Forms of Knowledge: Calculations and Creativity In celebration of a new installation of work by glass artist Dr Shelley James, The Hospital Club hosted a panel discussion about the science and art of data with Professor Arthur I Miller, author of Colliding Worlds: How cutting edge science is redefining contemporary art and Gavin Starks, director of Dgen.

2. data are emitted by people and machines
translated into forms people and machines can use
helping people and machines decide
things that impact each of our worlds — and the whole world
coaxing machines and people to emit more data

4. Three flames ate the sun, and big stars were seen
Phil Archer
Watching the Watchers
James Bridle
Pink Sheet Method
Thickear
Vending Machine
Ellie Harrison
The body
Stanza

5. The Obelisk (2012)
Fabio Lattanzi Antinori

6. The Clandestine Purse
Natasha Caruana

7. Endless War
Yoha with Matthew Fuller

8. theODI.org/culture

11. 1265 - 1321
Dante's Universe

12. 1520
Copernicus
On the resolutions of the
heavenly spheres

13. 1617
Robert Fludd
The Metaphysical, Physical,
and Technical history
of two worlds,
the Macrocosm and
the Microcosm

14. 1750
Thomas Wright
An original theory or new
hypothesis of the universe
A finite view of infinity

15. Large scale structure of the universe
~100M ly

16. 1845
William Parsons
(drawing of the view through his telescope)
1889
Vincent van Gogh

18. Music of the spheres
a music thought of
not as an audible sound,
but as a mathematical relationship

19. Atacama Large millimetre Array (ALMA), Chile

20. In the ‘data cube’ each ‘pixel’
is a whole spectrum.
Each pixel/spectra has been
transformed into a visible colour
based on its redshift or blueshift.
Selecting a pixel takes the radio
spectrum (light) and transforms
it into sound.
You can listen to, and explore,
the structure of the spiral arms.
https://github.com/agentGav/binary-dust

21. Monophony
Pitch
Chant
Polyphony
Harmony
Madrigals
Baroque
Form
Harmony
Refinement
Bach, Mozart,
Handel
Symphonic
Operatic
Romantic
Beethoven,
Wagner,
Stravinsky
Dissonance
Mathematics
Primes
Messiaen,
Glass
Lattice
Mass
Grain
Texture
Cage,
Wishart
Dimensionality
Curvature
Gravitation
Symmetry
Manifold
Spin
...?
… 1400s … 1500s .... 1600s … 1700s … 1800s … 1900s … 2000s …

22. Music of the hypersphere?

23. Designing a soniverse

24. The mathematics of structure, as spoken
through grains of rendered sound,
hewn from binary dust...
@binarydust www.BinaryDust.org