Earthrise: How Man First Saw the Earth by Robert Poole. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, U.S.A., and London, U.K., 2008, 2010. 236 pp., illus. Cloth, paper. ISBN-13: 978-03-001-3766-8; ISBN-13: 978-03-001-6403-9
Earthrise: How Man First Saw the Earth by Robert Poole. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, U.S.A., and London, U.K., 2008, 2010. 236 pp., illus. Cloth, paper. ISBN-13: 978-03-001-3766-8; ISBN-13: 978-03-001-6403-9
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《地出:人类如何第一次看到地球》作者:罗伯特·普尔。
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Exhibition Platonic solids and Euclidian geometry, while others recall figures drawn from optics and ocular refraction. Here the elegance of mathematic reasoning forms an artful corollary to the delicate arcs and swelling bell curves of computer graphics, with the balloon itself a suggestive 3D model of Leonardo’s proportionality, measurement and design. At first glance, the aerostat calls to mind the external panels of Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights in the Prado, where a transparent grisaille bubble opens onto fantastical panoramas of sin and debauchery. But Uzunovski’s celestial orbs point to microcosmicmacrocosmic correspondences that are as metaphysical, if not mystical, as they are astrophysical and allegorical. These perfect spheres produce rims of haloed radiance from a mirror of the heavens, replicating a cosmic unity composed of synergistic hemispheres. It is a model of universal dualism that has inspired artists since antiquity. Creation myths typically commence rogate of the sun. Uzunovski, on a visit to Finland in an attempt to photograph the arctic tundra on the shortest day of the year, observed that under certain circumstances, the sun’s rays appeared to hover above the surface of the earth, never touching the ground, illuminating only upper branches of the trees. At certain points, he noticed, it was possible to touch the light with one’s fingertips. He was further motivated to augment illumination for Laplanders in areas in which diurnal light was limited to only 5–10 seconds. Two years later, in a studio in Trieste, Uzunovski collaborated with physicists from the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics and the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) to develop geo-positioning coordinates for a solar replica. Together with, for example, Pierdavide Coïsson of ICTP the artist was able to identify 22 December as a day when a very high logarithmic value (24,000 m) could be assigned to sunrays that would reach the polar circle, after which the altitudinal value decreased. With John Miller of Oxford University, he charted the sun’s path by means of solar declination equations and measurements of light that could be reflected from the ground. During the same period, Uzunovski accumulated climatological data from Finland on wind speed, temperature and cloudiness during winter in the Lapland region. He constructed a non-flying apparatus during an artist residency at Pollinaria, an interdisciplinary research center in the Abruzzo region of Italy. In this rugged landscape he tested the model under varying atmospheric conditions. He later refined these studies through collaborations with students from the University of Lapland and the Art University of Helsinki. As a result he was able to realize a flying, helium-inflated balloon 2 meters in diameter, controlled by detachable cables capable of creating the illusion of a “second sun.” The installation in Venice included a wealth of data, computational formulae, graphs and technical drawings that emphasized the precision and clarity of the project’s scientific research and alluded intriguingly to sacred geometry. Some of the diagrams reference Reviews Panel: Kathryn Adams, Nameera Ahmed, Katherine Ancher, Fred Andersson, Wilfred Arnold, Jan Baetens, Niran BahjatAbbas, Brian Baigrie, Jenny Bangham, John F. Barber, Jon Bedworth, Roy R. Behrens, Katharina Blassnigg, Martha Blassnigg, Barry Blundell, Catalin Brylla, Annick Bureaud, Franc Chamberlain, Chris Cobb, Ornella Corazza, Giovanna Constantini, Sean Cubitt, Hannah Drayson, Anthony Enns, Jennifer Ferng, Enzo Ferrara, Anastasia Filippoupoliti, George Gessert, Thom Gillespie, Luis Girao, Lisa M. Graham, Allan Graubard, Dene Grigar, Diane Gromala, Rob Harle, Craig Harris, Paul Hertz, Craig J Hilton, Jung A Huh, Amy Ione, Boris Jardine, Richard Kade, John Knight, Mike Leggett, Helen Levin, Kieran Lyons, Roger Malina, Jacques Mandelbrojt, Florence Martellini, Eduardo Miranda, Rick Mitchell, Robert A. Mitchell, Christine Morris, Michael Mosher, Axel Mulder, Frieder Nake, Maureen A. Nappi, Angela Ndalianis, Erika Nimis, Martha Patricia Nino, Claudy Opdenkamp, Simone Osthoff, Jack Ox, Narendra Pachkhede, Luisa Paraguai Donati, Jussi Parikka, Stephen Petersen, Cliff Pickover, Michael Punt, Kathleen Quillian, Harry Rand, Sonya Rapoport, Trace Reddell, Brian Reffin Smith, Hannah Rogers, Lara Schrijver, Bill Seeley, Aparna Sharma, George K. Shortess, Yvonne Spielmann, Chris Speed, Eugene Thacker, Pia Tikka, David Topper, Nicholas Tresilian, Rene van Peer, Stefaan van Ryssen, Ian Verstegen, Claudia Westermann, Stephen Wilson, Brigitta Zics, Jonathan Zilberg My sunshine