[Yasmin_discussions] Fwd: artists and atoms: fission and fusion

yasminers

last night in Aix Keiko Courdy was giving a talk and mentioned Tetsuwan
Atomu, the machine boy with an atomic heart.

patrick no doubt you use this example in your course on atomic and
nuclear age at uc santa barbara !!
interesting to see the cultural transfer from Japan to Walt Disney.....

roger

The Origin of Animé: Astro Boy
http://www.asiaxpress.com/Articles/anime/origin.htm
Osamu Tezuka was the originator of Animé. During World War II, the
atomic bombs that were dropped in Japan killed many people. It was
depressing, and made the Japanese people angry. Osamu Tezuka then
released the first Animé, it was called Tetswan Atomu. That Animé was
about a little machine boy with an atomic heart whose creator disowned
him because he wasn't able to grow. Caring people then rescued him by
nurturing and accepting him as one of their own. This smoothed over
some of the nation's anger and was a big step in allowing people to
forgive. Another major step toward the growth of Animé, was when a
producer liked the idea and decided bring it to America. American
investments gave Japanese artists money and equipment (such as cartoon
cels) to make the product look better. Astro Boy (which is Tetswan
Atomu in English) had become a hit in America. Unfortunately, US
broadcasters complained that there was too much violence in the shows
and there could be involvement with death during the course of a
story. Walt Disney said that children could not be trusted with death
or a concept as complicated as death. So, American fans never got to
see the last episode of Astro Boy! That was how Animé started.
from
http://www.asiaxpress.com/Articles/anime/origin.htm

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[Yasmin_discussions] Art and Atoms: Fusion and Fission

Dear all,

I have few comments from our initiall discussion.

Roger, i read the abstract you linked concerning Einstein-Eddington
time-scale. I´m completly out of this field, but, i would like to know if i
understan well. So, there are conditions where starts behaves as eternally
collapsing objects?, these stars could be interpreted as "eternal" nuclear
power suppliers? (i don´t understand this probably because this goes in
oppossite direction to thermodynamical statments, ??). Appart of this doubt
it is very interesting the idea that nuclear energy and nuclear technology
probably could be exploited in many, many interestings new things. Some (not
all) new horizonts, as new travel voyages, or new experiments to go deeper
on science knowledge needs more and more energy. It is know that new
machines and new ways to use better and more efficient energy gives the
possibility to go further, physically and conceptually, so nuclear energy
probably keeps really interestings challenges, as we don´t know at the
moment another powerfull energy.

At the same time ít was very interesting the comments from Grabielle. It is
fascinating how nuclear power is probably one of the key points of,
obviously twenty century politics, but at the same time culture and visions.
I´m completly away of this speciality (Gabrielle, i really would like to
read this PDF from Derrida, even my english complicate much more the
reading¡¡). But as it is pointed, most of the cultural eco seems to me that
was in a pesimistic view. It is completly reasonable that it was in this
line. Another view probably sounds mad in these contexts, and it is great to
have acces to the possible alarms. But i think it is dangerous at the same
time not to think in the possitive feedings of nuclear visions. And
possitive must not be necesary naive ones. As it was pointed it could be
constructed a history of one technology by their accidents, and we must have
acces to it, but we need to have acces to possitive implications too. I
don´t know if exist some possitive vision from artist of nuclear energy,
appart from political propaganda, which in turns it is not necesary
"possitive".

