Phenomenology and/or objects of exchange

This paper begins with explaining my diagram titled 'An interpretation of how Phenomenology and DNA meet in the cultural prosthetic in Bernard Stiegler’s ‘Technics and Time’'. It continues through anecdotally recalling an experience I had as a tutor with an art student and then develops two positions concerning the ontology of artworks that are stimulated by Mario Perniola's 'Art and its Shadow' (2004). These positions are then extrapolated into the dynamic of arts education and the proposition of a methodology peculiar to art. A methodology that attempts to negotiate the valorisation of artworks as artifacts and the valorisation of artworks as social processes of mediation. This duality is resolved in the question of the incorporation of the inorganic artefact, a process that produces viscosity in the inorganic and retards social processes

The Warburg Haus: Apparatus, inscription, data, speculation

A text describing the process of a colloquium event held at the Warburg Haus in June 2016, the research questions and the outcomes

Technology, time, transposition

Beginning from the broad proposition that art is a site for contesting temporality, this paper considers the relationship between technology and time. Bernard Stiegler’s concepts of tertiary retention and epiphylogenesis are used to consider archaeological heritage and its data analysis in technological apparatus. The claim is made that in the process of producing heritage objects situated in a media environment as tertiary retentions, archaeology also (from a media-archaeological point-of-view) produces an artefactual matter in the technical support that is open to subsequent data analysis. This process of data extraction and subsequent re-immersion of the tertiary retention’s artefactual support into the epiphylogenetic is mapped onto Elie Ayache’s interpretation of implied volatility in the Black–Scholes–Merton model for valuing financial derivatives. The paper negotiates these schemas in order to flatten the relation between the topographic site and its mnemo-technic supports making the paradoxical claim that the circulation of the tertiary retention, the derivative, precedes and underwrites the liquidity of the topographic site. In part this paper tests its own readiness to jump between two registers: the value and interpretation of cultural artefacts and the value and pricing of financial commodities sketching semiotic lines of convergence between symbolic and financial economies

Headstone to Hard Drive

This paper presents the context and outcomes of the research project Headstone to Hard Drive. The project was initiated by the author in the role of Frank Martin Research Fellow in Sculpture at Central Saint Martins between October 2013 and September 2016. Whilst the project included many small events the main focus was the discursive platform of three symposium events held at Central Saint Martins and British School at Rome in 2014-15. This text addresses the aims of the project drawing from the contributions to the three symposia that are presented in this publication

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This book is the result of three years of collaboration, travel and discourse between the artists Joey Bryniarska and Martin Westwood, and archeologists working in France and Sweden. Brought together through the European Commission funded NEARCH project the book is a companion piece to three large scale diagrams and an audio-visual sculpture. The authors propose a grouping of hagiographic, architectural, administrative, physiologic and mediatic motifs as grounds to describe their encounters with archeologists, archaeological and inter/trans-disciplinary methods in general. The attic of a gothic cathedral, the rumour of a contaminated spoil heap on an archipelago, an underground carpark and the remainders of a decapitation, are some of the sites sketched, in order to develop the dynamics of: communication/isolation; access/exclusion; division/unity. Contrasting minor textual and visual genres: the postcard, the travelogue, the sketched diagram and the email; along with historical narrative, speculative writing (both analytic and imaginary) and a critique of disciplinary processes, we have aimed to merge both lived and historical experience in order to articulate relations within and between fields of research and practice. This publication is concerned with relaying historical and contemporary information through the description of specific collaborative environments, to propose analogies for the affective encounters experienced. The aim is to present an instance calibrating these three factors

Simondon, Lyotard and the Transdisciplinary Shadow

This paper was delivered at the 'Designing Community' conference at Espace Niemeyer, Paris. Drawing from experiences as an artist involved in a cross-disciplinary project with archaeologists based in Saint-Denis, France (NEARCH – New Scenarios for a Community Based Archaeology), this presentation observes relationship and antagonism between holistic and discrete fields of knowledge, aesthetics, community, communication and noise. This paper proposes questions (generated by consideration of Gilbert Simondon’s proposition of aesthetics as ecumenical thought, Jean Francois Lyotard’s notion of the differend and Michel Serres idea of the parasite): To what extent does the formation of a universal community depend upon successful relations and practices of communication? If founding a community requires an act of exclusion (of noise, dispute, silence or remoteness) in order to successfully exchange messages, can architects of new communities acknowledge and incorporate this act of exclusion? Can the formal character of the exclusion be inverted into a building block for a new community where community might be made from “differences, noise and disorder” and “not in the key of pre-established harmony”? (Michel Serres, The Parasite (2007), Minnesota Press Edition. 13

