Posts Tagged ‘Air’
A Calamitous Plague Cloud Descends
December 8, 2010
Earlier today I popped out to deposit a canary in Ford Park to gather more data. As I felt I needed the exercise I took a walk over hoad hill on my way to pick up some more wool from Loopy’s in Ulverston. Coming down off the hill into the town I immediately became aware [...]
2010 | strct | Tags: Air, Atmospheres, Cartography, Olfaction, Ruskin, Stench, WalkingComments (0)
Atmospheric Proxemics
December 8, 2010
Some notes on the broader concerns of the invisible cartographies project: There are two sides to the invisible dynamics of the landscape revealed by this project. The first presents these dynamisms as components or qualities of the landscape as an objective reality, as fluctuations that are part of the landscape itself and not simply perceived [...]
2010 | strct | Tags: Air, Atmospheres, Cartography, Ecology, gnuplot, Proxemics, Ruskin, WalkingComments (0)
Ruskin and the Nephological Medium
December 6, 2010
In carrying out research into the history of air while working on this residency, Ruskin came up a number of times, which is not surprising giving the location of the residency. I know very little of Ruskin, but have found his meteorological speculations fascinating since digging out his two lectures on The Storm Cloud of [...]
2010 | strct | Tags: Air, Atmospheres, Ecology, Environmental Data, Nephological Synthesis, RuskinComments (0)
A Mysterious Ravine
December 2, 2010
A static canary was left in Ford Park to see what invisible and diffuse bodies were passing through it over a 24 hour period (see invisible.folly.co.uk/ford-park/). After 24 hours in the park, here’s the data it gathered on general fluctuations in airquality: Mostly there are only minor fluctuations, apart from the huge ravine that occurs [...]
2010 | strct | Tags: Air, Atmospheres, Environmental Data, gnuplot, PythonComments (0)
Ford Park
November 30, 2010
After a spot of litter collecting with the volunteers at Ford Park this morning, we decided on a couple of good locations for the static canaries (the name given to the sniffers by Lanternhouse’s Programme Director Claire Benbow). This particular version of the device is designed to be left for long periods in one place, [...]
2010 | strct | Tags: Air, Atmospheres, Environmental DataComments (1)
Terraforming
November 24, 2010
This afternoon was spent working on further power saving measures and then another test run up the hoad and down through Ulverston town centre. After getting back to Lanternhouse and thawing my icy fists, I thought it might be nice to try out some methods of combining the elevation data with the data gathered from [...]
2010 | strct | Tags: Air, Atmospheres, Cartography, Environmental Data, WalkingComments (0)
Hoad Plots
November 19, 2010
After spending yesterday evening working on a low power version of the sniffers, the sun finally shone on Ulverston today, so I did a quick test run up to the hoad monument which towers above the town. The images above only really show half a plot as I broke the power cable at the top, [...]
2010 | strct | Tags: Air, Cartography, Environmental DataComments (1)
Vital Compositions and Monistic Contractions
November 19, 2010
There have been a lot of ideas bouncing around since starting this project, a few of them are briefly discussed below and will hopefully be elaborated upon in the near future. These points are mostly based upon the idea of air and how it has been imagined since antiquity. The desire to work with airs [...]
2010 | strct | Tags: Air, Atmospheres, MonismComments (3)
Mapping Miasma
November 19, 2010
Above is Hector Gavin’s mapping of The Disease Mist Overhanging Bethnal Green in the Year 1847, depicting the harmful miasmas which cloaked this particular district of London in a gaseous body of subtle and despicable influence, here depicted in darkness. Further details on Gavin’s project of sanitary reformation and the cartography of disease can be [...]
