The Deep Field Trilogy. Part One: Initial Conditions

White, N. and Thomson, J. 2019. The Deep Field Trilogy. Part One: Initial Conditions. UN/GREEN. Naturally Artificial Intelligences RIXC Festival and the 4th Open Fields conference on Art-Science Research July 4 – 6, 2019, Riga

TitleThe Deep Field Trilogy. Part One: Initial Conditions
CreatorsWhite, N.
Thomson, J.
Description

The Deep Field (Trilogy) Part One: Initial Conditions (v1).

Screened at UN/GREEN. Naturally Artificial Intelligences
RIXC Festival and the 4th Open Fields conference on Art-Science Research
July 4 – 6, 2019, Riga

This short film is the first of a three-part provocation that attempts to address the complex nature of fieldwork in its relation to contemporary art and research practices.

In Part One: Initial Conditions, the viewer is led through three visually described deep field locations shot by Neal White and Jol Thoms in Utah, USA and Siberia, Russia. All are recognisable as either having scientific or artistic context, set within vast and remote landscapes.

What is less apparent is that two of the locations (Mullard Cosmic Ray Laboratory / Fly Eye Camera, Great Basin in Utah - shot by White, and the Lake Baikal Deep Neutrino Observatory in Siberia - shot by Thoms) are landscape-scale cameras whose tasks are to detect speculative matter (Cosmic Rays, Neutrinos) passing almost undetected through our planet, whilst the third location documents Getty Museum archivists undertaking basic aerial surveillance of land art (Robert Smithson Spiral Jetty, Utah, shot by White). The narrator addresses these landscapes as places in which the deep field engages with the challenges of scalar, temporal and spatial ranges.

The following two films; Asymmetry and Ground Truth will explore contemporary artist research methods in relation to these new fieldwork methods and addressing the site of exhibition. Through the production of the films, each will then be updated to form a complete trilogy on how it might be possible to address the deep field, which lies at the centre of this ongoing research project, exploring new transdisciplinary research methods and related discourse in scientific and post-natural landscapes.

Created by Neal White with Jol Thoms. Published by Office of Experiments and University of Westminster

KeywordsDeep Field, Office of Experiments, Fieldwork, UNGREEN
Year28 Jun 2019
Files
Place of publicationUN/GREEN. Naturally Artificial Intelligences RIXC Festival and the 4th Open Fields conference on Art-Science Research July 4 – 6, 2019, Riga
Web address (URL)http://festival2019.rixc.org/
Image creditNeal White
Media typeVideo
RightsOffice of Experiments

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