<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Thanks, Erin, for your post introducing your research project — to literally locate ‘data visualization in concrete bodies and geographies.’ It sounds as if you are in the process of developing a sculptural installation?—maybe with </div><div class="">sound—? riffing off the intermingling of scale (half-scale furniture, angelic apparitions, the large mass of the McGlynn statue of Fatima)… and maybe even the role of ‘amanuensis’ — McGlynn’s vis a vis Lucy, Lucy vis a vis the Virgin Mary at Fatima, you vis a vis McGlynn (via Father McAlister)? What a tangled, delirious and revelatory knot!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What I love about this brief is how you point out the critical location of the ‘conduit’ - this ‘ability to act as a conduit’ you point out - is this ability a subject’s opportunity— like yours, like mine, like a cyborg’s, like an angel’s, … </div><div class="">such that oh! data visualization isn’t just ‘dematerialized’ through statistical reference, or condensed in algorithmic compressions. On the contrary, ‘visualization’ is actually- possibly- only? via the conduit of sense. Sense in an enormous range implicating much more than the purely optic, or scopic…. ‘data visualization’ not limited to retinal retention, as fine tuned as such may be in humans and machines. And, the relationship of ‘truth’ or ‘revelation’ of truth isn’t limited to computation of effects. What more is here? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thinking about the apparition and the sculpture and the reliquarization of artifacts around the studio of the sculptural making, I imagine these as luscious layered waves, like surf crashing on an ocean shore, one following the last, amplifying the last, then dissipating as the conduit paths touch, like rivulets, in sand. ‘instantaneous’ transformations of algorithmics in big data flows — are not instantaneous after all— so that there’s got to be a shape of time (Kubler).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m hoping there’s a new Fatima-McGlynn inspired work coming that somehow builds on your “Traces to Form Concrete Thoughts” of 2015, Erin… <a href="http://www.erinleland.com/site/Erin_Leland.html" class="">http://www.erinleland.com/site/Erin_Leland.html</a> Do you have links to any work in progress? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">best, </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Christina </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">On Jul 1, 2016, at 1:22 PM, Erin Leland <<a href="mailto:erin.leland1@gmail.com" class="">erin.leland1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><div class="">----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------</div><div class="">I would like to introduce a body of research I have been working on in dialogue with a deceased sculptor, Thomas McGlynn, in response to the feminist call “to locate data visualization in concrete bodies and geographies” as quoted by Catherine d'Ignazio. Thomas McGlynn was a liturgical sculptor whose most well-known sculpture was of Our Lady of Fatima, sculpted under the guidance of Lucy, a nun who witnessed a reappearing apparition in Fatima, Portugal in 1917. McGlynn's original sculpture was based on his own imagination of the appearance of the angel, but as soon as he gained permission to see Lucy, McGlynn realized that he needed to completely remake the statue into Lucy's remembered vision. Thus, the sculptor became a conduit for a female witness. Lucy even touched the clay herself, molding the figurine into her exact recollection. </div><div class="">Today, a Reverend named Father Richard McAlister takes care of McGlynn's sculpture archives on the campus of Providence College, and has recreated the sculptor's Italian apartment in exact replica up to one half inch of the original. McGlynn's original furniture and belongings are intermingled with the belongings of Father Richard McAlister. Stored in drawers and closets, the objects include papers, shoe boxes, a head to a garden hose, and clothes. The replica apartment room is an object, a container for a sculptor's body. Its soul is found not so much in the identical fabrication of its original, but in the contemporary scrap objects incorporated into its shelves. In turn, the apartment channels Thomas McGlynn's own sculptural process of transferring Lucy's voice through clay, the figurine as a molded container for a female voice. It is in the ability to act as a conduit for another person that the visualization of a voice can take place. </div><div class="">_______________________________________________</div><div class="">empyre forum</div><div class=""><a href="mailto:empyre@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au" class="">empyre@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au</a></div><div class=""><a href="http://empyre.library.cornell.edu" class="">http://empyre.library.cornell.edu</a></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Christina McPhee</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">v/t (01) 8058780301</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><a href="http://christinamcphee.net" class="">http://christinamcphee.net</a></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">insta: naxqqsmash</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div></div>
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