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Analogies is a book of visual correspondence between photographer Kate Joyce and graphics software engineer Gordon Cameron. Early in their friendship they left words behind and spontaneously began communicating through pictures and visual rhyme. A practice not uncommon today, although over the course of their five-year exchange they discovered through photography that the complex and fundamental domain of analogy-creation appears vital and endless. How does humor, a puzzle, communication, vision, or a friendship work? The project asks how human minds make connections and challenges the idea that artificial intelligence could do the same. Concept and design by Kate Joyce. With a foreword by Melanie Mitchell, Davis Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. Where desired, necessary, and appropriate photographs are oriented and identified in the indexes included at the back of the book. In an analogy, we recognize that two things are, in essence, the same, even if they are superficially quite different. Making analogies is, in the words of the psychologist Robert French, a recognition of the “subtlety of sameness.”—Melanie Mitchell Cameron and Joyce created a succession of hundreds of analogies through thousands of photographs since 2016. Included in this edition is a large and representative selection of the whole. About KATE JOYCE Kate Joyce is a photographer working in typologies, the relationship between pictures and literature, and collaboration. She is interested in processes of transformation, metaphysics, and analogy-making. She is based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Other books include Metamorphoses (Special Problems Press 2021) and Big Ears Knoxville (Hat and Beard Press, 2019). About GORDON CAMERON Gordon Cameron works at Epic Games. Before that he was a software engineer/TD with Pixar Animation Studios, developing tools and technology used by animators on films such as "Finding Nemo", "The Incredibles", "Ratatouille", "Cars" and "Wall-E". Cameron grew up in the North-East of Scotland, graduated from Aberdeen University, worked in the fields of robot vision, parallel programming, and scientific visualization with the University of Edinburgh & EPCC, edited SIGGRAPHs magazine, and worked on animation software as a tech lead at Softimage. Cameron joined Pixar and moved to Berkeley in 2002. About MELANIE MITCHELL Melanie Mitchell is the Davis Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. Her current research focuses on conceptual abstraction, analogy-making, and visual recognition in artificial intelligence systems.Melanie is the author or editor of six books and numerous scholarly papers in the fields of artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and complex systems. Her book Complexity: A Guided Tour (Oxford University Press) won the 2010 Phi Beta Kappa Science Book Award and was named by Amazon.com as one of the ten best science books of 2009. Her latest book is Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux). Melanie originated the Santa Fe Institute's Complexity Explorer platform, which offers online courses and other educational resources related to the field of complex systems. Her online course "Introduction to Complexity" has been taken by over 25,000 students, and is one of Course Central's "top fifty online courses of all time".
ASIN: 1737562804
VSKU: PKV.1737562804.G
Condition: Good
Author/Artist:Joyce, Kate|Cameron, Gordon|Mitchell, Melanie
Binding: Paperback