Posted in General on Jan 19th, 2008
What do you get when you combine a physics professor, a biology professor, and a comic book writer? As it turns out, a lot of laughter and a very new perspective on familiar superhero stories.
First Roger Stern, an author and comic book writer, described the history of superhero stories and comics over the 20th century, [...]
Posted in General on Jan 19th, 2008
The first program at the Statler Auditorium this morning was a humorous and engaging lecture by Cornell professor Jeffrey Hancock. He took us through the worlds of Facebook, mySpace, Internet dating, and financial fraud to show how people disclose, shape, and manipulate their identities with the help of modern technologies.
Professor Hancock brought a scientist’s perspective [...]
Posted in General on Jan 19th, 2008
Welcome to Light in Winter 2008 and another wonderful weekend of arts and science in Ithaca, NY. If you read any of last year’s blog entries, you may remember me — my name is Adrienne and I am an undergraduate student at Princeton University. But more importantly I’m a lifelong Ithacan and I almost always [...]
Posted in General on Dec 14th, 2007
Have you pretended to be someone you’re not….online? Ongoing research in the Communication Department at Cornell explores the psychological effects of creating a new identity in online environments. In the Hall of Identity, researchers will have experiments for you participate in so that you can experience these (virtual!) worlds by creating an entirely new you.
To [...]
Posted in General on Sep 26th, 2007
Among the many benefits of working in the arts is that you can do things like surf around YouTube for a couple of hours and call it “research”. While viral videos are perpetually entertaining, I do find myself repeatedly looking for videos of musicians with whom I’m familiar. Yesterday, I was browsing around [...]
Posted in General on Sep 17th, 2007
I first read A Wrinkle in Time at age 10. Runty, bespectacled and generally unsure of my place in the world, I was immediately hooked. The main character in the book was Meg Murry, and I saw a great deal of myself in this character who shared my name and my general sentiments [...]
Posted in General on Sep 13th, 2007
I’m happy to say that What Do Robots Dream Of is getting even more interesting, with the addition of Lee Bailey, author of The Enchantments of Technology, who will share the stage with Cornell Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Hod Lipson and robot music from the League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots. Lipson is [...]
Posted in General on Sep 6th, 2007
The beginning of fall has always been my favorite season; crisp, full of possibility. And these days, the time when tickets for Light in Winter go on sale. The 2008 Festival with its theme of “Identity” will be the richest yet, full of interesting and quirky takes on the theme, and more free events scattered [...]
Posted in General on May 11th, 2007
So the new program for 2008 is up, and we can’t wait till next January; though I must say the balmy weather is refreshing. But it’s so funny how one feels a proprietary interest in people we may never have met, but with whom we’ve corresponded. I know everyone who saw Light in Winter 2007 [...]
Posted in General on Feb 27th, 2007
As we continue to work on next January’s festival, I’ve been pleased to receive some great invitations to upcoming events! On Sunday, April 1 at 2 pm, in the First Baptist Church downtown, Ithaca’s Music’s Recreation will be performing “Carnival of the Subatomic Particles”, a delightful suite of music by Mark Simon and poetry [...]