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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: Publication Date: 08/12/2023
      ISBN13: 9781789388718, 978-1789388718
      ISBN10: 1789388716

      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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