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The Adventures of Percival: A Phylogenetic Tale

The Adventures of Percival: A Phylogenetic Tale

Senges, Pierre
Daniele, Riviere
de Crécy, Nicolas

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Art Criticism & TheoryGeneral Computers

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ISBN10: 2914563477
ISBN13: 9782914563475
Publisher: Dis Voir Editions
Published: Oct 31 2009
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.50 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
The first installment in Dis Voir's new illustrated fairy tales for adults, The Adventures of Percival is based on the classic probability proposition that a chimpanzee randomly typing will eventually type a Shakespeare sonnet. Here, McIntosh, a gardener-mathematician (and spiritual cousin of Baron Münchhausen), decides to take the fable seriously, and with the assistance of a typewriter and a chimpanzee called Percival, undertakes to enact the experiment. Naturally things don't go as planned, as the chimpanzee proves to be less compliant than expected and bizarre behavioral mergings occur between man and animal. Nicolas de Crécy's comic drawings sometimes illustrate and sometimes contradict Senges' narrative, or inveigle themselves between his lines like a creeper. Inspired by research in animal behavior led by Dominique Lestel, and by the work of the landscape artist-gardener Alain Richert, Senges' tale of interspecies cognition makes a conscious nod towards contemporary debates within the cognitive sciences.

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