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At the Lightning Field

Title

At the Lightning Field / Laura Raicovich.

Author

Raicovich, Laura, 1973-

Publication

Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2017.
©2017

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Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Text	Use in library	N6537.D432 A68 2017	Off-site

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Description

89 pages : illustration; 18 cm

Summary

"Walter De Maria's "Lightning Field" is 400 stainless steel poles, positioned 220 feet apart, in the desert of central New Mexico. Over the course of several visits, it becomes, for Raicovich, a site for confounding and revealing perceptions of time, space, duration, and light; how changeable they are, while staying the same. From At the Lightning Field: Chaos and coincidences of history: Edward Lorenz was a meteorologist at MIT in the early 1960s. Looking for a devil in the detail of meteorological data, he was trying to forecast global weather patterns (creating forecasting models that would later be applied to economics and financial analysis). Complicated sets of equations, sometimes arbitrary webs of information, measurements of "initial conditions" churned through a primitive computer. The machine was named the Royal McBee. Laura Raicovich works as President and Executive Director of The Queens Museum. She is the author of A Diary of Mysterious Difficulties, a book based on Viagra and Cialis spam (Publication Studio) and is an editor of Assuming Boycott: Resistance, Agency, and Cultural Production (O/R Books)"--

Subjects

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN

9781566894661
1566894662

LCCN

2016039378
40027084720

OCLC

ocn959038926
959038926
SCSB-5887465

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Columbia University Libraries