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Glucksman: Boolean Expressions, 2015 - Maths Happens: Performativity in the Art of Numbers by Dr. Lucy Dawe-Lane

 

Publication Details:

BOOLEAN EXPRESSIONS: Contemporary Art and Mathematical Data, presented at The Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork, Ireland, 23 July – 8 November 2015. Essays by Fiona Kearney, Lucy Dawe Lane and Brian Fay.

 

For an overview of the exhibition see the link https://vimeo.com/137620854.

 

Please find below the essay by CCAD Fine Art Lecturer Dr.Lucy Dawe-Lane:

Maths Happens: Performativity in the Art of Numbers

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Performance Drawing: New Practices since 1945

 

Authors: Maryclare Foá, Jane Grisewood, Birgitta Hosea, and Carali McCall

What is 'performance drawing'? When does a drawing turn into a performance? Is the act of drawing in itself a performative process, whether a viewer is present or not? Through conversation, interviews and essays, the authors illuminate these questions, and what it might mean to perform, and what it might mean to draw, in a diverse and expressive contemporary practice since 1945.

Featuring a wide range of international artists, this book presents pioneering practitioners, alongside current and emerging artists. The combination of experiences and disciplines in the expanded field has established a vibrant art movement that has been progressively burgeoning in the last few years. The Introduction contextualises the background and identifies contemporary approaches to performance drawing. As a way to embrace the different voices and various lenses in producing this book, the authors combine individual perspectives and critical methodology in the five chapters.

Publisher: Bloomsbury

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/performance-drawing-9781788313841/

To mark one year since publication in 2020, artists and co-authors Maryclare Foá, Birgitta Hosea, and Carali McCall are working together on a residency at Centre for Recent Drawing (London UK) to generate new ideas and extend their initial exploration of works at the intersection of drawing and performance. To find out more visit: https://drawntogether.wordpress.com 

 

Journal of Illustration

 

First published in 2014 with special issue 8.1 out now!

Illustration is a rapidly evolving field with an excitingly broad scope. Despite its cultural significance and rich history, illustration has rarely been subject to deep academic scrutiny. The Journal of Illustration provides an international forum for scholarly research and investigation of a range of cultural, political, philosophical, historical, and contemporary issues, in relation to illustration. The journal encourages new critical writing on illustration, associated aspects of visual communication, and the role of the illustrator as visualizer, thinker and facilitator, within a wide variety of disciplines and professional contexts.

Publisher: Intellect

https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-illustration

 

 

Serial Drawing - Space, Time and the Art Object 

 

23rd September 2021

Serial Drawing written by Joe Graham offers a timely and rigorous exploration of a relatively little-researched art form. Serial drawings – artworks that are presented as singular works but are made up of distributed parts – are studied in fresh, contemporary terms with a novel philosophical approach, emphasizing both the way in which this unique form of visual art exists in the world, and how it is encountered by the beholder.

Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/serial-drawing-9781350166653/

 

 

 

Still image taken from video by Jenna Hartel

Pictorial Metaphors

 

23rd August 2021

Created by: Jenna Hartel, Ph.D., Associate Professor | Faculty of Information | University of Toronto

A perennial question in Information Science is, "What is Information?" After reviewing definitions from the literature, this Youtube video presents an alternative *visual* approach based upon the draw-and-write technique. "Pictorial metaphors" drawn by people are used as a source for new insights into information as Earth, Web, Tree, Cloud, Box, Light Bulb, and Eye. A conclusion claims that the visual perspective is more accessible, artful, sensual, and spacious than long-standing definitions made of words.

 

Explore the concept of 'pictorial metaphors' by following link below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t213bFR4Oe4

 

 

The Being of Drawing

 

7th July 2021

Written by Joe Graham this book claims that drawing operates as an endless fourfold interplay of Acts, Object, Ideas and Promise. Drawing is that which gathers the various acts of drawing by a drawer, the physical object such acts produce, the various ideas which are therein conveyed and the potential for further drawings to be brought into being. Drawing works because it promises the element of surprise to both drawers and viewers alike. A promise which is kept by all those who continue to draw, both in and over time. Series editor (Drawing theory): Gordon Shrigley. Designed by Christian Küsters of CHK Design, London.

Publisher: Marmalade Publishers of Visual Theory, 2021

https://www.centralbooks.com/publishers/MARMAL/being-of-drawing-the.html#horizontalTab1

 

 

 

Article published by Dr Helen Farrell in Peer Reviewed Journal Drawing: Research, Theory Practice

 

30 June 2021

CCAD Fine Art Lecturer Dr Helen Farrell has published an article and 6 drawings in the journal Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice (Volume 6 No.1) entitled ‘Rereading Merleau-Ponty through the Language of Drawing’. For staff and students of MTU all issues of the journal are available now to view online through the MTU library website, a hard copy will also be available in the Crawford library.

Abstract

In order to present visual art as a paradigm for philosophy, Maurice Merleau-Ponty investigated the creative processes of artists whose work corresponded closely with his philosophical ideas. His essays on art are widely valued for emphasizing process over product, and for challenging the primacy of the written word in all spheres of human expression. While it is clear that he initially favoured painting, in his late work Merleau-Ponty began to develop a much deeper understanding of the complexities of how art is made in parallel with his advancement of a new ontology. In this article I focus on the materiality of Merleau-Ponty’s work in progress through an examination of his unfinished manuscript and working notes in the Bibliothèque national de France (BnF) in Paris. Through a reflection on the potential of these archive documents to reveal new insights into his working processes, I establish a connection to Merleau-Ponty’s own embodied thought mechanisms to uncover comparative methods of enquiry to those used in drawing practice.

Publisher: Intellect

https://www.intellectbooks.com/drawing-research-theory-practice

 

 

 

Article published by Chloe Masi from Birmingham University in Peer Reviewed Journal Drawing:Research,Theory, Practice

 

30 June 2021

Chloe Masi has published an article in the journal Drawing:Research, Theory, Practice (Volume 6 No.1) entitled 'Drawing for learning: A review of the literature'

Abstract

Drawing continues to be relevant despite the ongoing developments in digital image-making technologies, artificial intelligence and virtual reality. The reasons for this relevance are related to the potential of drawing for promoting the learning process as well as the development of creativity in different disciplines. In the light of this relevance, several studies have investigated the role of drawing in the learning process. These studies identified a range of learning mechanisms, abilities and skills that the drawing process can enhance, such as visual thinking, connecting ideas, intuition, focus, embodiment, translating experience, perceiving and ideation. These studies also provide a previous contribution for understanding the potential of the drawing process; however, these studies focus on isolated learning mechanisms, and a comprehensive theoretical framework characterizing the relative role of the different mechanisms is currently missing. In the light of this gap, this article reviews the literature on the learning mechanisms promoted by drawing. The identified learning mechanisms are summarized in a theoretical framework that describes the three main steps of the drawing process: perception, elaboration and production. Academics can use this theoretical framework for the design of teaching and learning activities, while practitioners can use the framework to be aware of the intellectual work involved in each step of their artistic production.

Publisher: Intellect

https://www.intellectbooks.com/drawing-research-theory-practice