Knitted images : cartographies

Through the making of these works I research teachers. Here, I push a/r/tography (Irwin & Springgay 2008) into ca/r/tography - a process of mapping that is multitexural, mutable; moving between theorization, creation, process, research, and mapped by me as I wander between artist, researcher, teacher...

Dark Cartographies

‘Dark Cartographies’ is a slowly evolving meditation upon seasonal change, life after light and the occluding shadows of human influence. Through creating experiences of the many ‘times of a night’ the work allows participants to experience deep engagement with rich spectras of hidden place and sound. By amplifying and shining light upon a myriad of lives lived in blackness, ‘Dark Cartographies’ tempts us to re-understand seasonal change as actively-embodied temporality, inflected by our climate-changing disturbances. ‘Dark Cartographies’ uses custom interactive systems, illusionary techniques and real time spatial audio that draw upon a rich array of media, including seasonal, nocturnal field recordings sourced in the Far North Queensland region and detailed observations of foliage & flowering phases. By drawing inspiration from the subtle transitions between what Europeans named ‘Summer’ and ‘Autumn’, and by including the body and its temporal disturbances within the work, ‘Dark Cartographies’ creates compellingly immersive environments that wrap us in atmospheres beyond sight and hearing. ‘Dark Cartographies’ is a dynamic new installation directed & choreographed by environmental cycles; alluding to a new framework for making works that we call ‘Seasonal’. This powerful, responsive & experiential work draws attention to that which will disappear when biodiverse worlds have descended into an era of permanent darkness – an ‘extinction of human experience’. By tapping into the deeply interlocking seasonal cycles of environments that are themselves intimately linked with social, geographical & political concerns, participating audiences are therefore challenged to see the night, their locality & ecologies in new ways through extending their personal limits of perception, imagery & comprehension.

Cartographies of Differences:Interdisciplinary Perspectives

The co-edited collection investigates the processes of learning how to live with individual and groups differences in the 21century and examines the ambivalences of contemporary cosmopolitanism. The contributions focus on visual, normative and cultural embodiments of differences, examining conflicts at local sites that are connected by the processes of Europeanization and globalization.

Charting Cartographies of Resistance: Line of Flight in Women Artists’ Narratives

In this paper I chart lines of flight in women artist’s narratives. In focusing on the complex interrelations between the social milieus of education and art, what I suggest is that they should be analysed as an assemblage where power relations and forces of desire are constantly at play in creating conditions of possibility for women to resist, imagine themselves becoming other and for new possibilities in their lives to be actualised. As a novel approach to social ontology the theory of assemblages offers an analytics of social complexity that accounts for open configurations, continuous connections and unstable hierarchies, structures and axes of difference. In reconsidering resistance as immanent in dispositifs of power and assemblages of desire, what I finally argue is that women artists’ narratives contribute to the constitution of minor knowledges and create archives of radical futurity.

Book review. Cartographies of Time: a history of the timeline.

A review of 'Cartographies of Time: a history of the timeline' by Daniel Rosenberg and Anthony Grafton. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Architectural Press, 2010. (272pp. ISBN: 9781568987637). Keywords: timeline, chronographics

Re-Visioning bisexuality: rhizomatic cartographies of sex, gender and sexuality

This thesis is a sociological study of bisexuality and gender in Australian society. A theoretical frame informed by philosophers Deleuze and Guattari is deployed to analyse data from 47 interviews. It finds that the diversity of participants’ bisexual lives challenge conventional dichotomous understandings of heterosexual/homosexual, man/woman and masculine/feminine.

The Cinema of Raul Ruiz: Impossible Cartographies

This book is the first major academic engagement with the idiosyncratic Chilean-born filmmaker Raul Ruiz. It examines his work from the context of Allende's Chile to France and Europe from the 1970s, examining such themes as aesthetics and politics, simulation, multiplicity and theories of the image

Cinematic and Aesthetic Cartographies of Subjective Mutation

This article examines the use of cinema as a mapping of subjective mutation in the work of Deleuze, Gauttari and Berardi. Drawing on Deleuze's distinction between the reduction of the art-work to the symptom and the idea of art as symptomatology, the article focuses on Berardi's use of cinematic examples, posing the question in each case of to what extent they function as symptomatologies or mere symptoms of cultural and subjective mutations in examples ranging from Bergman's Persona to Van Sant's Elephant to finish on speculations about Fincher's The Social Network as a critical engagement with subjective mutation in the 21st Century.

