[artinfo] Water is in the Air: Physics, Politics and Poetics of Water in the Arts

[Annick Bureaud]

Water is in the Air: Physics, Politics and Poetics of Water in the Arts

Annick Bureaud (Ed.), Leonardo/ISAST, MIT Press, 
Leonardo ebook series, Kindle Edition, February 
2014

ISBN: 9780262757010

http://tinyurl.com/Leonardo-Water

This ebook explores the ways that artists, from 
all over the world, working at the cutting edge 
of science and engineering, create work that 
addresses critical issues of water in culture and 
society. Drawing on thirty years of work 
documented in the Leonardo journal at MIT Press, 
the authors explore a wide range of topics, from 
art and climate change and pollution to 
artificially seeded clouds, from water fountains 
to the physics and poetics of waves, using all 
types of media (videos, performances, 
installations, sound art).

The Water is in the Air ebook is part of the ATEC 
Leonardo Initiatives in Experimental Publishing 
and Knowledge Curation at UT Dallas.
It is published in collaboration with the 
STUDIOLAB consortium, a Europe-wide initiative 
that merges the studio with the research lab, 
funded by the European Commission Seventh 
Framework Programme.
(http://studiolabproject.eu/partner/leonardoolats).

Editor Annick Bureaud -  Executive Editor Roger 
Malina - ebook Managing Editor Cathryn Ploehn.

Table of Content

Preface by Roger Malina

Introduction to Water Is in the Air by Annick Bureaud

I  WATER: ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ART
- Phenomenology and Artistic Praxis: An 
Application to Marine Ecological Communication, 
Jane Quon
- Lagoon Project: San Francisco Exploratorium, Laurie Lundquist
- The Durance: Interlaced Waters: Art-Science 
Collaborations and Audiovisual Research, Jacques 
Sapiega
- On The Modification Of Man-Made Clouds: The 
Factory Cloud, HeHe (Helen Evans and Heiko Hansen)
- Paparuda, Monsieur Moo

Sonification and Sound Projects
- Marbh Chrios, Sean Taylor and Mikael Fernström
- Pulse of an Ocean: Sonification of Ocean Buoy Data, Bob L. Sturm
- Rainwire: Environmental Sonification of Rainfall, Dave Burraston

II  WATER: FOUNTAINS, SCULPTURES, AND INSTALLATIONS
- Sculptures and Installations My "Mobile Hydromural", Gyula Kosice
- An Application of the Water Bell Liquid Flow 
Phenomenon in Visual Art, Philip Bornarth and 
Franklyn K. Schwaneflugel
- Sculptural Constructions Involving Water Dynamics, Pearl Hirshfield
- Memory Vapor, Dmitry Gelfand and Evelina Domnitch
- Anti-Entropic Role of Art,  Ana Rewakowicz

Fountains
- Color-Music Fountains and Installations of the 
Erebuni Group, Abram Alexandrovich Abramyan
- Wave Rings, Nodoka Ui
- The Futura Deluxe Bubble, Steven Raspa

III  WATER: CULTURAL METAPHOR AND ART
- Fragments of a Flow: A Thread of Water in the 
Video Work of Irit Batsry, Irit Batsry
- Walking Clouds And Augmented Reverie, Nathalie Delprat
- Here Is Where You Heard the Ocean: An 
Interactive Sound Installation, Laura L. Clemons
- Alma da Água: A Space Awareness Initiative, Dinis Ribeiro and Richard Clar
- Liquid Light: Working with Water, Liliane Lijn
- Music, Colors and Movements of Water, Jacques 
Mandelbrojt and Lucie Prod'homme

IV  WATER: CULTURAL METAPHOR, SOCIETY, AND SPIRITUALITY
- From "Life-Water" to "Death-Water" or on the 
Foundations of African Artistic Creation from 
Yesterday to Tomorrow, Iba Ndiaye Diadji
- The Symbolic Function of Water in Sub-Saharan 
Africa: A Cultural Approach, Camille Talkeu 
Tounouga
- Nomma -The Spirit of Water-in the Dogon World, Jacky Bouju

V  THE PHYSICS OF WATER: WAVES AND PATTERNS
- Waterfields: Conceptual Water Drawings, Robert C. Morgan
- On the Artistic Use of Fluid Flow Patterns Made 
Visible, A. S. Douthat, H. M. Nagib, and A. A. 
Fejer
- Around the Cusp: Singularity and the Breaking 
of Waves, Javiera Tejerina-Risso and Patrice Le 
Gal
- Science and Art of Sculpturing Fluids, Jean-Marc Chomaz
- Looking beneath the Surface: The Radial Spread of Ink in Water, Pery Burge
- Process and Natural Phenomena as Conceptual 
Points of Departure in Extended-Format Sculpture, 
Eve Laramée