The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
antennae THE JOURNAL OF NATURE IN VISUAL CULTURE Publisher Name 20XX experimentexperiment Editor in Chief Giovanni Aloi – School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Sotheby’s Institute of Art Academic Board Steve Baker – University of Central Lancashire Melissa Boyde – University of Wollongong Ron Broglio – Arizona State University Matthew Brower – University of Toronto Eric Brown – University of Maine at Farmington Carol Gigliotti – Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver antennae Donna Haraway – University of California, Santa Cruz THE JOURNAL OF NATURE IN VISUAL CULTURE Susan McHugh – University of New England edited by Giovanni Aloi Brett Mizelle – California State University Claire Parkinson – Edge Hill University Cecilia Novero – University of Otago Jennifer Parker–Starbuck – Royal Holloway Annie Potts – University of Canterbury Ken Rinaldo – Ohio State University Antennae (founded in 2006) is the international, peer reviewed, academic Nigel Rothfels – University of Wisconsin journal on the subject of nature in contemporary art. Its format and Jessica Ullrich – Friedrich Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg contents are inspired by the concepts of ‘knowledge transfer’ and ‘widening Andrew Yang – School of the Art Institute of Chicago participation’. Three times a year, the Journal brings academic knowledge within a broader arena, one including practitioners and a readership that Global Contributors may not regularly engage in academic discussion. Ultimately, Antennae Sonja Britz / Tim Chamberlain / Conception Cortes / Lucy Davis / Amy Fletcher / Katja Kynast / Christine Marran / Carolina encourages communication and crossovers of knowledge amongst Parra / Zoe Peled / Julien Salaud / Paul Thomas / Sabrina Tonutti / Joanna Willenfelt artists, scientists, scholars, activists, curators, and students. In January Advisory Board 2009, the establishment of Antennae’s Senior Academic Board, Advisory Rod Bennison / Helen J. Bullard / Claude d’Anthenaise / Lisa Brown / Chris Hunter / Karen Knorr / Susan Nance / Caroline Board, and Network of Global Contributors has affirmed the journal as an Picard / Andrea Roe / David Rothenberg / Angela Singer / Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson indispensable research tool for the subject of environmental and nature studies. Contact the Editor in Chief at: [email protected] Visit Copy Editor and Design our website for more info and past issues: www.antennae.org.uk Erik Frank and Giovanni Aloi Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture (ISSN 1756-9575) is published triannually by AntennaeProject, Chicago. Contents copyright © 2019 by the respective authors, artists, and other rights holders. All rights in Antennae: The Jour- nal of Nature in Visual Culture and its contents reserved by their respective owners. Except as permitted by the Copy- right Act, including section 107 (fair use), or other applicable law, no part of the contents of Antennae: The Journal of Na- ture in Visual Culture may be reproduced without the written permission of the author(s) and/or other rights holders. By submitting your article for publication, you grant Antennae the right to reproduce the work and associated images in elec- tronic format or on paper format derived from the on-line work. If the work has been solicited or commissioned by Antennae, the intellectual property of such contribution rests with Antennae. If such category of work is published in Antennae, and this Front and back covers: Hyperbolic Jellyfish from the Crochet Coral Reef proect by Margaret and Christine Wertheim and also represent the first published instance for the work, a written request for a re-print needs to be forwarded to the Editor in the Institute for Figuring. Plastic bin-liner bags, 2007. Photo © Institute For Figuring. order to obtain authorisation for partial or full reproduction of the work. Interview questions written for Antennae and relative Theme page: Warm Winter, Reed+wood+data, (detail) by Nathalie Miebach. © Nathalie Miebach answers supplied by interlocutors become, upon publication, intellectual property of Antennae and a written request for a re- print needs to be forwarded to the Editor in order to obtain authorisation for partial or full reproduction in other publications. experiment antennae contents 14 27 48 106 119 135 Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr: Cooking Sex: In Pursuit of Variegation Smallpox Syndrome From ‘SciArt’ to ‘Art Science’ Squatting for SciArt text and images by Carolyn Angleton text and images by Pei-Ying Lin text by Jenny Rock and Sierra Adler text and images by Roberta Buiani Art and the Semi-Living Products and Porous Bodies interviewer: Giovanni Aloi Interviewees: Liz Flyntz and Byron Rich interviewee: Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr