摘要：Accidental Journey is an artist‘s book, nominally about the moon and astronomy, which con-tains images, factual and fictional texts, documents of my own and others‘ research, trav-els, illustrations, scientific diagrams, and so on. However, it is as much concerned – re-flexively – with the processes of speculation, compilation and research. On occasion the writings of Vilém Flusser are cited but his thinking pervades the book and my own thought processes and actions. The book was put together in tandem with a long anima-tion of an orbit around the moon, illustrations of which feature on a page at the end of the publication. The animation is 118 minutes in duration and its length corresponds to the time taken by the Apollo command module to make a single lunar orbit. It was made using a computer with the tools familiar to those who work in the film and television in-dustries. However, the environment in which it was made differed radically from such studios and workshops. It was modelled and rendered on a single computer in a small room that in a previous life had been used as a store room or broom cupboard, similar in size, as it happened, to the command module itself. The animation is made up of ap-proximately 177,000 frames, with three passes per frame, with the entire rendering taking approximately one year. While the computer was labouring away frame by frame, it seemed appropriate to draw together some of the thinking, source material and research which led to the project in the first place.
