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Hamblyn, Richard; Callanan, Martin John

 
9780903305044: Data Soliloquies
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ISBN 10: 0903305046 ISBN 13: 9780903305044
Editorial: Slade School of Fine Art University College London, 2009

Críticas

...Despite "belonging"; to the field of art and humanities, neither Hamblyn nor Callanan are strangers to science and technology. Richard Hamblyn is an environmental writer and historian who has developed a particular interest in clouds, and Martin John Callanan is an artist whose remarkably conceptual work merges art and different types of media. This may be the cause that Data Soliloquies is by no means a shy penetration into a foreign field of knowledge but a solid discourse which presents a richly documented critique of the apparently ineffective ways in which scientists have made society aware of such a crucial problem as that of climate change. The title of the book has been borrowed for a term that Jon Adams, researcher at the London School of Economics, coined to refer to Michael Crichton's novels, who uses "scientific"; facts to give his imaginative plots an aura of credibility. With this reference, the authors state that the way scientific data is presented actually constitutes a narrative, an uncontested monologue: ";...scientific graphs and images have powerful stories to tell, carrying much in the way of overt and implied narrative content (...) these stories are rarely interrupted or interrogated."... (extract), Pau Waelder, Furtherfield, February 2010 --http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=377

Reseña del editor

Data Soliloquies is a book about the extraordinary cultural fluidity of scientific data. A wide array of graphs, charts, computer models and other forms of visual advocacy have become inescapable fixtures of public science presentations, though they are often treated as if they were neutral `found objects' rather than elaborate narrative constructions containing high levels of statistical uncertainty. Through a mix of essays and artworks, this witty and engaging book -- the result of a collaboration between Richard Hamblyn and Martin John Callanan during their terms as writer and artist in residence at the UCL Environment Institute -- examines the theatricality of scientific data display, while critiquing some of the poorly designed statistical wallpaper that surrounds so much public science debate.

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Editorial
Slade School of Fine Art University College London
Año de publicación
2009
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0903305046
ISBN 13 
9780903305044
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
112
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