At the same time, as Grabrielle pointed in last parragraph, it could be
really interesting how artist behaves with nuclear and atomic concepts. I
think the name of these discussion it has extremmly powerfull (as nuclear
energy is) methapores. Fusion and Fision obviously could be interporeted as
fusion of artists and scientist but probably the way that it is learned the
Fusion concept in science could be different to anothers knoledge areas. I
think in physics we understand Fusion and Fision like add and division. It
is interesting that in nuclear science division give us lot of energy, but
the process that add (Fusion) give even more energy, and more safe ¡¡¡. At
the same time, physics differs form chemistry, for example, that the
elements of this divisions or addings are the atoms, but nuclear physicist
don´t think in atoms as distinguishable elements, they are composed by
protons and neutrons, which are allways same particles. There are enormous
quanty of "communities" of these protons and neutrons, but only
energetically "stables" are the common ones. I think, like machine and
afterwards cell, this methaphore of nucleous composed by such quantyty of
elements gives us the idea of stable community, and in these stable
community Fusion appears as the process to create more powerfull energy. It
seems a beautifull methapore of the art and science comunity, for example.

Guillermo.
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Artists as Inventors- Inventors as Artists
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[Yasmin_discussions] art and atoms: fission and fusion

Yasminers

As Guillermo points out all life on earth results from the process
of nuclear fusion at the center of the sun, that leads to solar energy
which is the source of all life on earth. As an astronomer, i know that
what a problem it was to understand how the sun functioned until
fusion energy was realised at the source of energy

Arthur Eddington for instance
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006astro.ph..8178M
worked a great deal on this problem.

As pointed out by Avi Rosen its impossible not to discussion fission
and fusion without
reference to the work of Paul Virilio, who has argued forcefully that all
new technologies can be seen through the new kinds of accidents that
they inevitably bring into possibility.

See in addition to Avis' references for Virilio , the Cartier Museum
of Accidents

http://www.onoci.net/virilio/pages_uk/accidents/liste.php?th=1&rub=1_3

I have always been uneasy with Virilios line of argument, after all
some technologies
with large potential desrutrutive power have become culturally
contained. The work
of artists is important in this process. Fusion and Fission energy are
recently used
in society, as annick bureaud mentions through medical technologies
use of radioactive
istopes.

Arts Catalyst organised an interested conference recently
described below

Roger

Nuclear: art & radioactivity
New commissions by Chris Oakley and Simon Hollington & Kypros Kyprianou

http://www.artscatalyst.org/projects/darkplaces/nuclear.html

Nuclear power is re-emerging as a concern for our times, both as a
generator of energy and as part of a defence strategy. Today it seems
to stand for the failed utopian promises of modernism and a fresh hope
for a carbon-free future. The contradictions that lie at its core have
provided a rich source of questioning for artists, scientists,
ecologists and activists for many years.

The Nuclear exhibition explores these intricacies through two new
commissioned works by Chris Oakley and Simon Hollington & Kypros
Kyprianou.

Last year, high court judge Jeremy Sullivan caused an apparent setback
to the government's nuclear energy ambitions by ruling that public
consultation into the creation of a new fleet of nuclear power
stations was "misleading" and "seriously flawed".
Soon after these
events, Simon Hollington & Kypros Kyprianou started a residency at The
British Atomic Nuclear Group as part of a public perceptions
programme. Hollington & Kyprianou's work in Nuclear is the outcome
from this residency, particularly their work within B.A.N.G's
wide-ranging public consultation into the possibility of siting a
nuclear power facility in the heart of London. Their new installation,
'The Nightwatchman' traces changing perceptions of the nuclear power
industry over its 50 year history through a single immersive narrative
environment, blending fact and fiction into a darkly humorous journey
through hard-nosed PR and spin to a logical hysteria.

Video and photo archive of The Nightwatchman:
http://www.electronicsunset.org/node/82

Chris Oakley's new film 'Half-life' looks at the histories of Harwell,
birthplace of the UK nuclear industry, and the new development of
fusion energy technology at the Culham facility in Oxfordshire. Oakley
gained the cooperation of both these organisations in his research and
filming. The film examines nuclear science research through a
historical and cultural filter. With the recent widespread acceptance
of the reality of climate change driven by carbon dioxide emissions,
the work explores the realities and myths surrounding the nuclear
sciences.
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[Yasmin_discussions] Art and Atoms: Fusion and Fission

Dear Roger and all,

Thank you very much for inviting me to participate to the discussion
on art and the atom. My background being art (and visual cultures), it
is from this standpoint that I would like to address some of the
problematic encountered so far. Few generalities I will first start
with: cultural artefacts relating to nuclear technology can be found
for all types of arts (theatre, design, literature, music, painting,
sculpture, etc), and mainstream, avant-garde, un-official, commercial
and/or popular culture covered the subject in myriad of ways. (From
these, the mushroom cloud and Geiger counter are definitely recurrent.)

