Book Published 13 November 2009 For immediate release DATA SOLILOQUIES Richard Hamblyn & Martin John Callanan
ISBN 978-0903305044 • £7.99 112 pp • small format hardback • 26 colour illustrations • 21 pages of plates Data Soliloquies is a witty and insightful book about the theatricality of scientific data, exploring the profusion of graphs, charts, computer models and other forms of visual advocacy that are now inescapable fixtures of public science displays. Through a mix of essays and artworks, his engaging science/art book — the result of a collaboration between Richard Hamblyn and Martin John Callanan during their terms as writer and artist in residence at the UCL Environment Institute — examines the extraordinary cultural fluidity of scientific information, while critiquing some of the statistically compromised wallpaper that surrounds so much public science debate. With a foreword by Prof. Mark Maslin, Director of the UCL Environment Institute. About the authors Richard Hamblyn is an environmental writer and historian. His books include Terra: Tales of the Earth, The Cloud Book, and The Invention of Clouds, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. Martin John Callanan is an artist whose work spans numerous media and engages both emerging and commonplace technology. His work includes translating active communication data into music; freezing in time the earth’s water system; writing thousands of letters; capturing newspapers from around the world as they are published; taming wind onto the Internet and broadcasting his precise physical location live for over two years. Martin is currently Teaching Fellow in Fine Art Media at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. The UCL Environment Institute was established in November 2003 as a focus for interdisciplinary environmental research across UCL, as well as to improve links between those who carry out environmental research, and those with need of its findings, notably policy makers and other public and private sector interests. Web address for publication: http://sladepress.com For further information, author interviews and distribution enquires, contact: [email protected] or +44 (0)20 7679 2336 images for publication can be downloaded from http://sladepress.com _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
