Nothing new under the Sun . . .

"The quadrangle is the token of a new humanity. The square is to us what the cross was to the early Christians". 

Theo van Doesburg

Tate Liverpool visit 13th June 2008.

Vera Spencer - Artist versus Machine c.1954

Tate Etc.

"The paper card used to create this collage by the artist Vera Spencer may look unassuming, but the idea behind them is monumental. Around 1800, the French merchant and weaver Joseph Marie Jacquard first developed the automated loom, a machine which used perforated cards to store advanced weaving patterns. These perforations - a series of holes or not-holes - created the world's first large-scale system of binary data storage. Jacquard's loom went on to inspire British mathematician Charles Babbage to design the Analytical Engine, the first punch-card calculator and a precursor to the modern computer - the potential of which was grasped by the mathematician Ada Lovelace, regarded as the first computer programmer. . . . 

By modifying punched cards, Vera Spencer started up a material fight with the very tissue of automation. The same automation that today, with the invention of self-learning image and text-creating algorithms like Dall-E and ChatGPT, has reached the practices of artists and writers, challenging our very concept of creativity and ultimately threatening their work." p.99.

 

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creativity	automation material size-scale: loom <> punched card computer  tissue
Vera Spencer Artist versus Machine c.1954

Smith, A., on Vera Spencer Artist versus Machine c.1954, Summer 2023, Tate Etc., Issue 58, p.99.

Previous posts on W2tQ:
Ada Lovelace 

Tower blocks: Challenge young and older - Courtesy the Artist © Stephen Willats (Revisited)

LIVING WITH PRACTICAL REALITIES, 1978

"Stephen Willats aimed to explore the realities of living in a British tower block. The work centres on Mrs Moran, an elderly woman who lived at Skeffington Court in Hayes, West London. Willats photographed and interviewed Mrs Moran over the course of six months. The text in the work is based on these interviews. In his composition, Willats highlights the physical, social and economic constraints that she faced. Each panel also features a question. These invite the viewer to participate directly in Mrs Moran’s lived experiences."

Gallery label, September 2023

Tower blocks are an integral, defining structure in urban and city life. Governance, effective policy, accountability, high standards, public safety and duty of care must not be an after-thought. 

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© Stephen Willats	© Stephen Willats
© Stephen Willats	Grenfell Tower Inquiry Housing policy Housing provision Housing market 'Mobility' Ownership Private, rented Housing Assoc. ... Tower Blocks Life chances - 'Health career'

Stephen Willats

My source: notebook, as with -

https://hodges-model.blogspot.com/2023/08/rational-concepts-dilworth-1977.html

Plus, a previous post:

https://hodges-model.blogspot.com/2014/03/living-with-practical-realities-1978.html

5th March at Tate Liverpool, the exhibition: "Keywords. Art, Society and Culture in 1980s Britain" from 28 Feb 2014 to 11 May 2014.

See also (listed in the bibliography):
Iris Lohja, Yves Demazeau, Christine Verdier. A multi-agent system approach to dynamic ridesharing for older people: State-of-the-art work and preliminary design. 18èmes Rencontres des Jeunes Chercheurs en Intelligence Artificielle, RJCIA’20, Jun 2020, Angers, France. pp.52-59. ⟨hal-02897446⟩

"Rational Concepts" 1977 by Norman Dilworth

"Rational Concepts" 1977 by Norman Dilworth. Tate
© Norman Dilworth

Hodges' model: seeking rational* concepts to deliver person-centred, integrated care and make sense of subjective and objective realities.

ARTIST Norman Dilworth 1931 – 2023 [Born in Orrell, Wigan]
MEDIUM Screenprint on paper
DIMENSIONS Image: 600 × 600 mm
COLLECTION Tate
ACQUISITION Purchased 1981
REFERENCE P07424

[NOT ON DISPLAY]

Tate: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/dilworth-rational-concepts-p07424

*Irrational too.

I sketched Dilworth's image on 5th March at Tate Liverpool, the exhibition: "Keywords. Art, Society and Culture in 1980s Britain" from 28 Feb 2014 to 11 May 2014.

Otobong Nkanga: From Where I Stand - c/o Tate St Ives

"From where you stand, what is your own position?

How do you look at something?

What is the story that comes out of what you've seen?"

Otobong Nkanga.

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	Otobong Nkanga, Infinite Yield, 2015. Tapestry; 133 2/5 × 68 9/10 in. (288 × 175 cm);  © Museum of Modern Art, Antwerp.

I've a post still to follow from my trip to Dundee in the summer which included the V&A. On my four day visit last month to Cornwall I visited St Ives and the Tate. I really enjoyed this exhibition with its ecological, colonialism, consumerism, topological and science references. The exhibition ends on 5 January but there's another post for the new year.

Image source https://mcachicago.org/Calendar/2018/03/Talk-Otobong-Nkanga-With-Omar-Kholeif

Merry Christmas to All: Peace.

Ancient of Days: A Newtonian Compass [?]

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William Blake Ancient of Days Europe a Prophecy Copy B (Printed 1794)	William Blake, Newton 1795–c.1805
?	?

See also and image sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blake

http://www.blakearchive.org/search/?search=GOD

https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/william-blake-artist
[ Visited last month 1830-2200 ]

after Mondrian: Journey with Hodges through Politics, Sciences and Intrapersonal ...

Prompt: Tate email

Subject: "Journey with Mondrian through Paris, London and New York"


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Piet_Mondriaan	Cubo Grande
Photograph by Dominique Mulhem.	https://www.reddit.com/user/sverdrupian/

Image sources (from top left clockwise):
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/83/Piet_Mondriaan.jpg
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/ordep13/
http://www.fondationtanagra.com/en/article/mily-doll-by-gege/page/but-darling 
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/2ocwh3/world_map_in_the_manner_of_piet_mondrian_948730/