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Drawing game
Inspired by Duchamp’s ‘Three Standard Stoppages’ and other art work that used chance, in the early 60s, William Anastasi made his “unsighted” works - the Blind drawings.
These led to the Subway Drawings of 1968 and the late 70s, when he re-investigated the Subway Drawings whilst riding to and fro from his daily chess games with John Cage.
Sitting with a pencil in each hand and a drawing board on his lap, his elbows at an angle of 90 degrees, his shoulders away from the back rest, Anastasi was operating as a seismograph, allowing the rhythm of the moving train - its starts, stops and turns, accelerations and decelerations, to be transformed into lines on paper, creating an art object that expresses completely the physicality of its making.
Necker Cube
Developed in 1832 by the Swiss crystallographer Louis Necker, the Necker Cube is an optical illusion that demonstrates how the brain works on a sub-conscious level independently of thought. If you stare at the wire frame model of a cube for a while, it appears to flip its orientation between two possible interpretations of the picture. This phenomenon has served as evidence of the human brain operating as a neural network with two distinct equally possible interchangeable stable states.
POD
Emergency point-of-dispensing (POD) simulation
Developed by the University of Illinois School of Public Health and the Chicago Department of Public Health, this free online game simulates emergency "point-of-dispensing". The game is designed to train both public volunteers and staff to work efficiently and sensitively with the public to maximize care in times of crisis.
