Monday Morning Eye Opener, July 25, 2016

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Negligent Eye

This presentation was both an illustrated lecture and a published paper presented at the IMPACT 9 Conference Printmaking in the Post-Print Age, Hangzhou China 2015. It was an extension of the exhibition catalogue essay for the Bluecoat Gallery Exhibition of the same name. In 2014 I curated an exhibition The Negligent Eye at the Bluecoat Gallery in Liverpool as the result of longstanding interest in scanning and 3D printing and the role of these in changing the field of Print within Fine Art Practice. In the aftermath of curatingshow I have continued to reflect on this material with reference to the writings of Vilém Flusser and Hito Steyerl. The work in the exhibition came from a wide range of artists of all generations most of whom are not explicitly located within Printmaking. Whilst some work did not use any scanning technology at all, a shared fascination with the particular translating device of the systematizing ‘eye’ of a scanning digital video camera, flatbed or medical scanner was expressed by all the work in the show. Through writing this paper I aim to extend my own understanding of questions, which arose from the juxtapositions of work and the production of the accompanying catalogue. The show developed in dialogue with curators Bryan Biggs and Sarah-Jane Parsons of the Bluecoat Gallery who sent a series of questions about scanning to participating artists. In reflecting upon their answers I will extend the discussions begun in the process of this research. A kind of created attention deficit disorder seems to operate on us all today to make and distribute images and information at speed. What value do ways of making which require slow looking or intensive material explorations have in this accelerated system? What model of the world is being constructed by the drive to simulated realities toward ever-greater resolution, so called high definition? How are our perceptions of reality being altered by the world-view presented in the smooth colourful ever morphing simulations that surround us? The limitations of digital technology are often a starting point for artists to reflect on our relationship to real-world fragility. I will be looking at practices where tactility or dimensionality in a form of hard copy engages with these questions using examples from the exhibition. Artists included in the show were: Cory Arcangel, Christiane Baumgartner, Thomas Bewick, Jyll Bradley, Maurice Carlin, Helen Chadwick, Susan Collins, Conroy/Sanderson, Nicky Coutts, Elizabeth Gossling, Beatrice Haines, Juneau Projects, Laura Maloney, Bob Matthews, London Fieldworks (with the participation of Gustav Metzger), Marilène Oliver, Flora Parrott, South Atlantic Souvenirs, Imogen Stidworthy, Jo Stockham, Wolfgang Tillmans, Alessa Tinne, Michael Wegerer, Rachel Whiteread, Jane and Louise Wilson. Scanning, Art, Technology, Copy, Materiality.

Monday Morning Eye Opener, August 1, 2016

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Analisi della sicurezza di alcune piste ciclabili dell'area urbana di Bologna per mezzo della tecnologia Mobile Eye Detector

Fino ad oggi la mobilità urbana si è affidata in particolar modo alla motorizzazione privata. Occorre considerare anche altre alternative di trasporto per garantire una mobilità più sostenibile ed efficace all’interno delle nostre aree urbane. Una di queste alternative è costituita dalla bicicletta, che deve essere considerata un’autentica alternativa di trasporto, che può facilmente contribuire, assieme ad altre, a ridurre l’attuale inefficiente dipendenza dall’automobile. La progettazione dei percorsi ciclo-pedonali richiede collegamenti sicuri, diretti, ben segnalati e confortevoli, che assicurino una mobilità indipendente e protetta per tutti. In questo lavoro di tesi stato proposto un questionario che ha lo scopo di dare un ritratto immediato degli utenti ciclabili che percorrono i campi prova analizzati, confrontare i risultati ottenuti e verificare quali parametri sono ritenuti di maggiore importanza per l’utente medio. Nella seconda fase e punto focale di tale lavoro di ricerca è stata svolta un’attenta analisi delle possibili scelte e problematiche di un particolare caso reale. In particolare, sono stati valutati gli elementi che il conducente del velocipede scansiona con lo sguardo durante la guida, cercando informazioni significative per la posizione spaziale e temporale in cui si trova. La ricerca è stata condotta mediante l’utilizzo della strumentazione Mobile Eye-XG che permette il rilievo in continuo dello sguardo dei conducenti durante la guida. Il campo prova riguarda il percorso “Sabotino”, composto da due itinerari situati all’interno dell’area urbana di Bologna, la Tangenziale Ovest delle biciclette e la “ciclabile vecchia” Sabotino. Dalle informazioni ricavate dall’analisi, si è cercato infine di ipotizzare delle possibili ed efficaci migliorie, che possano incentivare l’uso della bicicletta e la sicurezza nei confronti della mobilità lenta, migliorando le prestazioni della pista e aumentando gli standard.

Monday Morning Eye Opener, August 8, 2016

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