HYSCORES : Cartographies hyperspectrales appliquées aux écosystèmes coralliens et à leur état de santé.

En 2013, les résultats des travaux menés dans le cadre des projets "Spectrhabent-OI" (2009-2012), étendus au projet "Bioindication" (2012-2013) ont permis d'illustrer le potentiel important représenté par les nouvelles techniques d'imagerie aérienne hyperspectrale appliquées sur les plateformes récifales de l'île de La Réunion. L'objectif principal du projet HYSCORES (2015-2016) est de consolider ces premiers résultats dans une perspective de mise en œuvre opérationnelle de ces nouvelles méthodes dans le cadre de la DCE (directive-cadre européenne sur l’eau (2000/60/CE)). Pour cela 3 axes de recherche sont proposés : 1) l’étude et l'évaluation de la pertinence de l'indicateur VCH (vitalité corallienne hyperspectrale) proposé en 2012 ; 2) la capacité de l'indicateur à mettre en évidence une évolution de l'état global entre 2009 et 2015 ; 3) mieux cerner et quantifier les moyens et les ressources nécessaires à la mise en œuvre de ces nouvelles techniques en routine. Le projet s'appuie pour cela sur une nouvelle campagne d'acquisition de données brutes hyperspectrales réalisée en 2015 et couvrant les 4 principaux récifs frangeants de La Réunion. Ce rapport final présente le projet et ses objectifs dans leur globalité. Il détaille l'ensemble des méthodologies mises en œuvre dans le cadre des traitements numériques et décrit les résultats produits. Il s'attache également à l'analyse des résultats de la campagne 2015 HYSCORES en regard des résultats antérieurs (Spectrhabent-OI / BioIndication). A travers une analyse diachronique il confirme et illustre l'intérêt de ces nouvelles techniques pour évaluer les changements (gains et pertes) tant pour la Vitalité Corallienne Hyperspectrale (VCH) que pour le recouvrement corallien en général. Ce travail ouvre également sur de nouvelles perspectives en termes d'Indices (types coralliens par exemple) susceptibles de venir compléter la VCH dans le cadre de l'évaluation de l'Etat des plateformes récifales. L'ensemble des données et des résultats produits sont diffusés librement à travers les portails Sextant océan Indien et Archimer.

Untitled (I know subtle cartographies)

This short poem parodies Wallace Stevens' '13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird': VIII to show how the knowledge of the current Australian 'border protection' policy regarding refugees contaminates all aspects of our ethical being.

China anxieties in the geopolitical cartographies of the Indo-Pacific

Concepts about space and time, such as the Asia-Pacific and the Asian Century, are not articulated lightly in international relations discourses. When a spatial or temporal term comes into vogue, it often comes with political connotations and policy implications. This is the context in which we ought to consider the making of the spatial term Indo-Pacific, which has recently made it into the lexicon of official speeches, think-tank reports, government white papers and scholarly works. While many pundits and practitioners are embracing this new formulation, others cast doubt on its usefulness or even question its actual existence. Yet, despite its sudden stardom in foreign policy circles and some debate around its policy implications, how the Indo-Pacific as a political spatial concept came about has not been well understood.To address this gap, this chapter will first briefly survey the Indo-Pacific debate and examine how the debate has not paid adequate attention to the issue of the Indo-Pacific as a discursive construct. It then turns to how the United States, Australia, Japan, India and China together contribute to the formation of this concept amid ongoing geopolitical anxieties about the shape and trajectory of future Asian regional order. While acknowledging China's role in this constitutive process, I argue that as a discursive construct the Indo-Pacific has been motivated primarily by geopolitical anxieties about a perceived emerging regional order dominated by China. Driven by such anxieties, the concept is not an innocent description of a natural region out there; it has the potential of fuelling regional rivalries and exacerbating security dilemmas. Given its possible destabilising consequences, the chapter concludes with a call for a critical reimagination of this now increasingly accepted term.