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’.
Spis treści
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Introduction
Sarah Horton and Victoria Mitchell
PART 1: PATTERN DYNAMICS
Introduction
Krzysztof Fijalkowski
Gemma Anderson, Jonathan Phillips and John Dupré
Alun Kirby
Dewi Brunet and Gwenaël Prost, for the CRIMP Ccollective
Geoff Diego Litherland (with Angharad Mc Laren)
Eleanor Morgan
Gill Brown
PART 2: MORPH, FLUX, MUTATE
Introduction
Danica Maier
Kate Farley
Glyn Brewerton
Katy Hammond
David Griffin
Robert Hillier
Lesley Halliwell
PART 3: DECOMPOSE–-RECOMPOSE
Introduction
Catherine Yass
James Quinn
Chris Brown
Mark Graver
Pauline Clancy
Charlotte Hodes
Zoë Hillyard
Judith Stewart
Katarina Andjelkovic
PART 4: VIRUS
Introduction
Anne Eggebert
Daksha Patel
Louise Mackenzie
Andrew Bracey
PART 5: SOCIAL IMAGINARY
Introduction
Sarah Lowndes
David Mabb
Catherine Baker
Les Bicknell
Townley and Bradby
Anthony Hudson
Sarah Blair
Lucy Ward and Karoline Wiesner
Sarah Horton
PART 6 NOTHINGS IN PARTICULAR
Introduction
Doris Rohr
William Prosser
Victoria Mitchell
Andrea Stokes
Nicola Simpson
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index
O autorze
Victoria Mitchell writes on making, embodiment, metaphor and meaning, often in the context of textile culture. She is a research fellow at Norwich University of the Arts.