A manifesto to celebrate 20 years of Tabletop Experiments.<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n
1. The Tabletop Experiment\nis essentially amateur and DIY in its endeavour. It concerns science as\nrecreation and as a practice that necessitates its own re-creation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
2. It is assembled from items\nreadily available in the home, domestic technology; kitchen utensils, liquid\nsoap or aquarium parts for example. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
3. It is based upon a specific phenomenon\nof interest; an artefact of subjective perception, the physical behaviour of\nliquid, or the physical behaviours of an animal for example. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
4. It is a discrete environment: a device, or instrument, within which a unique phenomenon can exist. Ideally this should be a rapidly developed prototype, which affords an aesthetic interplay between materials and technologies, driven by incidental function and serendipitous accident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
5. Sustain, maintain and nurture: These\nsystems being susceptible to change within themselves and the environment that\ndirectly surrounds them, should be a precariously balanced system which demands\nnurturing. A thing on the cusp of failure. For example; A vortex sustained in a\ncoffee cup, of turbulent patterns of oil on water, or the life of\nmicroorganisms in a single droplet of pond water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
6. Make time for focused study\nand experience. Make use of technologies to extended and expanded observation\nthrough amplification, projection, and magnification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
7. The Tabletop Experiment must be an active process or an artefact of such.
8. Embrace failure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Antony Hall 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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