Victorians Decoded - Scrambled Messages in Wonderland, St Anne's College Oxford, April 2016

<i>Victorians Decoded: Art and Telegraphy</i> celebrated the 150th anniversary of the first successful communications cable laid across the Atlantic Ocean, connecting Europe with America. A collaboration between Guildhall Art Gallery, King's College London, The Courtauld Institute of Art and the Institute of Making at University College London, the exhibition used iconic Victorian paintings and early telegraphic objects to explore how cable telegraphy transformed people's understanding of time, space and speed of communication.<br><br>This item contains a copy of the paper 'Monstrous Proportions: Mapping and Manipulation' and accompanying slides delivered by Newland at a meeting with Scrambled Messages research partners Citizen Science project in Oxford. Newland's paper looked at telegraphic ideas of stretching and scale and demonstrated how our ideas of telegraphy are influenced by 19th century mapping processes and also the way in which telegraphy influenced those very mapping processesthemselves.<br><b>The work is under copyright and may not be used without permission. Use of this repository acknowledges cooperation with its policies and relevant copyright law.</b><br>

<i>《解码维多利亚时代：艺术与电报》（Victorians Decoded: Art and Telegraphy）为纪念首条横跨大西洋、连接欧洲与美洲的成功通信电缆铺设150周年而举办。本次展览由伦敦市政厅美术馆（Guildhall Art Gallery）、伦敦国王学院（King's College London）、考陶尔德艺术学院（The Courtauld Institute of Art）与伦敦大学学院制造研究所（Institute of Making at University College London）联合呈现，通过标志性维多利亚时代绘画作品与早期电报实物，探讨有线电报如何重塑了人们对通信的时间、空间与速度的认知。<br><br>本数据集包含纽兰在牛津举办的“加密讯息”（Scrambled Messages）研究合作方公民科学项目研讨会上发表的论文《畸形比例：测绘与操控》（Monstrous Proportions: Mapping and Manipulation）及配套演示幻灯片。纽兰的论文聚焦电报语境下的拉伸与尺度概念，阐释了19世纪测绘流程如何影响人们对电报的认知，同时揭示了电报反过来对这类测绘流程本身产生的塑造作用。<br><br><b>本作品受版权保护，未经许可不得擅自使用。使用本数据集即表示您同意遵守其相关政策与现行版权法律。</b>