Detail of Detail - Dispatx Art Collective Spring 2005

It is one of the more startling facts of modern science that a simple non-linear equation can, in the appropriate circumstances, provide infinitely many different values. Seemingly tiny variances in initial input can lead to increasing divergence of algorithmic output - which is not always intuitively the case.

And yet complex dynamical systems can and frequently do exhibit this type of behaviour - small input, big change. Another way to think about this behaviour is to see it as a phase transition, or a process moving from one state to another - from gas to liquid, liquid to solid or from colour to colour.

Such concepts as the cumulative evolution of information, trying to isolate the moment of change, as well as the detail's relationship to the overall, can be seen to underpin many of the works in the Spring 2005 edition of Dispatx : Detail of Detail.

In the case of Bullet Pool, by Antonia Clevedon, cut-up text and dialogue seem to approach a strange and pulsating narrative, a kind of meta-text that flickers in and out of our perception. In Elmore Fisher's Grapheme collated images have been juxtaposed to suggest multi-narratives that move beyond the edges of the frame of the comic strip.

Other works such as Contexto en Común, by Natalia Guarin and Ignacio Coló, explore the perception and selection of detail as real change - how different interpretations of shared information can lead to vastly differing resultant meaning. This problem of conflicting intention and interpretation is dealt with in another way in A Chirograph - the result of an attempt by Stephen Levy and Francis Caintor to extract latent information from a typed document.

The initial storyboards for the video work Historia de un Detalle by CINELOCURA, still visible in the Creative Method pages, suggested that an allegory of an individual's life could be constructed purely from the banal details comprising it. However, greater levels of complexity within the film are revealed upon repeated viewing. Contrasting paces interact throughout - from the irregular and unpredictable rhythm of the editing, to the contrast between the still and moving image - and yet further potential emerges from the peripheral detail - fleeting appearances of people and actions suggest countless other stories contained within this one.

Both the drawings and the writing within David Stent's To Smoke use simple restraints to contain and shape an exploration of a seemingly simple activity - smoking a cigarette. Through the work's considered repetition, a delicate level of complexity begins to emerge, functioning in a way quite different from any one of its parts.

A strong relationship exists between the works Sense Titol, by Andrea & Vanessa Oniboni, and Papers, by Ruth Lepson, James Carson and Cheryl Clarke. Instead of simply being read, these works have been removed and reinterpreted - distancing them from the language of the original and moving them toward something more implicit. Musicality, rhythm, tone and phrasing are all considered in both these projects, albeit in different ways - areas also touched on very clearly in Dominic Lash's Naked Fire Gesture. The complexities of pattern and invention within the music of Cecil Taylor are explored, augmented by seemingly similar recollections of two separate concert performances.

We have said that levels of detail at different scales, of interpretive change and phase transition, are central to this issue of Dispatx Art Collective: Detail of Detail. Each of these works has explored different aspects of these ideas - like musical variations, each has not strayed so far from the one before that its path is unrecognisable - however, we have also seen that variation in the starting-points has lead to significant variation in the works making up this edition.

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