{"id":3996,"date":"2017-01-08T20:57:36","date_gmt":"2017-01-08T20:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/?p=3996"},"modified":"2024-04-12T18:56:38","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T18:56:38","slug":"drawing-machine-a-barograph-repurposed-for-the-purposes-of-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/drawing-machine-a-barograph-repurposed-for-the-purposes-of-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Drawing Machine &#8211; a barograph repurposed for the purposes of art"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art-projects\/contemporary-art-projects-images\/barograph-creating-line-drawing-visual.jpg\" alt=\"Dada or surrealist sculpture - a barograph creating an automatic drawing\" title=\"Surrealism - barograph drawing machine\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Drawing machine.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Study for a proposed sculpture. Photograph of a barograph, digital manipulation. January 2017<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A photograph of a barograph digitally altered so that the arm of the barograph appears to be creating a fine pen and ink drawing of a landscape.<br>A barograph normally draws a graph recording air pressure over the course of time on a sheet of graph paper attached to a rotating drum.<br>This barograph is in the spirit of surrealism and dada &#8211; it is a scientific instrument appropriated for the purposes of art (In C P Snow&#8217;s <em>two cultures<\/em> thesis this would possibly count as cultural appropriation).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drawing machine. Study for a proposed sculpture. Photograph of a barograph, digital manipulation. January 2017 A photograph of a barograph digitally altered so that the arm of the barograph appears to be creating a fine pen and ink drawing of a landscape.A barograph normally draws a graph recording air pressure over the course of time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117,10,16],"tags":[64,44,43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3996"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8293,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996\/revisions\/8293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}