Interviewer: Marnie Benney This article situates the process of Pei-Ying Lin main research focuses The authors argue the importance of artistic enquiry within the realm on the combination of science and understanding the different forms of This essay examines the – seemingly In this exclusive interview with Byron Rich and Liz Flyntz, the of molecular biology and new human society through artistic art and science interaction, and that marginal – practice of occupying Giovanni Aloi, Oron Catts and collaborative artist duo responsible biotechnological practices. Using a methods. She is particularly precision of terminology matters for abandoned and/or neglected Ionat Zurr unpack the role played for Epicurean Endocrinology, discuss research-based format, the artist interested in building a common recognising respective validities and spaces (literally “squat- ting”) within by different cultural institutions, food, gender, sex, product design, investigates how variegation is discussion ground for different pushing interactions further into university and institutional spaces. research settings, cultural workers environmental degradation, and produced in plants and bacterium, cultural perspective regarding common practice. (artists, curators, and critics), popular communicating scientific knowledge and asks if natural biological elements that construct our media, and industry in their dealings to non-professional audiences. processes can be artistically echoed, individual perception of the world. with biotechnological artifacts. interfered with, and synthetically designed. 66 88 98 140 160 166 Move as Non-Human Metals Have Memory But You Didn’t Come Here to Reciprocal Biomimicry Eugenia Cheng: Crochet Coral Reef text and images by Melissa Dubbin & text and images by Jonathon Keats interviewer: Margaret Wertheim Migrators... Aaron S. Davidson Tell Stories! The Art of Logic interviewer: Giovanni Aloi text by Jim Supanick text and images by Helen J. Bullard Jonathon Keats has founded the text by Eugenia Cheng Reciprocal Biomimicry Initiative, A unique nexus of art, science, Recent works by artists Melissa An artist reflects on research-based Jim Supanic explores the enlistment a program dedicated to adapting Dr. Eugenia Cheng talks about geometry, and environmental Dubbin and Aaron S. Davidson practice, the conception of a special of the nonhuman animal as a human technologies to benefit other the challenges and rewards reflection, Crochet Coral Reef is an engage computing, geology and committee Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary conceptual model in the work of organisms. In this thought-provoking involved in teaching mathematics ever-evolving archipelago of woolen methods of forming sound. Here Arts and Science at the University of composer Alvin Lucier, and its article followed by an interview, Keats to art students and tells us how installations that not only emulates they present some thoughts related Wisconsin-Madison, and the privileges vestigial presence in the installations provides original opportunties to mathematics can change the world. the structures of natural reefs but also to their inquiries into stones, metals of working, learning, and teaching at of artist James Turrell. rethink the world we live in through enacts the evolutionary processes by and data infrastructures. the intersections of disciplines. philosophy and science. which living things evolve. 6 antennae 7 contents 184 190 197 Algorithmic Photography Laboratory Life COGITO in Space text and images by Alex May text and images by Andy Gracie text and images by Daniela de Paulis Algorithmic Photography is an This portfolio of work by Andy COGITO in Space is an experiential innovative technique developed by Gracie frames the notion of scientific narrative sending thoughts artist Alex May, which explores the experiment as both performative act into outer space as radio waves. concepts of motion and time within in which anticipation and intrigue The project exists both as a mobile contemporary digital photography. can play prominent roles, and as installation and as experiential producer of new phenomena. performative event staged inside the cabin of the Dwingeloo radio telescope in The Netherlands. 210 227 Goethe’s Color Theory: Dynamic Form Optics and Visual Poetry text and images by Gemma Anderson text and images by Bettina Forget In this essay, Gemma Anderson What happens to the scientific advances an original outline of the Right: detail from the Crochet Coral Reef proect by Marga- process when mathematics is relationship between Goethe’s ret and Christine Wertheim and the Institute For Figuring substituted with poetry? The German concept of morphology and Klee’s as installed at the London SouthBank. 2008. art. Central to this is the atypical Photo: Simon Greig poet and amateur scientist Johann