Utilities, tools, patagames.
A ball flies mid-air in The Botanical Machine, an installation by Joseph Herscher presented at the 2011 Venice Biennale, a classic example of a Rube Goldberg machine whose final purpose was to water a plant after a series of ingeniously futile steps.
So-called useless …
There’s only one shape you can (and must) explore: the Gidouille.
Round. Spiral-like. Free.
A graphic and conceptual sign, the symbol of absurdity, paradox, and pataphysics.
But what exactly is a Gidouille?
Born from the imaginative world of Alfred Jarry, the gidouille is the spiral …
In the 1890s, French poet and playwright Alfred Jarry founded pataphysics, the absurdist “science of imaginary solutions,” a concept that has been nominally recognized as the precursor to Dadaism, Surrealism, and the Theater of the Absurd, among other movements. Over a century after Jarry “made the gesture of dying,” Katie …
Tracks 1 and 5 were recorded on 6 January 1951 at the studio of Mr. Gruber, boulevard Pasteur in Reims.
Arranged By – Hercule Tac, Loribusier
Bassoon – Gilles Daudin, Hélène Millet, Régis Roy, Yves Pichard
Choir [Choristes] – Agnès Violet, Alain Mignien, Alexandre Salles, Alexis Pelletier, Anne Feillet, Anne …
The Science of Imaginary Solutions by Søren Rosenbak, is now on Patakosmos’ repository.
This dissertation addresses a paradox in design: we currently live in a day and age that is fundamentally conditioned by artifice on all scales, and principled by a deep sense of contingency and possibility. In this world, …
Do you remember “Ceci n’est pas une pipe” by Magritte? Quick Draw started with a simple question – Can a neural network learn to recognize what a doodle represents? It makes an exception a rule! You draw, and a neural network tries to guess what you’re drawing. Of course, it …
QuoDB.com is a nice exception for our Patakosmos, being able to search for a word or an entire phrase at the precise point where it is said in all movies. No matter what you’re looking for, try to start with a simple search using any word of the line that …
In this section of Patakosmos you can find hundreds of specially selected videos of entire theatrical performances of Ubu, tons of resources video from pataphysicians around the world and other pataphysical material.
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In statistics, a spurious relationship or spurious correlation is a mathematical relationship in which two or more events or variables are associated but notcausally related, due to either coincidence or the presence of a certain third, unseen factor (referred to as a “common response variable”, “confounding factor”, or “lurking variable”). wikipedia
Very large databases …
