Visual weeknotes for 23-29 March covering the Walthamstow Marshes, Markfield Beam Engine, systems mapping, drawings of houses, the Joke’s On Us! exhibition at The Mill, Africa Express, and generally trying to return back to some kind of normality.
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Hastings Recovery: Visual week notes 22 March 2019
Visual weeknotes of week spent down in Hastings, where we recovered.
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Climbing from the depths: visual week notes 15 March 2019
Visual weeknotes for 9th-15th March covering the superb Mithras Temple in London, preparing for a highly participatory and experiential workshop on street design, dealing with anxiety through jokes, and preparing a participatory wall mural at a climbing centre.
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Speculations, sorrow and streets: visual week notes 8 March 2019
Visual weeknotes for 2nd - 8th March covering preparations for a Waltham Forest art show on speculative design, and then the experience of some very difficult news. Finally, dealing with the sorrow through making.
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A thread linking Mars, Crews Hill and Yonder: Visual week notes 1st March 2019
Visual weeknotes for 23rd Feb - 1st March, exploring paving in Crews Hill, Local geography and very-far-away geography (the exploits of the Mars Rover and Hubble telescope, as discussed at the Art (and/or) Science Reading Group), and experimenting in Policy Lab.
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Experiments to impose digital imagery onto clay & earth
Experiments to impose digital information (imagery, writing, data) onto clay. This process has been central for my art installation in the Central St Martins degree show. The ambition has been to developed a modern-day version of the ancient Babylonian cuneiforms, using digital data on geology and geography.
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Maps and data on southern Spain (ahead of Joya residency)
This is my second blog regarding my residency at Joya: Arte + Ecologia. My previous blog explored 'land & environmental art'. I am particularly interested in the relationship between the map and the terrain, and this blog focuses on mapping Joya - starting with Joya’s longitude & latitude: 37.763696, 2.070142.
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Land & environmental art (ahead of Joya Residency)
I was announced as University of Art London's Environment International Artist Residency Programme resident artist at Joya: arte + ecología in 2017. This blog includes some of my preparatory work for the Residency, taking place in the Autumn of that year.
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Alternative printing processes (ahead of Lumen residency)
A summary of some research undertaken on alternative printing/photography processes using the sun's energy - ahead of the 2017 Lumen Residency.
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Beckmann, S. (ongoing) Sistemas Efímeros. Image credit: Simon Beckmann
Early thoughts on art, science and impact in policy
An early blog on concepts, artworks and resources for my dissertation at Central St Martins, which was: Can art help in the translation of science to policy?
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Extract from ESA/NASA/JPL/University of Arizona Arial Views of Titan Around the Huygens Landing Site (2015).Source: http://sci.esa.int/science-e-media/img/2b/Titan-DISR-5altitudes-composite.jpe
Planet surfaces & our environment (ahead of Lumen Residency)
Which other planets and moons have we been to - and what can it tell us about our planet?
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Source: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/apr/17/receding-glacier-causes-immense-canadian-river-to-vanish-in-four-days-climate-change
Climate change research: memory, adaptation
Some ideas connecting climate change and memory. This seems to pivot around human experience and interaction with climate change, so have also included some maps on adaptive capacity/vulnerability to climate change. These ideas were developed ahead of the Imperial Science Festival event, although ultimately not used then. Storing them for a later time...
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Map without any projection. Source: http://www.legallandconverter.com/images/world.jpg
Research on map projections (ahead of Imperial Science Festival)
This blog highlights some light research on mapping projections conducted ahead of the Imperial Science Festival. Includes maps and links to the main projections including Peters, Mercator, Robinson, Winkel Triple.
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