Ebooks don’t spell the end of literature
E-readers pose no threat to books — quite the opposite, they may just re-kindle a generation’s love for the written word
The other day I was on a train, reading a book. The young woman seated next to me was also reading a book. We were both enjoying classics of English literature — hers was a Charlotte Brontë novel. The only difference was that my book was made of paper, and hers of light on the screen of an e-reader.
Books are changing; but are the fundamentals of reading and writing? Seeing a reader gripped by digital Brontë made me aware that electronic books are giving literacy a new dimension. Many people like this new way of enjoying a book, and some may prefer it. Look at it this way: since the 1960s when transistor radios and — by the end of the decade — colour televisions transformed popular culture, every new technological advance has strengthened the appeal of the sort of media that rivals the book. Music and film, TV and video games: all have outshone books in technological glamour. Now, suddenly, here is a technological way to read a book. It’s kind of cool.
I don’t believe this technology will destroy the printed object; real books will never lose their charm. But people who see today’s new ways of reading as a threat are fantasising. Literacy has been under attack for decades, from all directions. Reading suffered its worst assault, perhaps, from television. My grandmother used to read all the time — in fact she was the village librarian — but you wouldn’t find many people in that same village today with the TV off, their heads in books. It is therefore surely arguable that e-readers are not the destroyers but the saviours of the book. A generation may return to the written word because of this technology.
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In the excerpt “Music and film, TV and video games: all have outshone books in technological glamour.”, the main verb contains a prefix.
Artist uses DNA to recreate live replica of van Gogh’s ear
Many know Vincent van Gogh as a brilliant impressionist painter, whose many works are displayed in museums across the world. Van Gogh has also come to embody the quintessential tortured creative genius — notorious for cutting off his left ear in a fit of madness in 1888.
A different museum exhibition showcases the anguished creativity of van Gogh in a far more unusual way: currently a recreation of van Gogh’s left ear is on display at The Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Artist Diemut Strebe used cells from the great-great grandson of van Gogh’s brother, Theo, and other DNA to construct a living replica of the ear. The ear was created using a 3D-printer and was grown in Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, she explains. It is currently being kept alive inside a case full of nourishing fluids, according to the Associated Press, and could “theoretically last for years.”
Vincent van Gogh’s descendant, Lieuwe van Gogh, was readily interested in the project. Also an artist, he was intrigued by the project, and willingly donated a tissue sample (cartilage) taken from behind his ear. “He liked the idea right away, so it wasn’t hard to convince him,” said Strebe. Lieuwe shares a sixteenth of Vincent’s DNA, including the Y chromosome passed down through the male line.
The project, which is a combination of science and art, is part of the work “Sugababe,” and was first presented on May 30. As part of the exhibit, viewers can speak to the ear through a microphone. Once the sound moves through the solution of nutrients and hits the ear’s artificial nerves, the words change and the sound — as the ear hears it — is then produced in an audio installation.
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Convincing van Gogh’s descendant to donate material for the project was easy.
Artist uses DNA to recreate live replica of van Gogh’s ear
Many know Vincent van Gogh as a brilliant impressionist painter, whose many works are displayed in museums across the world. Van Gogh has also come to embody the quintessential tortured creative genius — notorious for cutting off his left ear in a fit of madness in 1888.
A different museum exhibition showcases the anguished creativity of van Gogh in a far more unusual way: currently a recreation of van Gogh’s left ear is on display at The Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Artist Diemut Strebe used cells from the great-great grandson of van Gogh’s brother, Theo, and other DNA to construct a living replica of the ear. The ear was created using a 3D-printer and was grown in Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, she explains. It is currently being kept alive inside a case full of nourishing fluids, according to the Associated Press, and could “theoretically last for years.”
Vincent van Gogh’s descendant, Lieuwe van Gogh, was readily interested in the project. Also an artist, he was intrigued by the project, and willingly donated a tissue sample (cartilage) taken from behind his ear. “He liked the idea right away, so it wasn’t hard to convince him,” said Strebe. Lieuwe shares a sixteenth of Vincent’s DNA, including the Y chromosome passed down through the male line.
The project, which is a combination of science and art, is part of the work “Sugababe,” and was first presented on May 30. As part of the exhibit, viewers can speak to the ear through a microphone. Once the sound moves through the solution of nutrients and hits the ear’s artificial nerves, the words change and the sound — as the ear hears it — is then produced in an audio installation.
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Lieuwe van Gogh shares 1/60 of Vincent’s DNA.
