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Pattern and Chaos in Art, Science and Everyday Life

Critical Intersections and Creative Practice

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.
 

358 pages | 179 color plates | 6.69 x 9.61 | © 2023

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Table of Contents

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

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