Much art has been done also in response to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
(The fact of simply evoking their names suffices to bring in mind
their (global) history.) In France, "Hiroshima mon amour" is indeed
counted as one of the first representation of the Japanese Holocaust,
avoiding the mushroom-like icons, contrary to Stanley Kubrick's
"Doctor Strangelove, or How I learnt to Stop Worrying and Love the
Bomb", whose final scene shows footages of actual nuclear explosions.
Earlier in the 50s, the Italian group the Nuclearists are also of
interest, for their desire to represent in painting a new era: the
nuclear age. But the one who addressed/distanced the anxieties of
total atomic destruction the most efficiently is probably Jacques
Derrida in "No Apocalypse Not Now". The text is very dense and it
would take more than an email to summarise. The main idea perhaps is
the designation of the politics of "deterrence" as being particular to
the 'nuclear age'. Maybe if anyone read it, he/she could give a
reading of it along the discussion? (I am happy to send a pdf to
anyone wanting to read it, or give more details later).

Chernobyl is also recurrent. The man-made catastrophe gives undeniably
distance to nuclear energy now and then. In and around the various
power plants however, Sheila Pinkel, James Acord, Brandon Ballengée
and Cornelia Hesse-Honegger are probably the most interesting among
others. The compound-like nuclear power-plant (that you mentioned
Roger through James Acord), is at stake, as much as the complicated
scientifico-corporate-political interplays sometime leading to
disastrous effects. In times of so-called energy crisis, a similar
anxiety for such uncertain technology (questioning the "clean, C02-
free" energy) is present. For instance, I will give a paper in July
for the conference "Literature, Art and Culture in the Age of Global
Risk". The conference intends to question the "technological sublime",
and the possible revival of "Nuclear criticism" in our contemporary
context. And in this context, I can't think of any other text than
Martin Heidegger's "Question Concerning Technology", in which he
states that, even if modern technology acts as a revealing, it is
nature that challenges man (humans) rather than the other way around.
(This of course, can be questioned too).

Much has been said and done on the American bombings and the power
plants. But beyond the duality of the atom - atom for war or atom for
peace - is there any artistic disruption of the bi-polar understanding
of the atom itself? Perhaps, this is the main question I would like
to address.

--------------------------------------
Gabrielle Decamous
Visiting Tutor
Ph.D. Candidate
Goldsmiths College, University of London
Department of Visual Cultures
London SE14 6NW
United Kingdom

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Re: [Yasmin_discussions] Art and Atoms: Fusion and Fission

In Paul Virilio's 'The information bomb' there is an "exploration of the relationship between technology, speed, war and information technology weaves together a breathtaking worldview of horror, exhilaration and hope". - http://www.versobooks.com/books/tuvwxyz/tuv-titles/virilio_info_bomb_rt.shtml

I believe that in the "Fusion" of Cyberspace (via hubs like "Google") there is a great promise of new artistic possibilities, when artists (potentially all surfers) are located at the real-time data singularity, or the omnipresence that creates a large mass\energy, bends space and time into a closed loop, orbitfold-shaped.

The cyberspace demonstrates Heidegger's "thrownness", and Dasein being, when one always finds oneself already in a certain spiritual and material, historically conditioned environment (artistically adaptive data-sphere), in the extended world, in which the space and time of possibilities is always unlimited.

