Cambridge University, in common with many other leading colleges and universities, has set up its own channel on YouTube designed to showcase some of the research, discoveries and innovations that take place at the University. As you’d expect from an institution encompassing 31 colleges and over 150 departments, the range of subjects covered stretches from the arts and humanities to entropy and mathematics
http://www.youtube.com/user/CambridgeUniversity
Gavin Turk
New from TateShots. Gavin Turk has long been interested in issues of authorship and identity; his artworks include images of himself disguised as Sid Vicious, Che Guevara and Andy Warhol amongst others
http://channel.tate.org.uk/media/1486062077001
Body Pods
Discover the strange and surprising human body in Body Pods, a series of 12 podcasts by artists and scientists, each one exploring a different part of your body.
The Ear is the first in the serie. Artists to follow include Francesca Beard, Amanda Boyle, Stacy Makishi, David Rosenberg, and Richard Thomas.
http://fueltheatre.com/projects/body-pods
Isaac Newton's Papers
Isaac Newton’s own annotated copies of his works, notebooks and manuscripts are being made available online by Cambridge University Library and the University of Sussex. Researchers, students and the public can now zoom in to each page to explore texts like Principia Mathematica in incredible detail and make use of transcriptions to understand Newton’s mind – and handwriting. Several of the manuscripts in the collection contain the handwritten line ‘not fit to be printed’, scrawled by Thomas Pellet, a Fellow of the Royal Society, who went through Newton’s papers after his death to decide which ones should be published.
http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/
Fluxus Reader
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of Fluxus—the international laboratory of art, architecture, design and music—Swinburne University of Technology has released a free digital copy of The Fluxus Reader.
Fluxus began in the 1950s as a loose, international community of artists, architects, composers and designers. By the 1960s, Fluxus had become a laboratory of ideas and an arena for artistic experimentation in Europe, Asia and the United States. Described as 'the most radical and experimental art movement of the 1960s', Fluxus has challenged conventional thinking on art and culture for half a century. Fluxus artists had a central role in the birth of such key contemporary art forms as concept art, installation, performance art, intermedia and video. Despite this influence, the scope and scale of this unique phenomenon have made it difficult to explain Fluxus in normative historical and critical terms.
In The Fluxus Reader, editor Ken Friedman offers the first comprehensive overview of this challenging and controversial group. The Fluxus Reader is written by leading scholars and experts from Europe, the United States and Australia.
http://researchbank.swinburne.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/swin:9624
