Saccades is the blog of Yarbus, a collective research project consisting of events and publications dealing with how media, visual culture and technology affect the human condition. Yarbus' program is hosted in the Open Coop, Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam.

Yarbus is also Alfred Lukyanovich Yarbus (Альфред Лукьянович Ярбус, 3 April, 1914; Moscow – ?) who was a Russian psychologist (known there as Alfred Lukjanovic Jarbus) who studied eye movements in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Remix Theory » REPOST: In Super Bowl Commercials, the Nostalgia Bowl

AS dangerous as it may be to generalize, it is probably safe to say that few folks think of Marcel Proust as they watch the Super Bowl. But for the advertising bowl that took place inside Super Bowl XLIV on Sunday, it was one long remembrance of things past — with candy bars, mobile phones and beer bottles standing in for madeleines.

Feb 8 2010