Two papers about this idea:

'Art at the Event Horizon' - http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=505

'The Ultimate Cathedral' - http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=568

Avi Rosen.
New Media Artist
http://www.sipl.technion.ac.il/~avi/cv.html

-----Original Message-----
From: yasmin_discussions-bounces@estia.media.uoa.gr [mailto:yasmin_discussions-bounces@estia.media.uoa.gr] On Behalf Of Guillermo Muñoz
Sent: ב 01 יוני 2009 20:19
To: YASMIN DISCUSSIONS
Subject: Re: [Yasmin_discussions] Art and Atoms: Fusion and Fission

Dear Yasminers,

This month we are going to deal with a topic of vast power: Fusion and
Fision energy systems and the ways that could interact with art. This vast
power provides the capacity to kill huge quantity of people in only severals
seconds, as happened in Hiroshima and Nagashaky. At the same time offers the
possibility to obtain high flux of energy to our houses in the civil use of
nuclear energy, but, probably this energy is not as free and clean as we
would like at the moment. Nuclear energy goes by hand with the history in a
period where EEUU and URSS had theirs fingers only few milimeters up to
press the buton to create another terible war.

All of these data, feelings and fears where in our minds decades throught
another decades, as an incoscience images creating appocaliptical visions,
used in many films. So, this senses acts in our political life. Pacifim,
ecologism, have a direct idea and possition about nuclear energy, and
nowadays their voice is listened in more imperative way, as a climate change
appears in the political and economical scene.

But history allways returns, and Nuclear energy is having new attention,
their uses as military pourposes are evident, as only one week before North
Corea put it in all news with its new bomb. Its civil uses claims at the
same time, as fusion energy is under research to change the "dirty"
adjective to this energy to "clean" one. Fusion energy is considered
probably as the more powerfull possible energy and it would be more clean
tha fision. It is not extrange to think about it if we consider that this
kind of energy is "used by" nature in the starts.

Nanotechnology has the oportunity to create and develope new technology with
the knowledge and "vote" of all society, and probably we are in these
situation actually because we learned from the risks of old technologies.
Nuclear energy reapears today, so, we have the chance at the same time to
reactualizate these energy. It is hard task as probably Nuclear energy has
the worse and terrible adjectives incorporated by itself, but, It could be
possible?.

I would like to end these introduction with few comments:

Only few days ago die Herbert F. York. Physicst who worked at the Manhatan
Project and afterwards worked as a EEUU political advisory on nuclear power.
One generation of scientists where completly sensibilizated with the nuclear
culture, but nowadays nuclear energy return and novel and young scientists
are little bit far away from all of these historic happenings. What is the
feeling of new generations concerning nuclear energy?.

At the same time, today i read in the newspapper an intervew to Jüergen
Flim, Theater Director who was born during II world war. He said: "Art must
provocate reactions on people". So, what kind of reactions would like to
provocate art concerning nuclear energy topics.

Finally. As a methapore it is interesting to know that some clean energies
like photovoltaique and photothermal energy are completly dependent to
nuclear energy, as phtons from the sun are created in a huge nuclear
station. But distance and the earth atmosphere gives the possibility to
eliminate undesired effects. We are dealing all days with nuclear energy, we
need nuclear energy, and at the same time we need to preserve our enviorment
to follow with this procedure.

Guillermo Muñoz.
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Re: [Yasmin_discussions] Art and Atoms: Fusion and Fission

Dear Colleagues,

In regard to this discussion I immediately think of Todd Siler's compelling work which I first became acquainted with when we were both affiliated with the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT. Notable is his series and text "Cerebreactors." The following is from his book "Breaking the mind barrier" (available at http://books.google.com)

"Cerebreators are artworks of neurocosmology that interpret the connection between the brain and its creations. They are metaphorical models of imaginary particle accelerators, nuclear fusion and fission reactors designed after the human nervous system."

