Full Description
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'.
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Introduction
Sarah Horton and Victoria Mitchell
PART 1: PATTERN DYNAMICS
Introduction
The Anxious Spiral
Krzysztof Fijalkowski
Representing Kinematics and Dynamics by Pattern-Breaking in Nature, Art and Music
Brian Whalley and J. Harry Whalley
Drawing Dynamic Patterns: The Protein Maze
Gemma Anderson, Jonathan Phillips and John Dupré
The Metamorphogram: Pattern as Memory of Experience
Alun Kirby
Crumpling: An Exploration of Nature
Dewi Brunet and Gwenaël Prost, for the CRIMP Ccollective
Somewhere Between Weaving and Painting
Geoff Diego Litherland (with Angharad McLaren)
Knotting Across Species: Creating Order from Chaos
Eleanor Morgan
Simplifying Complexity: The Visual Language of Neuroscience
Gill Brown
PART 2: MORPH, FLUX, MUTATE
Introduction
Unrepeating-Repeat
Danica Maier
Pattern Evolution
Kate Farley
Geomorphology: Mapping the Land, Above and Below Water
Glyn Brewerton
Flux
Katy Hammond
Drawing Fire
David Griffin
Imago Images
Robert Hillier
The Chaos of Delight: Spatial and Temporal Interruptions
Lesley Halliwell
PART 3: DECOMPOSE--RECOMPOSE
Introduction
Foment
Catherine Yass
Meniscus
James Quinn
Digital Dadaism
Chris Brown
Forty-Four Sounds
Mark Graver
A Type of Chaos
Pauline Clancy
Fragile Order
Charlotte Hodes
Shatter
Zoë Hillyard
The Moments I am Looking For...
Judith Stewart
Expanded Visuality: Photography as a Patterning Mechanism for the Animated Form
Katarina Andjelkovic
PART 4: VIRUS
Introduction
Global Ghost Map
Anne Eggebert
Embodied and Coded: Drawings as Viral Systems
Daksha Patel
Viral Experiments
Louise Mackenzie
Contagious Pattern: The Spread of Appropriated Patterns by Contemporary Artists
Andrew Bracey
PART 5: SOCIAL IMAGINARY
Introduction
You'll Never Walk Alone: Aa Song of Community and Struggle 1945-2021
Sarah Lowndes
Dialectical Reversal in About Two Worlds
David Mabb
Distance and Disruption: The Organizsed Disorder of the Body in Illness
Catherine Baker
Unfolding Thinking: Nanotechnology Meets Fine Art Practice
Les Bicknell
Instead of the Feeling of Home
Townley and Bradby
Designing for the Real World: The Importance of Chaos
Anthony Hudson
Order?
Sarah Blair
You Guys Are So Stochastic
Lucy Ward and Karoline Wiesner
Clouds in the Machine
Sarah Horton
PART 6 NOTHINGS IN PARTICULAR
Introduction
The Shape of Dust
Doris Rohr
Mimesis: Nothings in Particular
William Prosser
Mottled Geometries: The Lure and Allure of the Pattern in the Carpet
Victoria Mitchell
Ghost Flower 3
Andrea Stokes
Dom Sylvester Houédard: Exhibiting Spiritual Architypestractures and Cosmic Dust
Nicola Simpson
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index
