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Book Synopsis

This collection explores critical and visual practices through the lens of interactions and intersections between pattern and chaos. The dynamic of the inter-relationship between pattern and chaos is such as to challenge disciplinary boundaries, critical frameworks and modes of understanding, perception and communication, often referencing the in-between territory of art and science through experimentation and visual scrutiny. A territory of 'pattern-chaos' or 'chaos-pattern' begins to unfold.

Drawing upon fields such as visual culture, sociology, physics, neurobiology, linguistics or critical theory, for example, contributors have experimented with pattern and/or chaos-related forms, processes, materials, sounds and language or have reflected on the work of other artists, scientists and scholars. Diagrams, tessellations, dust, knots, mazes, folds, creases, flux, virus, fire and flow are indicative of processes through which pattern and chaos are addressed.

The contributions are organized into clusters of subjects which reflect the interdisciplinary terrain through a robust, yet also experimental, arrangement. These are 'Pattern Dynamics', 'Morph Flux Mutate', 'Decompose Recompose', 'Virus; Social Imaginary' and 'Nothings in Particular'.



Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Introduction

Sarah Horton and Victoria Mitchell

PART 1: PATTERN DYNAMICS

Introduction

  1. The Anxious Spiral

Krzysztof Fijalkowski

  1. Representing Kinematics and Dynamics by Pattern-Breaking in Nature, Art and Music
  2. Brian Whalley and J. Harry Whalley
  3. Drawing Dynamic Patterns: The Protein Maze

Gemma Anderson, Jonathan Phillips and John Dupré

  1. The Metamorphogram: Pattern as Memory of Experience

Alun Kirby

  1. Crumpling: An Exploration of Nature

Dewi Brunet and Gwenaël Prost, for the CRIMP Ccollective

  1. Somewhere Between Weaving and Painting

Geoff Diego Litherland (with Angharad McLaren)

  1. Knotting Across Species: Creating Order from Chaos

Eleanor Morgan

  1. Simplifying Complexity: The Visual Language of Neuroscience

Gill Brown

PART 2: MORPH, FLUX, MUTATE

Introduction

  1. Unrepeating-Repeat

Danica Maier

  1. Pattern Evolution

Kate Farley

  1. Geomorphology: Mapping the Land, Above and Below Water

Glyn Brewerton

  1. Flux

Katy Hammond

  1. Drawing Fire

David Griffin

  1. Imago Images

Robert Hillier

  1. The Chaos of Delight: Spatial and Temporal Interruptions

Lesley Halliwell

PART 3: DECOMPOSE–-RECOMPOSE

Introduction

  1. Foment

Catherine Yass

  1. Meniscus

James Quinn

  1. Digital Dadaism

Chris Brown

  1. Forty-Four Sounds

Mark Graver

  1. A Type of Chaos

Pauline Clancy

  1. Fragile Order

Charlotte Hodes

  1. Shatter

Zoë Hillyard

  1. The Moments I am Looking For…

Judith Stewart

  1. Expanded Visuality: Photography as a Patterning Mechanism for the Animated Form

Katarina Andjelkovic

PART 4: VIRUS

Introduction

  1. Global Ghost Map

Anne Eggebert

  1. Embodied and Coded: Drawings as Viral Systems

Daksha Patel

  1. Viral Experiments

Louise Mackenzie

  1. Contagious Pattern: The Spread of Appropriated Patterns by Contemporary Artists

Andrew Bracey

PART 5: SOCIAL IMAGINARY

Introduction

  1. You’ll Never Walk Alone: Aa Song of Community and Struggle 1945–2021

Sarah Lowndes

  1. Dialectical Reversal in About Two Worlds

David Mabb

  1. Distance and Disruption: The Organizsed Disorder of the Body in Illness

Catherine Baker

  1. Unfolding Thinking: Nanotechnology Meets Fine Art Practice

Les Bicknell

  1. Instead of the Feeling of Home

Townley and Bradby

  1. Designing for the Real World: The Importance of Chaos

Anthony Hudson

  1. Order?

Sarah Blair

  1. You Guys Are So Stochastic

Lucy Ward and Karoline Wiesner

  1. Clouds in the Machine

Sarah Horton

PART 6 NOTHINGS IN PARTICULAR

Introduction

  1. The Shape of Dust

Doris Rohr

  1. Mimesis: Nothings in Particular

William Prosser

  1. Mottled Geometries: The Lure and Allure of the Pattern in the Carpet

Victoria Mitchell

  1. Ghost Flower 3

Andrea Stokes

  1. Dom Sylvester Houédard: Exhibiting Spiritual Architypestractures and Cosmic Dust

Nicola Simpson

Notes on Contributors

Bibliography

Index

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    Publisher: Intellect Books
    Publication Date: 08/12/2023
    ISBN13: 9781789388718, 978-1789388718
    ISBN10: 1789388716
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    Description

    Book Synopsis

    This collection explores critical and visual practices through the lens of interactions and intersections between pattern and chaos. The dynamic of the inter-relationship between pattern and chaos is such as to challenge disciplinary boundaries, critical frameworks and modes of understanding, perception and communication, often referencing the in-between territory of art and science through experimentation and visual scrutiny. A territory of 'pattern-chaos' or 'chaos-pattern' begins to unfold.

