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Paul Goodfellow
Dr Paul Goodfellow is an artist and academic with an interest in the application of systems and processes in the understanding of nature and art. He has a particular interest in the application of systems within painting and the dialectical tension and divergence between the applied rules and the emergent paintings. With a background in environmental science and systems thinking, he is interested in the aesthetic and affective experience of information and the liminal spaces which emerge between the subject and its simulation in data. He employs surveying, data collection and image processing methods derived from geography, earth science and media art into his art practice to explore spatial and temporal patterns which exist in both nature and information about nature. His current research explores how we have shifted our attention from a material engagement with the Earth to a primary engagement with systems which describe and simulate the Earth. He describes this shift in focus to secondary information as the ‘post-systems condition’, which manifests as a deep longing for a lost nature. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
Contact: Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8ST, UK.