#geohumanities

[philipjnicholson]

GEOHUMANITIES JOURNAL ONLINE ART EXHIBITION

In my capacity as the editorial assistant of the AAG Journal GeoHumanities, I created an obline exhbition of the work of artists who have contributed to the journal. This involved contacting artists that had contributed to the journal and then publishing their work on a Wordpress website that I had created.

http://geohumanities.net

[materialsight]

Negative Capability: Imaging and Imagining Fundamental Science Through Productive Doubt

This article was published in the journal GeoHumanities in 2015 and outlines some of the formative thinking behind Material Sight.

Boulby 2013. Film still, single-channel digital video. © Fiona Crisp

Abstract

In 1817, English poet John Keats proposed the idea of negative capability as a desirable state of creativity that embraced uncertainty and doubt. Fiona Crisp, an artist and academic, has co-opted Keats’s phrase for an on-going, practice-based research project that uses non-documentary photography and film to interrogate extremes of visual and imaginative representation in fundamental science. Evolved through contact with a number of organisations, the project, Negative Capability, places artistic production in the spaces where experimental and theoretical science is performed, foregrounding the “site” or laboratory as a social, cultural, and political space where meaning is shaped and constructed rather than received or observed. Historically, Western culture has measured space and time through the body, but the twin extremes of macro- and microscale associated with fundamental physics and astronomy often operate beyond a lay public’s perceptual and cognitive grasp, when, for example, we attempt to approach the philosophical conundrum of dark matter or the possibility of assimilating eleven dimensions. Here Crisp proposes the use of visual, photographic means to approach that which is literally or conceptually imperceptible via the suspension of a desire for empirical knowledge to engender a productive state of unknowing or productive doubt. These ideas are explored in relation to an earlier, extended body of work, Subterrania (Crisp 2009–2010), that featured images taken in various underground locations where many of the conventional coordinates of photography (light, movement, geographic and cultural location) were either absent or suspended; through these works, Crisp evolves the idea of “impossible space” as a phenomenological entity and advocates the production of knowledge through looking.

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[placingculture]

In this episode I talk to Tim Cresswell, professor of history and international affairs and associate director for public humanities at Northeastern University (Boston, MA, USA), about becoming a poet, being a geographer and practicing creative geography. Our starting point is his article, “Geographies of poetry/poetries of geography,” cultural geographies 2014, Vol. 21 (1): 141-146 (read the abstract). 

Professor Cresswell has two published volumes of poetry, Soil (Penned in the Margins, 2013) and Fence (Penned in the Margins, 2015). You can read his poems in a number of other places online, including The Londonist, The Stockholm Review of Literature and Lemon Hound.  

Please note that the audio quality on this episode is variable. I apologize for the rough edges. Thanks for listening.

[petitsalon]

DHd Pre-Konferenz Workshop zum Thema GeoHumanities

DHd Pre-Konferenz Workshop zum Thema GeoHumanities

GeoHumanities sind zur Zeit voll im Trend. Spätestens seit dem Spatial Turn in den 1970er Jahren suchen wir ja alle irgendwie nach der wahrhaftigen Beschaffenheit des Raumes. Doch, ob die schönen Techniken der Datenaufbereitung und -visualisierung uns dieser Erkenntnis tatsächlich ein Stück näher bringen, konnte auch dieser Workshp nicht abschließend klären. Dafür wurden allerdings viele Ideen…

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