. I guess she believes in love. Her characters in this story are seemingly doubtful of desirable humane relationship. We usually go against with each other, even if there are lots...

I went Insa-Dong yesterday to look around the photo galleries. These days, we have an exbibition called 'Wake Up' hosted by Kimyoungseup Gallery. And also Gallery Lux, Gallery Now were following Kim youngseup the most renowned photo gallery. In fact, Photograph was considered as applied or secondary one, not a serious field of fine art even years ago. Of course, there are great photographers such as Andres Serrano, Euge'ne Atget, Ansel Adams, Bill Brandt, Gyula halasz Brassai, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Eanst Hssa and so on who dedicated themselves to the considerable and insightful photo art history. By virtue of their devotion to this realm, we think of photo as a big part of fine art. Futher more, even conventional artists have expanded their domains into being more adventurous and experimental, with have photo, fabric or any other objet put in their frames. Technics and Phenomenon which painting invades the territory of photo and vice versa are not strange to u...

Let me think about my favorite. One of them is 'China town' directed by Roman Polanski in 1974. Faye Dunaway and Jack Nicholson were starring in this movie. I watched this again in 10 year. Its story seemed to be gloomy as well. Jerry Goldstein's music also made me dreary over the film. I didn't want to encounter this again. However I was drawn by it automatically as some metal would access to magnet. Faye Dunaway went back her hay day when she functioned as 'Femme fatale' apart from her recent movie 'Bar fly' that let me stunned. We can guess Roman Polanski must have been pessimistic when he took this moving picture which was made just after his wife's death murdered by Charles Manson the false religious leader. If everything had been fine around Polanski, This movie might have had a less desolate or dismal end. But it was in the mid-1970s when America was about to consider the military withdrawal and had no choice but to accept of the defeat from s...

Fluxus means the flow, continuous change, move in Latin. It is a international Avant-garde art movement which extended over 1960-1970. George Maciunas created the term 'Fluxus' as the tiltle of magazine in 1962 for the purpose to acknowledge the trend refusing the traditional art form or style. Fluxus tried to be apart from the art market, mechanical style or physical aggregation. Instead, it is more psychological and liberal art group, pursuing bohemian freedom than working together for a same target. It was not a systemic organization but a sort of timely remarks for individual or outsider. It started in German and spreaded to Japan, other European countries and America. This movement caused the interchange without border and genre. Conseqently, this groups started to form various art styles and affected to genres such as concertos, events, publications and so on later. However, generally, this was a genre-free, country-free movement and tried to develop more ideal and bigger...

Even ten years ago, I had considered Jim Jarmusch & Murakami Haruki as being eternal young men. Recently, I came to take a look at their latest pictures. And they are not any more fresh in their appearance and of course not in their works. The name of Murakami Haruki itself has meant me youth, emptiness, nihility, vacancy since the late of 1980s. He swept the Korean reading public as well as Japanese readers. When I read his book 'Norwegian wood' 1n 1988, I also decided to be his fan forever. He had insightful and heeling ability to soothe forlorn young men who were embarrassed with new world where was about to start to be called post modernism or post industrial society. All of a sudden, How strange and unfamiliar our world looked. He had been a representative of all the wandering soul. Whenever his books were translated into Korean version, I was willing to be a busy reader. Until now, I like his book 'Hardboiled wonderland and the end of the world' which has real...

Do you know about Jeff Koons? He is famous for showing 'Kitsch art' to the viewer since 1990s. These days, his works are paid attention by collectors and critics over the world. In spite of some of his works being really dirty and filthy, Jeff Koons is considered as reliable artist in art price or quality among living contemporary artists. Today, I want to say a serial photos called 'Made in heaven' which is acknowledged as, in fact, pornography. I wonder whether or not this set of photos belongs to fine art like Mattew Barney who are dealing with similar themes. Because these series are surprisingly so obscene and nasty that we doubt our eyes in front of them how and why he took pictures. These photos would be displayed or shown under the note saying 'Adults Only' even in galleries or auctions. Two models are an artist himself and his ex-wife Cicciolina who was a porno star and Italian congress member. I will show their works below. Fantastic! Now they divorced...

The tradition of Korean art gallery is very short and shallow, let alone auction. It is known that the beginning of gallery started from 1900 in Seoul. However, it is true the gallery under the modern meaning opened after 1960s in Korea. Even though the history is somewhat poor compared with western part, we can't ignore the right function of the gallery : the exhibition, the sale of art works, the support for artists, the education for viewers and the like. The association of galleries must have been proud of its dedication to Korean art market and art level. It have connected collectors to artists and tried to show the high standard to the public. Above all, it had no an enemy or a rival to compete with for a long time. At last it had a competitor : Art auction. Seoul auction appeared in 1998 and K-auction in 2005. Since then, galleries tended to lose its place as a main post of its field while auctions became healthy and obese. Instead, the auction started to encroach on the te...

Now, we welcome the boom of Korean art market. Differently from the past, many people are concerned with buying art works or art itself. We attribute the skyrocketing of interest mainly to art auction. In spite of side effect of an excessive heat in the market, we can't deny people started to pay attention to art by virtue of the auction. Given that some think of art just as an object of investment or speculation, this overheated phenomenon of the market is interesting no longer. However, at the same time we can't not but accept its right function: The audience focus on art at any rate. We have never had the time before which art was considered as one of big issue in our society. Every day painters are introduced in newspapers and broadcasting news. Some of them are regarded as great stars and their works change new records in price. We just had only one-Seoul Auction- even before 2005 when K- Auction started its industry from. And this year we came to have more auctions such...