Wassily Kandinsky: the painter of sound and vision

Wassily Kandinsky: the painter of sound and vision

Playing with the boundaries between the visual and the musical is an old game. The Pythagoreans were probably the first westerners at it when they declared: “The eyes are made for astronomy, the ears for harmony, and these are sister sciences.” This relatively simple proposition was taken up by medieval and later sages, who developed […]

Le cheminement vers `l Hyperboree

Le cheminement vers `l Hyperboree

““…question qui troublait Hérodote: “Qui sont les Hyperboréens?” Sont-ils “la population d’au-delà du Vent du Nord, qui pratiquait le culte de ce Vent, tout comme les Thraces qui peuplaient la côte de la Mer de Marmara? Croyaient-ils que, après la mort, leurs âmes fussent conduites par Hermès, gardien des âmes, vers le château de glace, […]

This ancient Babylonian tablet has just changed the history of astronomy

This ancient Babylonian tablet has just changed the history of astronomy

Not only does this discovery change everything we thought we knew about Astronomy in ancient times, but the ancient tablets describe math that was believed to have been invented over 1,000 years later, drastically changing everything we know about ancient man, and rewriting history books along the way. For the past couple of decades, it […]

“Imitation of Life” And the world turned upside down

“Imitation of Life” And the world turned upside down

Imitation of Life; Proton Theatre: Written by: Kata Wéber Direction: Kornél Mundruczó; Stage Design: Márton Ágh; Costume Design: Márton Ágh, Melinda Domán; Dramaturgy: Soma Boronkay; Cast: Lili Monori, Roland Rába, Annamária Láng, Zsombor Jéger, Dáriusz Kozma The 59th edition of the International Theatre Festival MESS was opened with the performance Imitation of Life, by Hungarian film and theatre […]

Viruses from cosmos

Viruses from cosmos

 An interview with Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe Conducted by Dr Predrag Slijepcevic, Brunel University London Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe is best known for his work on the modern version of the panspermia theory – life in the form of microbes has the cosmic origin – conceived and developed in collaboration with his PhD supervisor and a long-term […]