Siler has pursued an integration of art and science which he refers to as "artscience" defined "as a process by which art integrates science and science integrates art in their adventurous acts of creative seeing, discovering, critical thinking, inventing and innovating." (see http://www.toddsilerart.com/bio.html).

Metaphorical models such as "Cerebreactors" can serve to inspire our vision of the possibilities of this discourse.

Gregory P. Garvey, Professor
Department of Computer Science and Interactive Digital Design
CAS 1-316 Mail Drop: CL-AC1
Quinnipiac University
275 Mount Carmel Avenue
Hamden, CT 06518

email: greg.garvey@quinnipiac.edu
tel: 203-582-8389

"the thing that has not been is the thing that shall be"

from Daedalus, or Science and the Future - J.B.S. Haldane

"Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."

Robert F. Kennedy
Capetown, June 6th 1966

________________________________________
From: yasmin_discussions-bounces@estia.media.uoa.gr [yasmin_discussions-bounces@estia.media.uoa.gr] On Behalf Of Guillermo Muñoz [m.m.guillermo@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 1:19 PM
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Subject: Re: [Yasmin_discussions] Art and Atoms: Fusion and Fission

Dear Yasminers,

This month we are going to deal with a topic of vast power: Fusion and
Fision energy systems and the ways that could interact with art. This vast
power provides the capacity to kill huge quantity of people in only severals
seconds, as happened in Hiroshima and Nagashaky. At the same time offers the
possibility to obtain high flux of energy to our houses in the civil use of
nuclear energy, but, probably this energy is not as free and clean as we
would like at the moment. Nuclear energy goes by hand with the history in a
period where EEUU and URSS had theirs fingers only few milimeters up to
press the buton to create another terible war.

All of these data, feelings and fears where in our minds decades throught
another decades, as an incoscience images creating appocaliptical visions,
used in many films. So, this senses acts in our political life. Pacifim,
ecologism, have a direct idea and possition about nuclear energy, and
nowadays their voice is listened in more imperative way, as a climate change
appears in the political and economical scene.

But history allways returns, and Nuclear energy is having new attention,
their uses as military pourposes are evident, as only one week before North
Corea put it in all news with its new bomb. Its civil uses claims at the
same time, as fusion energy is under research to change the "dirty"
adjective to this energy to "clean" one. Fusion energy is considered
probably as the more powerfull possible energy and it would be more clean
tha fision. It is not extrange to think about it if we consider that this
kind of energy is "used by" nature in the starts.

Nanotechnology has the oportunity to create and develope new technology with
the knowledge and "vote" of all society, and probably we are in these
situation actually because we learned from the risks of old technologies.
Nuclear energy reapears today, so, we have the chance at the same time to
reactualizate these energy. It is hard task as probably Nuclear energy has
the worse and terrible adjectives incorporated by itself, but, It could be
possible?.

I would like to end these introduction with few comments:

Only few days ago die Herbert F. York. Physicst who worked at the Manhatan
Project and afterwards worked as a EEUU political advisory on nuclear power.
One generation of scientists where completly sensibilizated with the nuclear
culture, but nowadays nuclear energy return and novel and young scientists
are little bit far away from all of these historic happenings. What is the
feeling of new generations concerning nuclear energy?.

At the same time, today i read in the newspapper an intervew to Jüergen
Flim, Theater Director who was born during II world war. He said: "Art must
provocate reactions on people". So, what kind of reactions would like to
provocate art concerning nuclear energy topics.

Finally. As a methapore it is interesting to know that some clean energies
like photovoltaique and photothermal energy are completly dependent to
nuclear energy, as phtons from the sun are created in a huge nuclear
station. But distance and the earth atmosphere gives the possibility to
eliminate undesired effects. We are dealing all days with nuclear energy, we
need nuclear energy, and at the same time we need to preserve our enviorment
to follow with this procedure.

Guillermo Muñoz.
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