Considering the Network of Heritage and Historical Value in Archaeology and Art

This article is an interview at the completion of the NEARCH project (New Scenarios For A Community-Involved Archaeology). Funded by the European Commission, NEARCH brought together artists and archaeologists to explore various dimensions of public participation in contemporary archaeology and bring to the field, which is strongly influenced by economic and social developments in society, new ways of working and collaborating. In this article the processes of collaboration are discussed from the point of view of the two collaborating artists (Martin Westwood and Joey Bryniarska) and two of the archaeologists they worked with over four years (Jean Yves Breuil, an archaeologist and researcher at INRAP, France, and Anita Synnestvedt, a researcher in heritage and archaeology at the department of Historical Studies at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden)

United Kingdom newsprint media reporting on sexual health and blood-borne viruses in 2010

Background: Improving sexual health and blood-borne virus (BBV) outcomes continue to be of high priority within the United Kingdom (UK) and it is evident that the media can and do impact the public health agenda. This paper presents the first large-scale exploration of UK national newsprint media representations of sexual health and BBVs. Methods: Using keyword searches in electronic databases, 677 articles published during 2010 were identified from 12 national (UK-wide and Scottish) newspapers. Content analysis was used to identify manifest content and to examine the tone of articles. Results: Although there was a mixed picture overall in terms of tone, negatively toned articles, which focussed on failures or blame, were common, particularly within HIV/AIDS, hepatitis B and C, and other sexually transmissible infection coverage (41% were assessed as containing negative content; 46% had negative headlines). Differences were found by newspaper genre, with ‘serious’ newspaper articles appearing more positive and informative than ‘midmarket’ newspapers or ‘tabloids’. Across the sample, particular individuals, behaviours and risk groups were focussed on, not always accurately, and there was little mention of deprivation and inequalities (9%). A gender imbalance was evident, particularly within reproductive health articles (71% focussed on women; 23% on men), raising questions concerning gender stereotyping. Conclusions: There is a need to challenge the role that media messages have in the reinforcement of a negative culture around sexual health in the UK and for a strong collective advocacy voice to ensure that future media coverage is positively portrayed

Reflectance anisotropy spectra from Si δ-doped GaAs(001): Correlation of linear electro-optic effect with integrated surface field

Reflectance anisotropy spectroscopy (RAS) has been employed in situ to investigate the overlayer growth of GaAs onto submonolayer to one monolayer coverages of Si δ layers deposited on the GaAs(001)-c(4×4) surface. The intensity of RAS features, thought to arise from the linear electro-optic (LEO) effect, is found to vary with both the number of atoms in the Si δ layer and the position of the δ plane from the GaAs surface. Self-consistent solutions to Poisson’s equation are made to calculate the electric field in the near-surface region of the samples. The results show a direct correlation between the LEO intensity and the surface field averaged over the penetration depth of the incident radiation, in confirmation of the LEO model

Delegation and supervision of health care assistants’ work in the daily management of uncertainty and the unexpected in clinical practice: invisible learning among newly qualified nurses

The invisibility of nursing work has been discussed in the international literature but not in relation to learning clinical skills. Evans and Guile’s (2012) theory of recontextualisation is used to explore the ways in which invisible or unplanned and unrecognised learning takes place as newly qualified nurses learn to delegate to and supervise the work of the health care assistant. In the British context, delegation and supervision are thought of as skills which are learnt ‘on the job’. We suggest that learning ‘on-the-job’ is the invisible construction of knowledge in clinical practice and that delegation is a particularly telling area of nursing practice which illustrates invisible learning. Using an ethnographic case study approach in three hospital sites in England from 2011-2014, we undertook participant observation, interviews with newly qualified nurses, ward managers and health care assistants. We discuss the invisible ways newly qualified nurses learn in the practice environment and present the invisible steps to learning which encompass the embodied, affective and social, as much as the cognitive components to learning. We argue that there is a need for greater understanding of the ‘invisible learning’ which occurs as newly qualified nurses learn to delegate and supervise