April 13th, 2008 · Comments Off

Martijn Hendriks, Give Us Today Our Daily Terror. Still. (2008 - ongoing).
Martijn Hendriks, Give Us Today Our Daily Terror:
“Exact copy of Hitchcock’s 1963 film The Birds from which all birds have been removed. Single channel video, color, 119 minutes.”
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October 11th, 2007 · Comments Off

“If you watch a flock of starlings under attack by a predator, they split, merge, and do all these incredible maneuvers to confuse the predator. How can they keep cohesion in the face of that strong perturbation—the attack?”
Physics Today, Statistical physics is for the birds
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