Wind Tunnel Bulletin #10: Emergence

<p>At what point is something ready to emerge? Or at what point is one ready to perceive something as an emergence? Is it possible to describe something emerging without this causing it to disappear again? These questions are fundamental to the arts and in this issue of the <em>Wind Tunnel Bulletin</em> we will be examining them from various angles, without regard for the intimations of religion or esotericism, which point to miracles— even if wonder and the curiosity that accompanies it are deeply rooted in the material. We share these feelings in the form of calendars, images, texts, screenshots, recipes, annotations, and an interview.</p> <p>The cover contains a contemporary flow visualization, depicting the dispersion of droplets as a person sneezes, taken from the film Respiratory Pathogen Emission Dynamics by the American Medical Association, 2020. In Olaf Nicolai’s frontispiece our planetary cycle is represented as a numerical calendar showing five-day weeks and thirteen months (pp. 286, 299). The <em>Update</em> is a visual manifestation of the time in which this bulletin was produced.</p> <p>Covid-19 pinned us to our homes Today, we have a view of the world that is all but impossible to grasp visually, but, but we are curious to know how we will look back at this in ten years’ time (pp. 288, 297).</p> <p>Christoph Oeschger’s contributions (pp. 292, 293 and 298, 287) look at emergences using two different methods of measurement, while Michael Günzburger focuses on food as a model and deals with its disappearance (pp. 290, 295) or writes convincingly illegible texts (p. 285)…</p>