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Max Herman’s work

Collaborations

Max Herman is a writer and artist with degrees in English literature and information technology, based in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota, USA, where he was born and raised and attended public schools.  He has created a variety of on and off-line works in multiple media and genres. 


The Mindful Mona Lisa   

The Mindful Mona Lisa project centers on the blog of the same name by Max Herman, hosted by the MIT Press’ Leonardo journal at Leonardo.info/blog since May of
2020.  It discusses a very wide range of topics, including the Covid-19 pandemic, sustainability, literary theory, art history, networks, the history of science, and their various philosophical and cultural interconnections, all through the lens of a novel hypothesis regarding the art and writing of Leonardo. 

This is the “bridge-garment-experience hypothesis,” strongly influenced by Italo Calvino’s Six Memos for the Next Millennium (or Lezioni Americane), and it proposes for the first time in published scholarship that La Gioconda may be an allegorical portrait of “Esperienza,” the Italian word for both experience and experiment, which Leonardo personified in his writings as “the common mother of all the sciences and arts,” “the interpreter between humans and nature,” and “the one true maestra,” pledging himself her “disciple” and vowing “as maestra, to acknowledge her, and in all cases cite her as evidence.” 

Explanatory essays for each blog post and other supporting materials are available from this link: https://www.pibinko.org/out/CommediaLeonardiVici-the-Leonardo-Trilogy.pdf (15 Mb, 797 pages).

Other works

Additional works by Mr. Herman currently available online are seethebridge.org and ExperienceDemocracy2024.org/experience-democracy-is. Other past and recent works including Wrong Bienniale, Calzona Museum, and more, are available upon request to the author. 

Collaborations

Max Herman is one of the sponsors for the Jug Band Colline Metallifere 2024 Gran(i)Tour. You may see more articles about Max Herman’s works from https://www.pibinko.org/tag/max-herman/




     

Mr. Sean Connerie

Collaborations

Mr. Connerie started to collaborate with the pibinko.org network in the Summer of 2023 during the Jug Band Colline Metallifere Brezel Tour, where we found a lot of characters with strange glasses.

Mr. Connerie’s whereabouts are partly documented via the pibinko and jugbandcm Instagram channels, and other classified sources.

His role in the network is not yet completely clear to those without the proper glasses. For more information (or if you need a pair of glasses): micalosapevo@pibinko.org or whatsapp +393317539228

Pizzeria Civico 4, in Scansano (Southern Tuscany)

Collaborations

Please note: the Pizzeria has closed in early 2023. We are in any case in contact with Andrea and Elio

In Garibaldi square, at the centre of Scansano, the village who gave its name to the Morellino wine. This is a location which works as an excellent pizza place, with all the required drinking options, but will also cater you with various forms of food for thought, brought to you by Andrea and Elio.

Claudio Spinosi

Collaborations

[TO BE TRANSLATED]

…noto Bob. Vive in ed è parte de la Val di Farma. Muratore e suonatore di bombardino, conosce molto bene storia e geografia nel raggio di 50 km da piazza del Popolo di Torniella (e ne sa parecchie anche oltre). Ha iniziato a collaborare con la rete pibinko.org il 4.1.2007, nell’aperitivo alla Combriccola di Torniella in cui fu condivisa l’idea di portare la palla a 21 a Chicago. Da allora è una delle colonne portanti della rete, è co-autore di alcune presentazioni scientifiche (una presentata nel 2011 a un workshop UNESCO a Gerace, e una del 2015 allo Ecocity World Summit di Abu Dhabi).

Se la bassa Toscana fosse la somma di paradiso, purgatorio e inferno, Bob sarebbe il vostro Virgilio.

Vari contributi di Bob e della famiglia Spinosi di Torniella (anche Fabiano e Pio) sono documentati sul sito pibinko.org: http://www.pibinko.org/it/?s=spinosi.

claudio.spinosi@gmail.com