A  L  E  X


H  A  M  I  S  H 


M  I  L  L  A  R








✴  S E L E C T E D   P R O J E C T S


R e v e l a t i o n   E n g i n e ,  2 0 2 4

A n i m i s m s ,  2 0 2 2

T h e   B j e r k n e s   E x p e r i m e n t ,  2 0 2 1
G o l d   H e a d   Y e l l o w   D a n c e r ,  2 0 1 8
I m p o s s i b l e   o b j e c t s




✴  C V  /  C O N T A C T










 ©  A l e x   H a m i s h   M i l l a r   2 0 2 4
Installation detail – 16mm analogue film projection still - 5m 57s


The Bjerknes Experiment combined science-fiction with the history of The Geophysical Institute in Bergen. By displaying both fake and real historical documents, the project hinted at various supernatural anomalies taking place within the institute and encompassing geography. Included within the display as a speculation on these anomalies was material relating to the history of The Geophysical Institute, and the theories of three generations of Bjerknes scientists involved in its creation: Carl Anton Bjerknes and the founders of the Bergen School of Meteorology, Vilhelm (1862-1951) and Jacob Bjerknes (1897 - 1975). The project questioned the materiality of institutional and historical knowledge within the archive and the structures of display that influence our interpretation of information.

        

Installation view – looped 16mm analogue film, 16mm film projector, digital inkjet prints, oak vitrine (blank 16mm film spiral, research material, temperature and humidity sensor, 16mm film camera) – 2022




Installation view – looped 16mm analogue film, 16mm film projector, digital inkjet prints, oak vitrine (blank 16mm film spiral, research material, temperature and humidity sensor, 16mm film camera).






Untitled – detail – framed digital inkjet prints, 50 x 70cm: logo for the Bergen Meteorological Institute at The Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, 15x20cm; post-mortem photograph of Norwegian Physicist Professor Carl Anton Bjerknes (1825 - 1903), National Library of Norway, 20x15cm.






Post-mortem photograph of Norwegian Physicist Professor Carl Anton Bjerknes (1825 - 1903) - National Library of Norway – 20 x 15cm.






Bergen Meteorological Institute logo – 15 x 20cm.






Detail – hand-made oak and glass vitrine – photography and research – 90 x 170 x 80cm.


Contents:

- Bjerknes, Vilhelm, (2013) ‘Fields of Force’. Book on Demand Ltd. Originally published as ‘Fields of     Force: Supplementary Lectures, Applications to Meteorology’ ; a Course of Lectures in Mathematical Physics, 1905.
- Hovland, Edgar, (2007) ‘In the wind: Department of Geophysics 90 years.’ Bergen: Fagbokfor.
- Blank 16mm film spiral.
- Paillard Bolex 16mm analogue film camera, Made in Switzerland, 1958.
- Fake typed letter to Professor Jacob Bjerknes dated October 1959 from Professor Guro Gjellestad, the first female professor at The Geophysical Institute in Bergen.
- Digital Inkjet prints of Nygårdsparken, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, and Professor Guro Gjellestad - a pioneer in the field of palaeomagnetism.






Fake typed letter to Professor Jacob Bjerknes, pioneer in modern wethar forecasting and grandson of Vilhelm Bjerknes, dated October 1959. From Professor Guro Gjellestad, the first female professor at The Geophysical Institute - Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research. 






Bjerknes, Vilhelm, (2013): ‘Fields of Force.’ Book on Demand Ltd. Originally published as ‘Fields of Force: Supplementary Lectures, Applications to Meteorology; a Course of Lectures in Mathematical Physics,’ 1905.




Detail – blank 16mm film spiral.






Detail – 16mm analogue film projection. 





Installation detail – 16mm negative analogue film projection, 5m 57s, silent.