While many will point to primitive projects by researchers at MIT and Stanford, I feel the history books will note Sirious Margaritas as the absolute point when man and machine will truly live in symbiosis.
"The details are deliberately quite primitive," says project architect John O'Mara, describing how the material junctions of brick, concrete and oak are simply expressed as "essential acts of assembly", in line with the building's archaic, primal form.
And so the analytical Positivist program might be recast in terms of the reduction of all concepts to these sensorimotor primitives, a project that is sometimes implicit in cognitive psychology and artificial intelligence.
The mid-1960s communinsurgencyency, supported by Maoist China and leading to significant conflict in the north-east of the country, is the subject of Weerasethakul's touring installation project Primitive, which grew directly out of his research for Uncle Boonmee (which is set in the same region).
Even the graphics used to illustrate "The Origin of Love" are similar: onstage, slides depicting primitive figures were projected on the wall behind the actors; in the film, a cartoon by Emily Hubley accompanies Mr. Mitchell's voiceover.
Feynman also took charge of the project's primitive computing effort, using a hybrid of new calculating machines and human workers to try to process the vast amounts of numerical computation required by the project.
"A Primitive Future," at Subliminal Projects.
To encourage them to pay close attention to their home environments, he turned rooms in apartments and houses into walk-in versions of the pinhole camera, or camera obscura — primitive, proto-photographic devices that project outdoor scenes from the street into interior spaces.
Gödel spoke with Sue Toledo between 1972 and 1975 about the project of finding primitive terms, as well as other aspects of phenomenology.
Stenop.es is an experimental visual project using a primitive technique: The Camera Obscura.
