{"id":1451,"date":"2013-07-02T22:33:50","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T21:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/?p=1451"},"modified":"2013-08-12T10:55:17","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T09:55:17","slug":"night-on-the-brocken-nicholas-alfrey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/1451","title":{"rendered":"Night on the Brocken, Nicholas Alfrey"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Martin John Callanan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s work engages most directly with scientific methods: his <a href=\"http:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/globe\">A Planetary Order (Terrestrial Cloud Globe)<\/a> utilizes the complex apparatus of state-backed meteorological data collection to model a single moment in the atmospheric history of the planet. The cloud cover as recorded by six cloud-monitoring satellites is mapped on to a globe, a physical (rather than virtual) object created by means of cutting-edge digital manufacturing technology. It is the counterpart to Constable\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cloud studies for the age of IT, but whereas for Constable clouds were \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcthe chief organ of sentiment\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 in a picture, they can now be visualised as forming an entire global regime. The piece gains a touching, almost absurd, quality of understatement through the disparity of its unassuming physical presence and the prodigious depth and scope of the knowledge it encapsulates.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Extract from the essay Night on the Brocken, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nottingham.ac.uk\/art-history\/people\/nicholas.alfrey\">Nicholas Alfrey<\/a>, to accompany the exhibition <a href=\"http:\/\/springhornhof.de\/verstand-gefuhl-landschaft-und-die-zeitgenossische-romantik\/\">Reason and Emotion Landscape and the Contemporary Romantic, Springhornhof<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/0956941036\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1634&#038;creative=19450&#038;creativeASIN=0956941036&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=itakephotos-21\">Purchase the book via Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin John Callanan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s work engages most directly with scientific methods: his A Planetary Order (Terrestrial Cloud Globe) utilizes the complex apparatus of state-backed meteorological data collection to model a single moment in the atmospheric history of the planet. The cloud cover as recorded by six cloud-monitoring satellites is mapped on to a globe, a physical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[1137,2203,65,2187,2188,2194,2198,2189,2196,2186,2195,2192,2202,2191,2204,2200,2193,2199,1218,2197,2190],"class_list":["post-1451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-planetary-order","tag-amazon","tag-brocken","tag-callanan","tag-chief-organ","tag-cloud-studies","tag-constable","tag-counterpart","tag-cutting-edge-digital","tag-disparity","tag-global-regime","tag-manufacturing-technology","tag-meteorological-data","tag-nicholas-alfrey","tag-physical-presence","tag-reason-and-emotion","tag-satellites","tag-scientific-methods","tag-sentiment","tag-single-moment","tag-understatement","tag-virtual-object"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1451"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1856,"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions\/1856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}