Pattern and Chaos in Art, Science and Everyday Life
Critical Intersections and Creative Practice
Published on 8. December 2023
Book
Hardback
374 pages
978-1-78938-871-8 (ISBN)
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'.
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'.
Reviews / Votes
'In Pattern and Chaos in Art, Science and Everyday Life, chaos serves as the setting, while the creation, examination, documentation and destruction of patterns constitute the subject of the narrative... Many of these essays break down our sensory and imagined world into fundamental parts for metaphysical scrutiny and transformations between sense and creative interpretation.The personal and observational nature of...most of the writing in this book, is characteristic of academic writing about the creative process. This type of writing will be familiar to those publishing work in creative disciplines or collaborating with creatives in academia. For them, this book is a survey of works in related fields. Some of the featured techniques could be repeated at a smaller scale as practical exercises or investigations. This style will be less familiar to scientists, but it is a valuable example of research documentation outside the lab and shows how scientific research can be combined with work from other communities.
Regardless of your professional discipline, when you take a step back and consider what these artists are doing, the imaginative power of their work is moving.' -- Alice Grishchenko, NaturePhysics
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Intellect
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
126 Halftones, color; 50 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 170 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-78938-871-8 (9781789388718)
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Critical Intersections and Creative Practice
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Persons
Victoria Mitchell is Research Fellow at Norwich University of the Arts. She has published papers on various aspects of art, design and textile culture, pursuing an interdisciplinary theoretical approach which focuses on material, making, metaphor and meaning, and is co-editor of The Material Culture of Basketry (Bloomsbury, 2020), for which she wrote on pattern in the context of braiding and dancing.
Dr Sarah Horton is an artist-researcher whose practice includes sculpture, drawing and painting often resulting in site-specific artwork. Her doctorate 'Decoration: Disrupting the workplace and challenging the work of art' indicates an ongoing interest in the way pattern, decoration and ornament is used in fine art and in a wider sense to indicate value and identity.
Dr Sarah Horton is an artist-researcher whose practice includes sculpture, drawing and painting often resulting in site-specific artwork. Her doctorate 'Decoration: Disrupting the workplace and challenging the work of art' indicates an ongoing interest in the way pattern, decoration and ornament is used in fine art and in a wider sense to indicate value and identity.
Content
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 Dupre
The Metamorphogram: Pattern as Memory of Experience
Alun Kirby
Crumpling: An Exploration of Nature
Dewi Brunet and Gwenael 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
Zoe 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 Houedard: Exhibiting Spiritual Architypestractures and Cosmic Dust
Nicola Simpson
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index
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 Dupre
The Metamorphogram: Pattern as Memory of Experience
Alun Kirby
Crumpling: An Exploration of Nature
Dewi Brunet and Gwenael 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
Zoe 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 Houedard: Exhibiting Spiritual Architypestractures and Cosmic Dust
Nicola Simpson
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index