Artist uses DNA to recreate live replica of van Gogh’s ear
Many know Vincent van Gogh as a brilliant impressionist painter, whose many works are displayed in museums across the world. Van Gogh has also come to embody the quintessential tortured creative genius — notorious for cutting off his left ear in a fit of madness in 1888.
A different museum exhibition showcases the anguished creativity of van Gogh in a far more unusual way: currently a recreation of van Gogh’s left ear is on display at The Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Artist Diemut Strebe used cells from the great-great grandson of van Gogh’s brother, Theo, and other DNA to construct a living replica of the ear. The ear was created using a 3D-printer and was grown in Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, she explains. It is currently being kept alive inside a case full of nourishing fluids, according to the Associated Press, and could “theoretically last for years.”
Vincent van Gogh’s descendant, Lieuwe van Gogh, was readily interested in the project. Also an artist, he was intrigued by the project, and willingly donated a tissue sample (cartilage) taken from behind his ear. “He liked the idea right away, so it wasn’t hard to convince him,” said Strebe. Lieuwe shares a sixteenth of Vincent’s DNA, including the Y chromosome passed down through the male line.
The project, which is a combination of science and art, is part of the work “Sugababe,” and was first presented on May 30. As part of the exhibit, viewers can speak to the ear through a microphone. Once the sound moves through the solution of nutrients and hits the ear’s artificial nerves, the words change and the sound — as the ear hears it — is then produced in an audio installation.
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Theo van Gogh’s son was Lieuwe’s great-grandfather.
Artist uses DNA to recreate live replica of van Gogh’s ear
Many know Vincent van Gogh as a brilliant impressionist painter, whose many works are displayed in museums across the world. Van Gogh has also come to embody the quintessential tortured creative genius — notorious for cutting off his left ear in a fit of madness in 1888.
A different museum exhibition showcases the anguished creativity of van Gogh in a far more unusual way: currently a recreation of van Gogh’s left ear is on display at The Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Artist Diemut Strebe used cells from the great-great grandson of van Gogh’s brother, Theo, and other DNA to construct a living replica of the ear. The ear was created using a 3D-printer and was grown in Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, she explains. It is currently being kept alive inside a case full of nourishing fluids, according to the Associated Press, and could “theoretically last for years.”
Vincent van Gogh’s descendant, Lieuwe van Gogh, was readily interested in the project. Also an artist, he was intrigued by the project, and willingly donated a tissue sample (cartilage) taken from behind his ear. “He liked the idea right away, so it wasn’t hard to convince him,” said Strebe. Lieuwe shares a sixteenth of Vincent’s DNA, including the Y chromosome passed down through the male line.
The project, which is a combination of science and art, is part of the work “Sugababe,” and was first presented on May 30. As part of the exhibit, viewers can speak to the ear through a microphone. Once the sound moves through the solution of nutrients and hits the ear’s artificial nerves, the words change and the sound — as the ear hears it — is then produced in an audio installation.
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The work of art started as a scientific experiment.
Artist uses DNA to recreate live replica of van Gogh’s ear
Many know Vincent van Gogh as a brilliant impressionist painter, whose many works are displayed in museums across the world. Van Gogh has also come to embody the quintessential tortured creative genius — notorious for cutting off his left ear in a fit of madness in 1888.
A different museum exhibition showcases the anguished creativity of van Gogh in a far more unusual way: currently a recreation of van Gogh’s left ear is on display at The Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Artist Diemut Strebe used cells from the great-great grandson of van Gogh’s brother, Theo, and other DNA to construct a living replica of the ear. The ear was created using a 3D-printer and was grown in Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, she explains. It is currently being kept alive inside a case full of nourishing fluids, according to the Associated Press, and could “theoretically last for years.”
Vincent van Gogh’s descendant, Lieuwe van Gogh, was readily interested in the project. Also an artist, he was intrigued by the project, and willingly donated a tissue sample (cartilage) taken from behind his ear. “He liked the idea right away, so it wasn’t hard to convince him,” said Strebe. Lieuwe shares a sixteenth of Vincent’s DNA, including the Y chromosome passed down through the male line.
The project, which is a combination of science and art, is part of the work “Sugababe,” and was first presented on May 30. As part of the exhibit, viewers can speak to the ear through a microphone. Once the sound moves through the solution of nutrients and hits the ear’s artificial nerves, the words change and the sound — as the ear hears it — is then produced in an audio installation.
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Visitors can ‘talk’ to the ear and listen to what Vincent van Gogh would respond.