    Drawing upon fields such as visual culture, sociology, physics, neurobiology, linguistics or critical theory, for example, contributors have experimented with pattern and/or chaos-related forms, processes, materials, sounds and language or have reflected on the work of other artists, scientists and scholars. Diagrams, tessellations, dust, knots, mazes, folds, creases, flux, virus, fire and flow are indicative of processes through which pattern and chaos are addressed.

    The contributions are organized into clusters of subjects which reflect the interdisciplinary terrain through a robust, yet also experimental, arrangement. These are 'Pattern Dynamics', 'Morph Flux Mutate', 'Decompose Recompose', 'Virus; Social Imaginary' and 'Nothings in Particular'.



    Table of Contents

    Acknowledgements

    List of Figures

    Introduction

    Sarah Horton and Victoria Mitchell

    PART 1: PATTERN DYNAMICS

    Introduction

    1. The Anxious Spiral

    Krzysztof Fijalkowski

    1. Representing Kinematics and Dynamics by Pattern-Breaking in Nature, Art and Music
    2. Brian Whalley and J. Harry Whalley
    3. Drawing Dynamic Patterns: The Protein Maze

    Gemma Anderson, Jonathan Phillips and John Dupré

    1. The Metamorphogram: Pattern as Memory of Experience

    Alun Kirby

    1. Crumpling: An Exploration of Nature

    Dewi Brunet and Gwenaël Prost, for the CRIMP Ccollective

    1. Somewhere Between Weaving and Painting

    Geoff Diego Litherland (with Angharad McLaren)

    1. Knotting Across Species: Creating Order from Chaos

    Eleanor Morgan

    1. Simplifying Complexity: The Visual Language of Neuroscience

    Gill Brown

    PART 2: MORPH, FLUX, MUTATE

    Introduction

    1. Unrepeating-Repeat

    Danica Maier

    1. Pattern Evolution

    Kate Farley

    1. Geomorphology: Mapping the Land, Above and Below Water

    Glyn Brewerton

    1. Flux

    Katy Hammond

    1. Drawing Fire

    David Griffin

    1. Imago Images

    Robert Hillier

    1. The Chaos of Delight: Spatial and Temporal Interruptions

    Lesley Halliwell

    PART 3: DECOMPOSE–-RECOMPOSE

    Introduction

    1. Foment

    Catherine Yass

    1. Meniscus

    James Quinn

    1. Digital Dadaism

    Chris Brown

    1. Forty-Four Sounds

    Mark Graver

    1. A Type of Chaos

    Pauline Clancy

    1. Fragile Order

    Charlotte Hodes

    1. Shatter

    Zoë Hillyard

    1. The Moments I am Looking For…

    Judith Stewart

    1. Expanded Visuality: Photography as a Patterning Mechanism for the Animated Form

    Katarina Andjelkovic

    PART 4: VIRUS

    Introduction

    1. Global Ghost Map

    Anne Eggebert

    1. Embodied and Coded: Drawings as Viral Systems

    Daksha Patel

    1. Viral Experiments

    Louise Mackenzie

    1. Contagious Pattern: The Spread of Appropriated Patterns by Contemporary Artists

    Andrew Bracey

    PART 5: SOCIAL IMAGINARY

    Introduction

    1. You’ll Never Walk Alone: Aa Song of Community and Struggle 1945–2021

    Sarah Lowndes

    1. Dialectical Reversal in About Two Worlds

    David Mabb

    1. Distance and Disruption: The Organizsed Disorder of the Body in Illness

    Catherine Baker

    1. Unfolding Thinking: Nanotechnology Meets Fine Art Practice

    Les Bicknell

    1. Instead of the Feeling of Home

    Townley and Bradby

    1. Designing for the Real World: The Importance of Chaos

    Anthony Hudson

    1. Order?

    Sarah Blair

    1. You Guys Are So Stochastic

    Lucy Ward and Karoline Wiesner

    1. Clouds in the Machine

    Sarah Horton

    PART 6 NOTHINGS IN PARTICULAR

    Introduction

    1. The Shape of Dust

    Doris Rohr

    1. Mimesis: Nothings in Particular

    William Prosser

    1. Mottled Geometries: The Lure and Allure of the Pattern in the Carpet

    Victoria Mitchell

    1. Ghost Flower 3

    Andrea Stokes

    1. Dom Sylvester Houédard: Exhibiting Spiritual Architypestractures and Cosmic Dust

    Nicola Simpson

    Notes on Contributors

    Bibliography

    Index

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