Pattern and Chaos in Art, Science and Everyday Life: Critical Intersections and Creative Practice

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Sarah Horton (Norwich University of the Arts, UK) Victoria Mitchell (Norwich University of the Arts, UK)

Pattern and Chaos in Art, Science and Everyday Life

Critical Intersections and Creative Practice

Sarah Horton (Norwich University of the Arts, UK), Victoria Mitchell (Norwich University of the Arts, UK)

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Intellect Books
01 April 2024

Art techniques & principles; Pattern recognition; Educational: Sciences, general science

A multidisciplinary study of pattern and chaos.

This book explores critical and visual practices through the lens of interactions and intersections between pattern and chaos. The interrelationship between pattern and chaos challenges disciplinary boundaries, critical frameworks, and modes of understanding, perception, and communication. Drawing on fields such as visual culture, sociology, physics, neurobiology, linguistics, and critical theory, contributors to this volume explore the results of experiments with pattern and chaos–related forms, processes, materials, sounds, and language. The result is a bracing, wide-ranging examination of a central dynamic in the making and understanding of art.

By: Sarah Horton (Norwich University of the Arts UK), Victoria Mitchell (Norwich University of the Arts, UK)
Imprint: Intellect Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 244mm, Width: 170mm,
ISBN: 9781789387803
ISBN 10: 1789387809
Pages: 374
Publication Date: 01 April 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

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.

Reviews for Pattern and Chaos in Art, Science and Everyday Life: Critical Intersections and Creative Practice

'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