{"product_id":"strange-attractor","title":"Strange Attractor","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“I’m interested in the artists’ attempt to map their world, to order and make sense of it. This activity is not exclusive to artists; people do it constantly to find some relationships to abstractions, global events, invisible machinations of finance and those decisions that affect the future of the world.” —Mark Lombardi\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStrange Attractor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e takes its name from the inherent order embedded in various forms of chaos. Expanding on ideas and connections forged in the 2017 Ballroom Marfa exhibition of the same name organized by Gryphon Rue, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eStrange Attractor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e explores the uncertainties and poetics of networks.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGryphon Rue, a experimental sound artist and curator, brings together artists and practitioners from a variety of fields to converse on the chaos, connections, and interpretations that narrate everyday experiences. The topic of sound pervades the book as a guide and narrator throughout a web of increasingly complex relationships between systems that reveal a backdrop of socio-political power, transmigration, and asylum.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eStrange Attractor includes artworks from Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Thomas Ashcraft, Robert Buck, Alexander Calder, Beatrice Gibson, Phillipa Horan, Channa Horwitz, Lucky Dragons (Luke Fishbeck and Sara Rara), Mark Lombardi, Herbert Matter, Haroon Mirza, Elias Sime, and Douglas Ross, as well as conversations between tropical ecologist Merlin Sheldrake, novelist Chloe Aridjis, and economic sociologist, Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, as well as texts by media art historian, Douglas Kahn, and poet, Bernadette Mayer, among others.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Inventory Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47639788060961,"sku":"9781941753309","price":85.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0781\/9650\/6913\/files\/Screenshot2025-04-27at10.49.29am.jpg?v=1760050915","url":"https:\/\/shop.terrain.earth\/products\/strange-attractor","provider":"TERRAIN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}