Sociology and Complexity Science Blog

Check it out! i am in a commercial for our campus, Kent State University at Ashtabula. Very Cool! And for those in Northeastern Ohio, con...

This coming weekend i am going to the Eighth International Conference on Complex Systems in Boston. My colleagues Jürgen and Christina Klüve...

This coming weekend i am going to the Eighth International Conference on Complex Systems in Boston. My colleagues Jürgen and Christina Klüve...

TRICYCLE by Brian Castellani For local 'clevelandites,' come see one of my latest assemblages (a sneak peek of part of it shown abov...

Hi Folks! Cowboy Bri here! Sorry it has been a while since i last posted anything worth reading or viewing, but complexity ideas, as you kno...

CLICK HERE TO SEE OUR MARGARET SERIES T-SHIRTS My wife, Maggie--who is a member of the art and science factory team--is known by friends and...

I recently ran across some very interesting art work by James Moss, who describes himself as an "Artist/Educator - integrating science ...

This post continues my discussion about the challenges associated with how one goes about testing the validity and utility of the particular...

This post continues my discussion about (1) the need for researchers to be clear about the definition of complexity they use and (2) to make...

As regular readers of this blog know, I am currently working on a community health study with my colleague, Galen Buckwalter, wherein we are...

Over the past year I have been making an argument for the emergence of a movement i call, for the lack of a better term, complexity art . ...

My brother and I are at the International Sociological Association, presenting our paper on the SACS Toolkit and its application to the stud...

This post extends a conversation I began on 19 May 2010, titled testing the validity of complex systems . This is the fifth post on this top...

This post extends a conversation I began on 19 May 2010, titled testing the validity of complex systems . This is the fourth post on this to...

This post extends a conversation I began on 19 May 2010, titled testing the validity of complex systems . I my last two posts I've argue...

This post extends a conversation I began on 19 May 2010, titled testing the validity of complex systems . My basic argument is that we simpl...

I could be wrong here, and I am not entirely sure about the argument I am making, but it seems to me that much of the work being done in com...

Okay, so a few of my personal art critics asked me to push the painting you see above a bit further. To see the older version, click here ...

Michelangelo and Da Vinci's work are a major source of inspiration for my artistic and scientific work in complexity. Their Renaissance...

It has been a while since my last post. My research colleagues and I have been busy creating a new research center for studying health ...

Balcony View of the Westside Market, Cleveland Ohio, 1971 & 2010 This photomontage highlights how Cleveland’s past is part of our pr...

My colleague, Fred Hafferty, and I have been working for the past five years to articulate a grounded theoretical frame for understanding me...

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...