The Office of Experiments

THE OFFICE OF EXPERIMENTS

INTRODUCTION

BACKGROUND

FACILITIES

THE TEMOPRARY DEPARTMENT OF EVENOMETRY

LETS EXPERIMENT WITH OURSELVES

TEMPORARY STRUCTURES

PRINCIPLES & ARTICLES

CONTACT

LINKS

THE TEMPORARY DEPARTMENT OF EVENOMETRY

The aim of the Temporary Department of Evenometry at Flat Time House is to disseminate the ideas of John Latham in an appropriate manner. That is, without relying on what John Latham referred to as the verbal idiom.

Some Notes on Evenometry

The idea of the ‘event’ in evenometry can be historically related to the process philosophy of A.N.Whitehead, but is largely concieved in relation to the ideas of the artist John Latham (FLAT TIME THEORY) inspired after his work with Gregory and Cohsen in the Institute of Mental Images (1959).

Evenometry is the mathematical relation of event to time, in the way that geometry is a description of the relation of form to space. All objects and entities (including institutions themselves) are event-structures, that is a series of events that lead to a lasting event with a time base. Therefore each object or institution is not fixed, despite preservation and power, but must at some point finally dissipate, or be subsumed by other events, no matter what the scale of their time base, from the smallest momentary event to geological time. The spatial or surface depiction of form that does not acknowledge time, seeks to imagine an object that has one dimension without the other, it is what Whiteheads refers to as "The Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness," to mistake the abstract for the concrete.

The Temporary Department of Evenometry will explore event and form as abstract and structural ordering element of experiment, as it applies beyond the modernist idea of form and context;

... the ‘modern’ kind of experimentation has been contrasted with ‘post-modern’ forms of experiment. The former, it is argued, relied on clear-cut separations between laboratory and society, facts and values, nature and culture. In contrast, the latter manifests itself as a “socio-technological experiment” (Latour) with no boundaries, “carried out in real time and in the scale of 1:1,” thus retrospectively changing our perspective on the seemingly modern form of experiment.(a).

(a) Introduction to 'The Shape of Experiment' by Hans Jorg Rheinberger of the Max Planck Institute, examining Mirko Grmek and the material logic of experiments.

Evo V Geo Office of Experiments information display at 10th Planet - Bermondsey, London, 2006

Notes to EVO V GEO ( Geometry V Evenometry )

Geometric properties of work as objects in space: material base of form, spatial geometry of work, spatial arrangement of work, works position in gallery space, planetary co-ordinates, address, postcode, county, country, planet, universe

Evenometric properties of work as an event structures in time: the moment now (U-NOW), material duration, fixings, installation to de-install, dates, attention of observers, contingent events, time base of observer (life span), cultural or social interest or effect, institutional time, time base of building, universe time.

globe exp 394: studio space as a globe known to Naumans mouse; white modelling clay, ping-pong ball, observer.

event structure sp 395: non earth event structure, a material yet to be identified on earth - origin unknown; tektite, velcro, ink, observer.

experiment sp 393: theoretical potential of recurring event structure as image in an infinite loop; billiard ball, donkey tail, rubber band, observer.

event structure: a founding document - analysis of reproduction of a one second drawing by john latham given to The Office of Experiments December 2005; computer print on paper, observer.

event structure tool 1: climatic force event effect indicator and euclidean marker
umbrella arms, cable ties, observer.

event structure tool 2: spatial probe and mobile transmission aerial; umbrella arms, steel rod, cable ties, steel stand, observer.

globe event constellation: exformation as a data storage method, that which is between us; dental plaster, ping-pong balls, observer.

event structure tool 3: satellite and spatial and social mapping structure - "if found please return to SPACE ON EARTH STATION (SOES). Satellites to be distributed randomly in spaces during SOES. Those who find them will be asked to return them. 1 of 50.

Event structure: the presence of absence - void and globe test; power, air, moon globe , inflated sphere, observer.

SPACE ON EARTH STATION: module model and geometry - N55 Denmark; steel with rare earth magnet, steel stand

exp model: Phelan-Weaire concept model of bubble formation; paper.

