{"id":1214,"date":"2012-05-15T00:42:59","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T07:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/?page_id=1214"},"modified":"2012-05-15T00:42:59","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T07:42:59","slug":"josephine-starrs-and-leon-cmielewski","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/transdisciplinary-imaging-conference-2012-2\/speakers-2012\/josephine-starrs-and-leon-cmielewski\/","title":{"rendered":"Josephine Starrs and Leon Cmielewski"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In the visual arts, re-rendering the familiar in new ways is a strategy that encourages audiences to reconsider cultural assumptions.\u00a0 In their recent work Starrs and Cmielewski manipulated NASA satellite images of the Ganges Delta in Bangladesh to embed the words \u2018<em>days like these\u2019<\/em> into the winding paths of the delta\u2019s multiple tributaries. \u00a0By changing and animating the seemingly trustworthy satellite imagery, the artists encouraged viewers to reconsider their assumptions about the environment.\u00a0 How \u2018natural\u2019 is nature?\u00a0 How \u2018manmade\u2019?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>Days like these<\/em> is part of a larger installation, <em>Incompatible Elements<\/em>, which can be seen as an interference of the omniscient Google world view that we have embraced as we increasingly defer to that oracle in our various networked gadgets. The installation creates an immersive audiovisual environment, that fosters engagement and contemplation about the impact of climate change on landscapes and waterways.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">After the work was first exhibited as a gallery installation, a still image from the animation was featured on the cover of the new academic science text book <em>The Future of the World\u2019s Climate<\/em>, edited by Ann Henderson-Sellers, published by Elsevier in December 2012.\u00a0 While the book is brimming with all manner of graphs and scientific visualisations, the artists\u2019 image was chosen for the cover as it managed to succinctly project the editor\u2019s vision for this scientific text book.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Is art still regarded as a means of simply \u2018illustrating\u2019 the final outputs of scientific experiments? This paper reflects on Starrs and Cmielewski\u2019s artworks in relation to scientific processes and products.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the visual arts, re-rendering the familiar in new ways is a strategy that encourages audiences to reconsider cultural assumptions.\u00a0 In their recent work Starrs and Cmielewski manipulated NASA satellite images of the Ganges Delta in Bangladesh to embed the words \u2018days like&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":538,"featured_media":0,"parent":1081,"menu_order":29,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1214","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/538"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1214"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1258,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1214\/revisions\/1258"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}