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Guided tour 2 -- Helen Pritchard

Falling in love / the dolphin and the geographer...

http://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org/inventory/?039
Drawing on Ahmed's work
"Femke and Jara riffing off each other"
volumetric type technologies


A safe space to do research -- clumsiness as a queer concept
crip studies
queer ethics of engaging with things
bodies do or don't obey commands
clumsiness ethics in a world of straight lines

activities that bring you up against wall
disobedient (computational) paths

Probable -- a generative possibility
smashing methodologies

http://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org/inventory/?033

ethic of clumsiness
awkward lumpy mass

encact clumsy widening? in relation to so called nature objects

the eiffeltower, a tree and a bracelet

it is not made of straight lines
no hard boundary

this opens up for ossibiities of 3D printing that inhabits space-time of plants, 
space-time of plants

not one-to-one

think of practices of 3D printing

shoot  soot ?
microwave a potato, take pictures, and that's how to record its 

what a frog sounds like
or doesn't
this problematize the idea of "perfect mapping of reality"

are these human and non-human bodies that include ... s oil ... climates 

body in motion, always in the process of re-orientating

exile and home coming
disorientating ouselves away from objects -- like trying this inventory -- 
movement of arrival and departure in which you start orienting yourself towards objects in the inventory

new spaces, new objects
re-orienting away 

"things just compute"

ref. Wendy Chun


the only way computers can be transparent (mith: you can't have correlation between data and representation) is forgetting processes

item 33 alert us to the forgettings

each of the items could be thought of as a way to generate new proposals in order to orient towards other ways to relate with 3D...

(entanglements) 
how this body in motion will orient towards other practices not in terms of attention with the efficiency, but of clumsy computation?

desire for efficiency vs clumsy computation
vs particular musculous straight lines that efficiency orients us towards

re-rotate Pascal's object again
rememberBarad about the queerness of life. Organic or inorganic, animate or inanimate is not an ufolding algorithm

"straying from calculable parts" (Barad)


life itself is already inventive

think about the inventiveness of matter and/or the inventiveness of life
perhaps re-work the notion of inventive?(alerting from its colonial past)
ripping out inventing of its imperial and colonial past

thinking about posthumanism and new-materialis, thinking as inventory as modes of creativity and 

depressing 3d-modelling
easy to fall into the loop

it is not inert matter

framework of trans*materialities, taken from Barad

trans is quite a difficult process, even in trans-disciplinary situations

Barad: "the imaginative capacities": the speculative space of matter

transwork is difficult, but also has a compliancy to mapping 
reticulence (!), resistance

ripping innovation out of neo-liberal business of invention and inventiveness

computation doesn't care, but we form attachment
optimism keeps us in proximity
Vicky K i rby (?) (from Harvey and Knot?)
there's a particular optimism that we must have (not as in goodism), but that keeps us in proximity

how to (not) make a difference while wanting to change things

reminiscent of particularforms that have remanescence in geography -- and those have been used in the anthropocene discussion

volumetrics and geologists

ideaof the human body ofnow having such a form that is actually affecting earth forms

changes in volume: climate, xxxx

anthropocene naturalizes a particular kind of volumentrics

this may lead us to one in particular(linking atropocene and volumetrics) one industry about mining
modelling around mining

[---> one addition to the continuum: extractivist industry!]

feminst technosciences working on the microbiome: bacterias moving between bodies and the environment
obviously has been worked to think about the ontology of the body
jamie l orimer - how might we re-wild the microbiom?

what do bacteria do to the ontology of the body


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http://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org/inventory/?035

Sina's dificult forest: proposes us to understand the fores t as a particular 

memoirs, the forrest as a lively inventive and creative body
develop a memoir of the forrest, not a reproduction/scan

who gets to use these tech

for instance google has been doing a massive forest mapping project

Vicky kirby ?:
quantum anthropologies

magic of translation between local and global -> fornsic 3D modellingand what kinds ofproblematics that brings
collecting datasets asa mystical act


local - global

diffractive memory

the surface is encounterd, but what does it mean to encounter surfaces? 

it affects us and we affect it
think about the diffractive method, an emergent feminist tool, to think about differences and alternatives 

http://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org/inventory/?053

barad's diffraction: she discribes when clouds and moon somehow merge, and that effect does not belong to any of them
fuzzy things around the moon

emergences that are processesof bending, spreading, and how things disrupt surfaces

diffraction is an optical metaphor
it's easy to think about what these tech can't do, but that's only if we think about representations, not if we think about diffractive practices


the way a particular apparatus is used to see light (particules)

not how to create clear limits, but to see how differences can emerge
a located scanning without a fixed location

in sina's work there is a particular body involvement: body is not a stable entity

what does it mean in computational modelling as to the phisics barad uses to that?


Haraway has been thinking about the way in which the researcher should recognise herself as entangled

how the researcher gets entangled
no mutually witnessing here
it's definitely not a method in which the researchand the researcher are not separated

visibility/invisibility of researchers in tools, technologies

we look at video of Haraway
readng national geographic to primates
thinking about interenet cats

look at particular stories of this
it matters what matters, it matters what stories
what knows know knows
what stories tell stories
what world world worlds
it matters what matters

layer-cake as the research
partial perspective: we are always choosing a cut
describing crumbs as the troubles and pleasures of research

we cannot stand back
sticky, messy situation and we are implicated

the diffractive methods allows space for the tools to do with research, not just to observe them

might be throught the smell of machinery, or 3D printers...etc

sensorial qualities of research -- in difficult forest there is a real sensorial 
ref difficult forrest and how it smells

modelling shell surfaces (it is a massive area in 3d modelling)
to the understanding of shell formation -- a genealogy (quite long) of shell modeling

from descartes ' understanding of generative curves, for example
shell morphologies and their possible forms

the possible shell bodies -- what makes a sucesfull model and one thats not sucesful? --> a descriptive one would be taken as successful

non-occuring forms
species categories and their racism through modelling non-occuring forms

the hyperbolic space -- flipping in-out, forwards-backwards

http://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org/inventory/?005

thank you for jumping scale from bacteria to mining/extracti vism
lisa nakamura

clumy means not glitchy (in compitation)
awkward and clumsy? vs diffraction?

different relations to the obstacle -- different behaviour to that of diffraction rays
(staying with the trouble)

dilettantism -- to learn -- to do it yourself

professionalism

erin manning diffracted by kerby
matter and meaning

giving (?) access to world