	THE OFFICE OF EXPERIMENTS
INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND FACILITIES THE TEMOPRARY DEPARTMENT OF EVENOMETRY LETS EXPERIMENT WITH OURSELVES TEMPORARY STRUCTURES PRINCIPLES & ARTICLES CONTACT LINKS	THE TEMPORARY DEPARTMENT OF EVENOMETRY The aim of the Temporary Department of Evenometry at Flat Time House is to disseminate the ideas of John Latham in an appropriate manner. That is, without relying on what John Latham referred to as the verbal idiom. Some Notes on Evenometry The idea of the ‘event’ in evenometry can be historically related to the process philosophy of A.N.Whitehead, but is largely concieved in relation to the ideas of the artist John Latham (FLAT TIME THEORY) inspired after his work with Gregory and Cohsen in the Institute of Mental Images (1959). Evenometry is the mathematical relation of event to time, in the way that geometry is a description of the relation of form to space. All objects and entities (including institutions themselves) are event-structures, that is a series of events that lead to a lasting event with a time base. Therefore each object or institution is not fixed, despite preservation and power, but must at some point finally dissipate, or be subsumed by other events, no matter what the scale of their time base, from the smallest momentary event to geological time. The spatial or surface depiction of form that does not acknowledge time, seeks to imagine an object that has one dimension without the other, it is what Whiteheads refers to as "The Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness," to mistake the abstract for the concrete. The Temporary Department of Evenometry will explore event and form as abstract and structural ordering element of experiment, as it applies beyond the modernist idea of form and context; ... the ‘modern’ kind of experimentation has been contrasted with ‘post-modern’ forms of experiment. The former, it is argued, relied on clear-cut separations between laboratory and society, facts and values, nature and culture. In contrast, the latter manifests itself as a “socio-technological experiment” (Latour) with no boundaries, “carried out in real time and in the scale of 1:1,” thus retrospectively changing our perspective on the seemingly modern form of experiment.(a). (a) Introduction to 'The Shape of Experiment' by Hans Jorg Rheinberger of the Max Planck Institute, examining Mirko Grmek and the material logic of experiments. Evo V Geo Office of Experiments information display at 10th Planet - Bermondsey, London, 2006 Notes to EVO V GEO ( Geometry V Evenometry ) Geometric properties of work as objects in space: material base of form, spatial geometry of work, spatial arrangement of work, works position in gallery space, planetary co-ordinates, address, postcode, county, country, planet, universe Evenometric properties of work as an event structures in time: the moment now (U-NOW), material duration, fixings, installation to de-install, dates, attention of observers, contingent events, time base of observer (life span), cultural or social interest or effect, institutional time, time base of building, universe time. globe exp 394: studio space as a globe known to Naumans mouse; white modelling clay, ping-pong ball, observer. event structure sp 395: non earth event structure, a material yet to be identified on earth - origin unknown; tektite, velcro, ink, observer. experiment sp 393: theoretical potential of recurring event structure as image in an infinite loop; billiard ball, donkey tail, rubber band, observer. event structure: a founding document - analysis of reproduction of a one second drawing by john latham given to The Office of Experiments December 2005; computer print on paper, observer. event structure tool 1: climatic force event effect indicator and euclidean marker umbrella arms, cable ties, observer. event structure tool 2: spatial probe and mobile transmission aerial; umbrella arms, steel rod, cable ties, steel stand, observer. globe event constellation: exformation as a data storage method, that which is between us; dental plaster, ping-pong balls, observer. event structure tool 3: satellite and spatial and social mapping structure - "if found please return to SPACE ON EARTH STATION (SOES). Satellites to be distributed randomly in spaces during SOES. Those who find them will be asked to return them. 1 of 50. Event structure: the presence of absence - void and globe test; power, air, moon globe , inflated sphere, observer. SPACE ON EARTH STATION: module model and geometry - N55 Denmark; steel with rare earth magnet, steel stand exp model: Phelan-Weaire concept model of bubble formation; paper.