Papers by Dan Frodsham
line of the meridian with the kind of embodied practices that Farman suggests, but he clearly cho... more line of the meridian with the kind of embodied practices that Farman suggests, but he clearly chooses not to do this; ‘chooses’ because, in other work, he engages very directly with processes akin to ‘wayfaring’. Faithfull’s Palm Pilot Drawings (2003-) consist of more than five hundred digital sketches of scenes from his travels around the world. In contrast to the map’s view-fromnowhere, and the claim to objectivity that accompanies this, these simple sketches represent a subjective and perspectival view-from-below that is grounded in the world that is depicted. As Faithful puts it, ‘[t]he practice is an entirely subjective filtering of the world though the wet folds of my brain’ to produce ‘a record of a human standing in front of something’ (Faithfull, 2009: n.p.). Unlike the map, these sketches also present vistas that unfold over time, from one sketch to the next, and sometimes through the use of animation, as in Faithfull’s short film, 13 (2004). The drawings are akin to the s...
The Fibreculture Journal, 2012
There still exist – and there may exist in the future – spaces for play, spaces for enjoyment, ar... more There still exist – and there may exist in the future – spaces for play, spaces for enjoyment, architectures of wisdom or pleasure. In and by means of space the work may shine through the product, use value may gain the upper hand over exchange value: appropriation, turning the world upon its head, may (virtually) achieve dominion over domination, as the imaginary and the utopian incorporate (or are incorporated into) the real.
Emerging Computer Technologies for Cultural Heritage: The Armenian Church, Famagusta
The Armenian Church of Famagusta and the Complexity of Cypriot Heritage, 2017
Talks by Dan Frodsham
The neglect that Famagusta’s cultural heritage has suffered for over four decades as a result of ... more The neglect that Famagusta’s cultural heritage has suffered for over four decades as a result of the ‘Cyprus Problem’ is well known. This presentation (Walsh) and documentary film (Frodsham) nevertheless focus strongly on the emergency stabilisation work that was carried out between 2012-2016, principally on the 14th century murals in the Armenian church in the Syrian quarter of the city. This interdisciplinary project, funded by the World Monuments Fund and led by Nanyang Technological University Singapore, demonstrated clearly the potential that yet exists for art historians specialising in the Medieval eastern Mediterranean, conservators who are prepared to confront the challenge of cement removal from delicate centuries-old plasters, and scholars who are prepared to embrace high-level international and multi-disciplinary collaborations to protect endangered works of art and architecture in this politically sensitive region. It is my contention that if this heritage can be ‘detached’ from the political and legal impasse which has been so detrimental to its welfare, there is yet much hope for this important, and largely neglected, chapter in Cypriot cultural history. The presentation / screening is also timed to coincide with the launch of my latest edited book The Armenian Church of Famagusta and the Complexity of Cypriot Heritage (Palgrave, 2017).
Thesis Chapters by Dan Frodsham
The experimental maps produced by artists working with locative media both bear witness to and pa... more The experimental maps produced by artists working with locative media both bear witness to and participate in a radical reworking of the way in which space is conceived and encountered that destabilizes longstanding assumptions about the nature of representation, knowledge, and power. These mapmaking practices, it is argued, operate at the juncture of a cartographic tradition that entails distinctively modern ways of seeing, knowing, and acting in the world,and digital technologies and software operations that propose alternative ways of linking the world up. The thesis charts how these art maps engage in a critique of cartography, the extent to which they remain indebted to it, but also their use of coded operations to pioneer novel apprehensions of space that mark a decisive ‘break’ with a modern worldview. The map works of locative media are accordingly positioned in relation to what is seen as a paradigmatic shift from Cartographic Space to Code Space, and the analysis of case studies supplies a means of comprehending this ongoing transformation, demonstrating that mapping survives beyond cartography but entails a tearing apart of the cartographic surface and the representational epistemology that accompanies it. Gone are the compass, scale and fix-points by which, for centuries, a sense of place was anchored and the world made knowable, yet to be set adrift in this way is not to be left ‘all at sea’. Working with the novel intuitions, forms and geometries that arise from the operations of software code, post-cartographical mapping practices continue to supply a sense of orientation. However, they also pioneer novel forms of territory, and power over territory, that call for new strategies of counter-mapping and, with it, a ‘post-cartographical’ reframing of the study of locative media. Now pictured as a site of contestation between antithetical spatial paradigms, locative media is rehabilitated as a vital force, operating at a pivotal moment, in a broadly epoch-defining reshaping of space and spatial representation.
Documentary Films by Dan Frodsham
In April 1915 poet Rupert Brooke died and was buried in an olive grove on the Greek island of Sky... more In April 1915 poet Rupert Brooke died and was buried in an olive grove on the Greek island of Skyros. His friend, and fellow naval officer, F. S. Kelly wrote that during the midnight funeral ‘my feelings began to express themselves musically.’ This film is about the piece of music he wrote for his friend before his own violent death a year later. Elegy is a story of friendship and loss - but also the longevity and resilience of art. The return of the music to Skyros in 2025 is a homage to those young men and their distant ideals.
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