Research

Buoy, girl, seal

Buoy, girl, seal

Tales from the Flexitariat: the sadness of the scientific lamp maker

tools of a cog worker
Author/s: 
doll_yoko

My current flexi-job in the Land of Cog involves research on an arts project. It's a good gig – my colleagues/managers are old friends, the hourly rate is better than normal here (AUS $27 per hour), and the work interesting. The core of my work is interviewing artists and tradespeople who have been partnered in a professional exchange project.


Technological Determinism in Media Art

Publication Type  Thesis
Citation Key  676
Year of Publication  2005
Authors  Medosch, A.
University  Ravensbourne College / Sussex University
City  London
Degree  Masters Thesis
Publication Language  English
Key Words  technological determinism; media art; techno-utopianism; artificial intelligence; artificial life; cybernetics; art; progress; critical theory
URL  http://ung.at/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Main/TechnologicalDeterminismInMediaArt

Lost Music

Fate Ticket

My research today took a poetic wander. In thinking about the electromagnetic environment and how 'on land' we are submerged in modulated mumblings, my thoughts turned to the electromagnetically silent world of the deep, a world where radio and light don't penetrate, a world that can only be felt through other senses; the skin, the emotions, sound. Today I started looking at the Titanic.

Titanic Hull

Titanic Hull

This is a picture (2004) taken of the hull of the Titanic 92 years after she sunk. The wreck lies at approximately 3,500 metres below the surface of the water, which is the same distance as the tops of some alpine peaks. This very beautiful and peaceful photograph along with a selected few other relatively hi-res images can be found at the Boat Shed

All photographs by Robert Ballard, the original diver discoverer of the Titanic wreck. The image was retrieved from the above link.

Fate Ticket

Fate Ticket

'One exhibit at Liverpool's Merseyside Maritime Museum is a yellowed envelope whose black-and-red printing announces that it contains "First Class Passenger Ticket per Steamship..." (Then, written in fading brown ink): Titanic.
Because Reverend Holden's wife was taken ill, their tickets, once contained in this unique envelope, were never used.
The reverend framed the envelope with the inscription, "Who Redeemeth Thy Life from Destruction" and retained it for years after the sinking.' (Merseyside Maritime Museum.)

Man, Machine, Nature

Man, Machine, Nature

Yes, the fascination (for me) with metal and engines never goes away (!) ... however this is one of the most amazing pictures that I have seen of the building of the Titanic, it encapsulates the scale and strength of the 'arc' compared to man, yet in comparing the arc to the ocean it becomes meaningless...

Kant's Theory of Aesthetics

Publication Type  Journal Article
Citation Key  1931
Year of Publication  1931
Authors  Lee, H.N.
Journal Title  The Philosophical Review
Volume  40
Pages  537--548
Number  6
Publisher  Duke University Press on behalf of Philosophical Review
Publication Language  eng
URL  http://www.jstor.org/stable/2180042

Relational aesthetics

Publication Type  Book
Citation Key  646
Year of Publication  2002
Authors  Bourriaud, Nicolas.
City  [Dijon]
Publisher  Les Presses du réel
Tertiary Title  Collection Documents sur l'art
Date Published  2002///
Publication Language  eng
ISBN Number  2840660601 9782840660606
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