Kalyani Tupkary
@kalyanitupkary
I design objects and interfaces - sometimes real, sometimes fictional.
Kalyani Tupkary
kalyanitupkary.com
A curious legal crusade to redefine personhood is raising profound questions about the interdependence of the animal and human kingdoms.
Lawrence-wright • The Elephant in the Courtroom
You’ve Got Mail - Meg Ryan, Tom Hanks
This is a world in which time is not fluid, parting to make way for events. Instead, time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past. Every action, every thought, every breath of wind, every flight of birds is completely determined, forever… In a world of fixed future, life is
... See moreThe Marginalian • Einstein’s Dreams: Physicist Alan Lightman’s Poetic Exploration of Time and the Antidote to the Anxiety of Aliveness – The Marginalian
I n eighty-five essays, contributors nominate “extinct” objects and address them in a series of short, vivid, sometimes personal accounts, speaking not only of obsolete technologies, but of other ways of thinking, making, and interacting with the world. Extinct is filled with curious, half-remembered objects, each one evoking a future that never
... See moreMiranda Critchley • Extinct
ideas for structuring the talk
My work harnesses basic shapes from the digital world, reifying them in physical reality to expand the liminal space between. Through a wide range of techniques ranging from custom software crafted for each piece to careful composition and contemporary CNC fabrication methods, my process itself continuously evolves in order to realize complex and... See more
Nicole Aptekar
a tension of intellect and intuition.
it describes the journeys of A. Square [sic – ed.] , a mathematician and resident of the two-dimensional Flatland, where women-thin, straight lines-are the lowliest of shapes, and where men may have any number of sides, depending on their social status.
Edwin A. Abbott • Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
The filing cabinet encouraged the drive to break more and more of modern life and its everyday routines into discrete, observable, and manageable parts