Sociology and Complexity Science Blog

Here is another assemblage photomontage. The photos are by my nephew, Kevin Rusnak, and by me.

The following photo is part of my new series of work. In what follows, I provide a series of powerpoint slides that explain what is going on...

If you spend any time regularly visiting Barabasi's website, you have seen the incredible work he has done with Cesar Hidalgo --as the a...

Thanks to everyone who came out to see our work at the Festivus Art Show , held by the most excellent Cleveland Gallery WALLEYE . What a gr...

Here are examples of the 3D photo cut-ups I have been working on the past couple weeks. These are photos that I have taken of family, frien...

Here is a picture of my wife, Maggie, and our daughter, Ruby at the OddMall Show--the art show in Hudson Ohio we set up shop at this past we...

Here is a complex network sculpture I did. I used foam-core, toothpicks, wooden sticks(all painted in acrylic) to create this sculpture. I...

Click here to get information about the show For local folks, the Art & Science Factory (my business) will be selling its wares at the O...

This is a painting I recently completed that addresses several influences I have been wrestling with. On the scientific side is the new sci...

Okay, this is amazing! At Goldsmiths, University of London, you can get an MFA in computational art. Here is a description of the program ....

Okay, this is about as "out there" as art gets. I found this fascinating article by Philip Galanter, of the Interactive Telecommu...

For the past couple weeks I have been touring the web looking for anything I can find on the relationship between complexity and art. To my ...

This past week I painted my first self-portrait. My brilliant nephew, Kevin Rusnak, took the photo of me at a family barbecue. I decided to...

I have always been a huge comics fan. I wasn't so much into the superhero genre, though. I was drawn more to humor, social critique an...

On 1 Sept 2009 I posted on the "SOM for qualitative data" work done by Timo Honkela and colleagues at the Helsinki University of ...

If you are into neural nets, you know about the Laboratory of Computer and Information Science at the Helsinki University of Technology. On...

Here is a photographic example of the assemblage process. In this photo a mom and her daughter are integrated to form a system and yet thei...

Okay, just in case you do not agree with my art postings about the connection between art and complexity science, you need to look at the wo...

Here is a second version of my Space Madonna. The focus in this painting, as in most of my work, is the creation of a multi-singularity; th...

Here is a painting I recently completed, or one version of it. It combines cubism, abstract expressionism, pop, illustration, icons, and su...

Well, I am back from a couple weeks in Europe where I attended the sociocybernetics conference in Urbino. The conference focus was life on ...

The past several days I have been searching the web for articles or books that explore the connections between Foucault's work and compl...

One of the fastest growing areas in the study of community health in complex systems terms is the built environment literature. The built e...

In 2007, the periodical, Social Science & Medicine (one of the leading journals in community health science) published a special edition...

The following is a brief interview I conducted with British Sociologist and Complexity Scientist, David Byrne. Dr. Byrne is Professor in the...

While the community-as-complex-system model is relatively new, it already has a major journal outlet, called Health & Place: An Internat...

In yesterday's post, I discussed the three models currently used to do community health science. Of the three models, I am obviously a ...

At present, one can organize the community health science literature into three dominant approaches. 1. Social Pathways Model : The oldest ...

As I have discussed in previous posts, my two main substative foci are medical professionalism and community health--both from a complexity ...

I am presenting the following paper at the upcoming sociocybernetics conference this June in Urbino Italy. This year's conference is al...

The above picture is another example of what I call complexity art . The technique is called assemblage (or, alternatively, assembled cubi...

Sociology is not the only trajectory along which I have pursued the study of complexity. In fact, long before I figured out how to apply com...

I have been working on a few new geek t-shirts shirts, which people have seemed to like. The whole idea behind these shirts is to promote co...

For those interested in learning more about qualitative comparative analysis (QCA), here is the link to Ragin's overview, which provides...

For the last several posts, I have been discussing the need for complexity science to truly overcome the qualitative/quantitative divide by ...

(click here for article) GROUNDED NEURAL NETWORKING: MODELING COMPLEX QUANTITATIVE DATA. The above publication is the type of work I am re...

This post builds on yesterday's Qualitative/Narrative Complexity Science . Part of my argument in the above post was that, in terms of q...

For all of its advances (and they are many) complexity science has yet to bridge fully the rift between qualitative and quantitative method....

CLICK HERE TO SEE THIS ABSOLUTELY ROCKIN' MANDELBROT SONG This is absolutely the coolest math song ever written. I gave a MATH DAY pres...

Okay, so most of us geeks fit the stereotype--instead of going on dates in highschool with humans, we were dating elves (male or female) or ...

This is a great graphic overview of the increasing complexity and interdiscplinary nature of scientific inquiry. (As a side note, it also s...

When people take time to post a comment on this blog, I always take the time to read about their work. Recently, Tom Mandel posted a commen...

Another overwhelming aspect to sticking my toe into the complexity rapids is the number of new concepts and terms I have encountered (from a...