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Where is the wind when it is not blowing? In the new book The Wind
Tunnel Model, artist-scientist Florian Dombois and his fellow
researchers propose new forms of interaction between various
artistic disciplines as well as between arts and sciences. Rather
than defining a problem or a topic, around which people from the
involved disciplines group, Dombois has established a wind tunnel
laboratory with an empty test platform at Zurich University of the
Arts. It is an architecture that turns its back on us and forms
something invisible, a disturbingly concrete secondary model. The
book features essays by Dombois and his collaborators at the
laboratory. They reflect not only on this idea for a new
transdisciplinary collaboration. They also pledge for an exchange
between verbal and non-verbal thinking modelled on the man engine,
a mechanism of reciprocating ladders and stationary platforms
installed in mines to assist the miners' journeys to and from the
working levels. For Dombois, the device is the key metaphor for his
team and their work at the artistic wind tunnel.
Two important essays on Étienne-Jules Marey published for the
first time in English alongside his breathtaking images of moving
air and smoke. Featuring more than one hundred and fifty
photographs and images, Movements of Air reprints the breathtaking
pictures of Étienne-Jules Marey—images captured between 1899 and
1901 during his scientific experiments with moving air and
smoke—and complements them with essays by Georges Didi-Huberman
and Laurent Mannoni. Mannoni begins by reflecting on
Marey’s experimental approach. As the founder of the “graphic
method,” Marey was also the developer of an aerodynamic wind
tunnel. His experiments’ photographs of fluid motion introduced a
whole world of movements and turbulences, and fluids, and
influenced generations of scientists and artists alike.
Didi-Huberman expands on the philosophical debates surrounding
these aesthetically and technically instructive images. Even though
Marey’s main interest was graphic information, Didi-Huberman
shows us how the flow of all things drew this ingenious
experimenter to a photographic practice that creates drags,
streaks, expansions, and visual dances. Marey’s wind tunnel
photographs were also themselves causes of turbulence in the
history of images. The artists Dombois and Oeschger explore these
“graphical” vortices of the last 120 years, providing at the
end of the book a collage from historical and contemporary material
interlaced with their own image-making in Dombois’s wind tunnel
at the Zurich University of the Arts.
The 21st century is unthinkable without its past of unrestricted
scaling in almost any way of life. A key driver of technological
progress is mankind's ability to imagine things at a larger, or
smaller, scale; processes at higher, or slower, speed, or to
virtually apply more or less energy to something. This ability has
been evident ever since we began to produce and represent art, yet
it gained an entirely different dimension with the onset of
industrialisation in the 19th century. This new book collects
essays by fourteen artists, designers, engineers, and scholars.
They discuss the significance of scaling for their respective
discipline and field of research. The initial point of a
trans-disciplinary symposium at Zurich University of the Arts in
2015, on which the contributions in this book are based, was the
camera. It combines fast and slow motion, and film speed - already
three dimensions of scaling. The possibility to copy and print
taken images adds a fourth one, replication, making this apparatus
that seems to merely depict our world appear to be something of a
much larger scale: a machine to produce thought and imagination.
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