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Masters' class on PossibleBodies
24/10 -- 15.45-18.45
15:45 INTRO (30 min)
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in the context of a speculative fiction in design reasearch and experimentation.
This class proposed as a guided tour through some items in the inventory,
+ methodogical details from a 'disobedient action-research' => inventory, rotations/iterations/displacements, tool description/archaeology, cultural studies of science and technology, semiotic-material approach.
Focus: The Phenonema / of 3D / and its emergent / objectsubjects
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We are working with/on volumes, computation and so-called bodies.
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Bodies are a technological construction, in an industrial continuum of a political fiction // biopolitics, thanatopolitics and the invention of the clinic / Body as a political fiction, and femininity and masculinity as anatomical truths resulting from a performative standarisation [min 21.13]
https://
youtu.be/4aRrZZbFmBs?t=21m13
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reinforced antropocentrism in times of the quantified self... the body somehow becomes the self for some insdustrial apparatuses. // are we human? cybernetics, ecofeminism, posthumanism, nn.mm. / MakeHuman
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http://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org/inventory/?017
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We are in the middle of a research on the tension between the probable and the possible.
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inventorying as a method, so we selected some items to tour through // not an archive, nor a collection, nor a repository. Inventory related to invention, but also to commerce. // Interest in: finding ways to collectively specify and take stock, to prepare for eventual replacement, repair or replenishment. // Inventorying is a hands-on practice of readying for further use, not one of account-giving for the sake of legitimation. //As an "onto-epistemological" practice, it is as much about recognizing what is there (ontological) as it is about trying to understand (epistemological). // with its roots in the culture of manufacture, inventorying counts on cultural reflection as much as on action.
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disobedient action-research (zines, reports, misuses...) // disobedience -- invokes and invites further remediations that can go from the academic paper to the readme, from the narrative to the diagramatic, from tool mis-use to interface re-design and from bug-report to the dancefloor. It provides us with inscriptions, de-scriptions and re-interpretations of a vocabulary under development. / reMakeHuman
http://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org/inventory/assets/reMakeHuman/
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language is important: naming, unnaming, renaming, noting, tagging, verbalizing... / World setting for beginners
http://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org/inventory/?007
Technologies
involved in volume management (3D):
The continuum:
http://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org/inventory/?074
Think together about other areas. Explain about models, data, methods slipping from one industry to another. Working through math: logic, formulas, topology, xyz, ...
hollywood
military & borders
archaeology
extractivism / minery
biomedical imaging
architectonic
fashion
porn
museology
16:15 PHENO
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10
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Para esta rotación, Possible Bodies gira hacia los fenómenos del 3D.
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n el contexto de Bau (Centro Universitario de Diseño de Barcelona), nos preguntamos cómo tomar el dispositivo de escaneo, modelado y traqueo 3D si realidad no implica ni hecho ni verdad, y virtualidad no significa ni ficción ni mentira. Del diseño de videojuegos a la moda, del diseño de interiores al grafismo, del audiovisual a la fabricación... el diseño funciona en el continuum industrial de las tecnologías 3D y todas esas industrias están entramadas en y afectadas por la producción de los (llamados) cuerpos y (sus) verdades.
El régimen de verdad de la modernidad afecta aún tangiblemente las vidas cotidianas y cómo éstas se viven. Lo que nos preocupa en Possible Bodies es la forma en que los cáculos volumétricos y su matriz tecnológica se infunden con la ciencia anatómica, combinada con un entendimiento paramétrico de la materia y ciertos modos rígidos de perspectiva. De manera conjunta parecen haber alcanzado intactos las tecnologías 3D, arrastrando sus valores coloniales, racistas, misóginos, edadistas y capacitistas hasta su código-base, el diseño de sus interfaces, la cultura visual y los métodos pedagógicos.
Karen Barad habla de los fenómenos (phenomena) que resultan de las "
intra-acciones de múltiples dispositivos de producción corporal
". La noción de phenomena ayuda a entender que los cuerpos son producciones tecnológicas y calculadas que hemos aprendido a comprender y habitar. De forma torpe y urgente tomamos la mano de Barad y preguntamos: si los cuerpos son ficciones políticas vivas, ¿cuál es el cuerpo fenomenal de las verdades 3D? Y seguiremos: ¿cómo podemos proveernos de procesos de desarrollo de herramientas y vocabularios de 3D que extiendan las ficciones corporales más allá -o más acá- del régimen de la modernidad?
16:25 TOUR (40 minutes)
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on agency:
the real, computed:
languaging/vocabularies:
captured bodies:
political/tactic:
17:05 BREAK (15 min)
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17:20 EXPLAIN METHOD + QUESTIONS/DISCUSSION
(10
min
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-what "we"? / a question on agency: how to assume being fictional without leaving our responsibilities.
-lexicon/vocabulary for the possible
-3D technologies at the industrial continuum of technocolonialism in turbocapitalism
-volume and truth regimes: tools for volumetrically shaping the processes of identification with the apparatus of normalisation. // truth regimes are linked to property regimes, so...what tools could be designed and placed in place for/by inapropriate/d others?
-from probable to possible bodies
17:30 EXERCISE
-2 groups of 3, or 3 of 2-
(60min)
possible exercises:
-diagram a 3D phenomenon
from the inventory
/ then, yuxtapose
18:30 FEEDBACK, DISCUSSION (15min)
18:45 END
materials to bring:
-continuum zine
-scissors
-abstract
feat. pritchard
zine
+ Publications:
http://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org/inventory/?publications
