The Toxic Clouds of 9/11: A Looming Health Disaster. Naturaleza en llamas: 20 años de incendios en Áreas Protegidas de Venezuela. Cerosetenta, Bellingcat y Forensic Architecture se unen para mapear la violencia policial y reconstruir crímenes en protestas en Colombia - LatAm Journalism Review. Una nueva plataforma: Mapa de violencia policial en Colombia - Bellingcat. Protestas en Colombia: videos muestran violencia policial. 100 Years of Tear Gas. So how did this substance, first deployed in war, make it from the trenches to the streets?
The process began before World War I ended. While troops were still returning home, active and retired military officers began lobbying to keep their chemical-weapons inventions. Gas Lacrimógeno: Investigación – Amnesty International. : Masanao Abe: Cloudgraphy. Cool Clouds That Look like They Should Be Spelling Something, but They Don’t – Fotomuseum Winterthur. Praxis Films. Artist’s Travels. Cloud Behavior is a study of clouds through photographs, drawings, essays, and interviews. During summer 2018, Buhl photographed clouds on medium-format film and experimented with the images in the darkroom.
Buhl’s cloud photographs connect to historical thinking about clouds, to scientific research on cloud behaviour, and to the mystical and meteorological contemplation of clouds by August Strindberg. Today, climate researchers study cloud behaviour to understand how global warming affects the movements of clouds and how, conversely, the movements of clouds might affect global warming. Strindberg and climate researchers share an interest in reading signs and omens in the clouds – and do so with the aid of photography and other means of visualization. This connection is unfolded in various ways in the texts of the book. Nanna Debois Buhl. Cloud Behavior Artist’s book (2020) English text, 144 pages, 24×29 cm Edition: 900 copies Text: Nanna Debois Buhl, Dehlia Hannah, Jan Olaf Härter, Ida Marie Hede, and Andrea Fjordside Pontoppidan Design: Alexis Mark Published by Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology and Humboldt BooksBuy online Nanna Debois Buhl’s artist’s book Cloud Behavior is a study of clouds through photographs and drawings, essays, and interviews.
During summer 2018, Buhl photographed clouds on medium-format film and experimented with the images in the darkroom. Objekt #63 / Arnold Schönberg: Kriegs-Wolken Tagebuch. Glifosato: lo ético y lo científico de una mala decisión. Wolkenstudien. Cloud Studies. Études des nuages. The Movement of Clouds around Mount Fuji. Nature–Culture–Sustainability Studies. PROJECT ICEWORM - GUP Magazine. Curator, critic and artist Duncan Wooldridge reflects on Anastasia Mityukova’s (ongoing) Project Iceworm.
In the present moment, in a culture with almost simultaneous communication, we have begun to sense that distance has virtue. The proximity of our pictures brings to the continuous present an endless observation, a continuous recording, with place overlapping and becoming indistinct. Is it possible to imagine what arises from taking distance, being elsewhere? What are the potentials of being at a remove? Anastasia mityukova. Project Iceworm, Anastasia Mityukova. Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil - SIMPOSIO TIERRAS RARAS. Kuannersuit / Kvanefjeld. Geographical imaginations. I’m still putting together the programme for my graduate course this term (I’ll post the full outline under the TEACHING tab as soon as it’s ready), and I plan to spend some time on what I’m calling Militarized vision and imag(in)ing modern war.
Images have become increasingly important to the conduct of war; in Precarious Life Judith Butler argues that ‘there is no way to separate, under present historical conditions, the material reality of war from those representational regimes through which it operates and which rationalize its own operation.’ This requires us to think carefully about two, closely related issues – media representations of military violence and its effects, and the ways in which militaries have incorporated political technologies of vision into their operations.
I’m thinking of beginning with these two readings: This richly illustrated book is a visual, theoretical and historical resource about the photography of war, and how images are used as instruments of war. Particles in Space - Len Lye (1966) The Len Lye Foundation - Particles in Space, 1980. Particles in Space, 1979, 4 mins Lye completed his last great film a few months before his death at the age of 78.
The film returned to the black-and-white techniques of Free Radicals. Lye created what he called “vibrant little images” or “zig-zags” with a sense of “zizz”. The clusters of small scratches gave the film a unique texture – the images looked rough but were in fact extremely subtle. BOMB CLOUD ATLAS — Science Gallery Dublin. Student Project: The Types of Clouds and What They Mean. [Mushroom cloud from atomic bomb test April 22, 1952, Yucca Flat, Nevada]
‘Study of Clouds’, Joseph Mallord William Turner, c.1822–3. For Hiroshima's survivors, memories of the bomb are impossible to forget. Nine days after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, after his mother and year-old brother died and his home was incinerated, seven-year-old Masaaki Tanabe watched his father slip away.
His last words: “I see no future as an army officer.” An implacable enemy of America, Tanabe’s father died with his sword at his side. Tanabe’s grandfather wanted to keep his son’s sword, but the occupation forces came and wrested it from him. The anatomy of a mushroom cloud. By Eileen Patterson Think “nuclear weapon,” and you probably picture a mushroom cloud—a stem supporting a puffy head.
But photos from U.S. atmospheric nuclear tests (1945–1963) show more than the basic stem-and-head structure. Buster Charlie; October 30, 1951; Nevada Test Site. The basic mushroom. ‘Two Studies of Clouds’, Joseph Mallord William Turner, c.1819. ‘Rain Clouds Approaching over a Landscape’, Joseph Mallord William Turner, c.1822–40. Catalogue entry The low, billowing cumulonimbus-type cloud formations here are the most extensively and carefully worked among the examples in the present subsection, while embryonic landscape forms are evoked through the varied application of broad brushstrokes.
Tate D25453 (Turner Bequest CCLXIII 330), now badly faded, may originally have had something of the same effect. There is a presumably fortuitous echo after more than two decades of the dramatic skies of Turner’s early seascapes in oil, such as Dutch Boats in a Gale: Fishermen Endeavouring to Put their Fish on Board (‘The Bridgewater Sea Piece’), exhibited in 1801 (private collection, on loan to the National Gallery, London),1 with its contrasting narrow strip of sunlit horizon. There are unrelated rough architectural elevations in pencil on the verso (D41486; Turner Bequest CCLXIII 337v). Movimientos del aire, Etienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904) fotógrafo de los fluidos. La Invención de Marey. Movimientos del aire, Etienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904) fotógrafo de los fluidos. Subject Terms: Clouds in art. - YCBA Collections Search Search Results. Harun Farocki, Fuego inextinguible, 1969. Malevich, Suprematism and Aerial Photography. 1This paper is an initial attempt to sketch out what a cultural history of the aerial view might look like, and to establish some questions that could motivate and inform such a study.
It presents only a partial itinerary for a research programme, an attempt to mark out and think about some of the points with which a wide-ranging account of the aerial view would have to deal. My interest in the topic stems from my feeling that the aerial view has gained a new centrality in recent years – as both an object of criticism and an interpretative tool – within the humanities, and that this new prominence has been accompanied by the establishment of a repetitive, normative account of the aerial view, one that interprets it as the characteristic technology and emblem of an acquisitive imperious and transcendent modern subjectivity. 2Some initial questions, then, with which to begin. 6In contrast to the telescope, the microscope requires that one gazes down in aerial fashion into the eye-piece.
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