One iconic image from the film depicts a couple picnicking on a blanket, serving as a human-scale grounding for the macro- and micro-explorations in the film. It illustrates the universe as an arena of both continuity and change, of everyday picnics and cosmic mystery. Powers of Ten is a short documentary film that depicts the relative scale of the universe in factors of ten. Books, journals, food, and objects are recast and serve as cues pointing back to the film and forward to each researcher's own work. Like the stage of a microscope, the blanket becomes a stage where the act of inventorying and recording becomes the content of the work. The result of a research-based residency at the University of California Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the publication includes four essays and ten interviews with researchers whose work relates to one of the magnitudes of ten of the 1968 IBM-commissioned film. If you can’t find the resource you need here, visit our contact page to get in touch.Įstablished in 1962, the MIT Press is one of the largest and most distinguished university presses in the world and a leading publisher of books and journals at the intersection of science, technology, art, social science, and design.Ī Variation on Powers of Ten uses the opening picnic scene of Charles and Ray Eames's film Powers of Ten as score to guide ten discussions. The MIT Press has been a leader in open access book publishing for over two decades, beginning in 1995 with the publication of William Mitchell’s City of Bits, which appeared simultaneously in print and in a dynamic, open web edition.Ĭollaborating with authors, instructors, booksellers, librarians, and the media is at the heart of what we do as a scholarly publisher. Today we publish over 30 titles in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and science and technology. MIT Press began publishing journals in 1970 with the first volumes of Linguistic Inquiry and the Journal of Interdisciplinary History. International Affairs, History, & Political Science.
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