Visualization Metaphors: Old & New
As with many other contemporary visualization techniques, the roots of arc diagrams and treemaps are considerably deeper than what they seem.
Cancer and Complexity in an Unfolding World
Simeon Nelson’s art installation, Anarchy in the Organism, featured four simultaneous algorithmic videos and eight-speaker ‘whispering windows’. The book that followed explored integrative ways of looking at disparate phenomena to confront the possible meanings of cancer.
The Emergence of Consciousness
Anna Dumitriu is an artist whose work blurs the boundaries between art and science with a strong interest in ethical issues raised by emerging technologies and their impact on society. The “Emergence of Consciousness” project was a collaboration with scientists at the Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics at The University of Sussex.
Lindsay Clarke Interview
In this exclusive interview for The Interalia Centre, Lindsay Clarke discusses themes of mythology and dreams in his work, as well as the transformative and ethical aspects of the imagination and how the imagination can be applied to all areas of life.
John Moat and The Gist of Arvon
‘Midwinter, the red sun on the brink of the tree far side Of the valley. We sit, she and I, in the frozen wide-eyed Silence, watch the living come-and-go of our breath.’ John Moat, extract from Coda 4. Read the full poem and listen to an audio recording on the Poetry Archive. John Moat is a novelist, poet and artist, who […]
Sacha Abercorn: Imagination in Education
“At this time, the world we live in is in great need of a balance between our heads and our hearts, so that we may connect to the ‘tap-root’ in us all by opening us to the realm of imagination, inspiration and integration.” Sacha Abercorn Sacha Abercorn is an innovator in creative education and the founder […]
Gaston Bachelard: The Imagination is a Tree
Man is an imagining being.Bachelard, Gaston. The Poetics of Reverie. 1960. Gaston Bachelard was one of the great minds of our times. His prodigious ability, displayed in twenty-three books and expressed in subtle, suggested prose has produced the single most important body of thought in the recovery of imagination in the twentieth century. Beginning his intellectual career […]
Imagination and Art
An artist with a deep sense of working with the ‘poetic imagination, Helen Garrett discusses her work and the ‘conversation’ she has with her work during its creation. She asks “do these expressions of creativity come from the imagination or is the imagination a portal that opens this space and allows the conversation to occur?”
Sound Work 01
Sound Work 1 is a collaboration between Paul Schütze and Andrew Hulme of O Yuki Conjugate. It is the first in a series of releases documenting their ongoing sound design for film and installation works. This was created for one part of the Red Riding trilogy, a television adaptation of David Peace’s neo-noir thriller quartet.
Spirit Stories
A ‘visual’ article from artist and storyteller, Jessica Hines, in which she uses the camera’s inherent quality as a recording device to explore illusion and to suggest truths that underlie the visible world. At the core of her work lies an inquisitive nature inspired by personal memory, experience and the unconscious mind.