David Lomas
Biographic Data
| ID | 3975574 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Lomas |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Lomas |
| SIGNATURE | LOMAS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Tate Sensorium
Tate Sensorium” was a project by creative partnership Flying Object at Tate Britain in 2015 that explored experimentally the scope for enhancing the experience of visual art by the addition of sounds, taste, touch and smell. As discussed by Tom Pursey, co-creator of “Tate Sensorium”, four major works were chosen from Tate Britain’s collection. Introducing new technologies from the field of virtual reality, “Tate Sensorium” aimed to produce an exp…
Artist-Sorcerers
The article explores certain ramifications of mimicry as a theme in surrealist art and writing, with particular reference to the self-presentation of surrealist artists such as Max Ernst. It is concerned with a set of connections between mimicry, masquerade and hysteria, all of which have in common a tendency to simulation. In his extensive writings on the subject of mimicry, initially in a surrealist milieu, Roger Caillois likened mimicry in ins…
Remedy or Poison? Diego Rivera, Medicine and Technology
This article takes Diego Riveras History of Cardiology (1943-44) murals as the basis for a discussion of the relatively neglected role of medicine in his works address of issues of technology and modernity. It is concerned with the intrinsically pharmakon-like character of technology, its dual proclivity for both good and evil, and analyses the rhetorical and visual strategies by which Rivera strove to ensure that its beneficent side would prevai…
Modest recording instruments’
The cross‐disciplinarity of surrealism demands a broader inquiry than traditional art history permits. The proliferation of graphic traces in the repertory of scientific imaging practices from the mid‐nineteenth century onwards is explored in this article as a background to surrealist visual automatism. New mechanical technologies for the registration of invisible bodily and psychic processes brought about a revolution within representational pra…
Modest Recording Instruments ’
The cross‐disciplinarity of surrealism demands a broader inquiry than traditional art history permits. The proliferation of graphic traces in the repertory of scientific imaging practices from the mid‐nineteenth century onwards is explored in this article as a background to surrealist visual automatism. New mechanical technologies for the registration of invisible bodily and psychic processes brought about a revolution within representational pra…
A Canon of Deformity
Modest Recording Instruments ’
The cross‐disciplinarity of surrealism demands a broader inquiry than traditional art history permits. The proliferation of graphic traces in the repertory of scientific imaging practices from the mid‐nineteenth century onwards is explored in this article as a background to surrealist visual automatism. New mechanical technologies for the registration of invisible bodily and psychic processes brought about a revolution within representational pra…
A Canon of Deformity
A Canon of Deformity
Modest recording instruments’
The cross‐disciplinarity of surrealism demands a broader inquiry than traditional art history permits. The proliferation of graphic traces in the repertory of scientific imaging practices from the mid‐nineteenth century onwards is explored in this article as a background to surrealist visual automatism. New mechanical technologies for the registration of invisible bodily and psychic processes brought about a revolution within representational pra…
Modest Recording Instruments ’
The cross‐disciplinarity of surrealism demands a broader inquiry than traditional art history permits. The proliferation of graphic traces in the repertory of scientific imaging practices from the mid‐nineteenth century onwards is explored in this article as a background to surrealist visual automatism. New mechanical technologies for the registration of invisible bodily and psychic processes brought about a revolution within representational pra…
Remedy or Poison? Diego Rivera, Medicine and Technology
This article takes Diego Riveras History of Cardiology (1943-44) murals as the basis for a discussion of the relatively neglected role of medicine in his works address of issues of technology and modernity. It is concerned with the intrinsically pharmakon-like character of technology, its dual proclivity for both good and evil, and analyses the rhetorical and visual strategies by which Rivera strove to ensure that its beneficent side would prevai…
Artist-Sorcerers
The article explores certain ramifications of mimicry as a theme in surrealist art and writing, with particular reference to the self-presentation of surrealist artists such as Max Ernst. It is concerned with a set of connections between mimicry, masquerade and hysteria, all of which have in common a tendency to simulation. In his extensive writings on the subject of mimicry, initially in a surrealist milieu, Roger Caillois likened mimicry in ins…
Tate Sensorium
Tate Sensorium” was a project by creative partnership Flying Object at Tate Britain in 2015 that explored experimentally the scope for enhancing the experience of visual art by the addition of sounds, taste, touch and smell. As discussed by Tom Pursey, co-creator of “Tate Sensorium”, four major works were chosen from Tate Britain’s collection. Introducing new technologies from the field of virtual reality, “Tate Sensorium” aimed to produce an exp…
Art (6 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Visual arts (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art history (3 works) · Museums and Cultural Heritage (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Art, Technology, and Culture (2 works) · Automatism (medicine) (2 works)