Masters' class on PossibleBodies
24/10 -- 15.45-18.45
15:45 INTRO (30 min)--------------------------------
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
*We are working with/on volumes, computation and so-called bodies.
*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=21m13s
*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 + http://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org/inventory/?017
*We are in the middle of a research on the tension between the probable and the possible.
*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.
*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/
*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):
*motion capture
*scanning
*modelling *printing/additive http://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org/inventory/?038
*...
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
*cgi (computer generated imagery) https://assets.rocketstock.com/uploads/King-Kong.jpg
*motion tracking http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lJSVHqlQb88/TDyiRzKuIBI/AAAAAAAAADw/wNn7_0ykBmw/s1600/tecnoloCGI.jpg
military & borders
*militainment http://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org/inventory/?029
*using similar data between military and gaming http://www.elitereaders.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/military-training-video-games-1.jpg
archaeology
*modelling spaces that can not be visited otherwise http://www.3rdtech.com/images/3D_Model.gif
*looking inside a mummy without unpacking it http://cdn2.historyextra.com/sites/default/files/LinenMan_Spatula_02.jpg
extractivism / minery
*soil scanning https://content.satimagingcorp.com/static/galleryimages/pleiades-1-arcscene-3d.jpg
biomedical imaging
*tomography (CT, PET, MRI) https://public.kitware.com/ImageVote/media/pollimages/MICCAI-Hernia.jpg
architectonic
*parametric design of buildings: variation (parametric) vs generation http://technicart.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/3D_Parametric-Model_Cox_Sydney_1.jpg
fashion
*on-line shopping, fabric modelling http://www.technofashion.it/files/2013/04/CC.jpg
porn
*blenderella http://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org/inventory/?001
*3D porn industry https://duckduckgo.com/?q=3d+pornography&t=lm&atb=v80-2_b&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images
museology
*history of the human expo https://cloud.constantvzw.org/apps/gallery/s/FRTWhEzeruC8JSp
*#newpalmyra collective re-construction of Palmyra http://www.newpalmyra.org/models/asad-al-lat/
16:15 PHENOMENA (10 min)--------------------------------
Para esta rotación, Possible Bodies gira hacia los fenómenos del 3D. En 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)--------------------------------
on agency:
*003: Durer -- perspective device // one, still, one-eyed, male, enlightened and representer of an-other naked, asimetrically posed and female. / http://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org/inventory/?003
*026: Psychotechnic checa -- tortured-disoriented subject fragile, ready to declare "truth" http://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org/inventory/?026
*009: NSFW -- emergent subjectivity: hyperproductive and sexualized subject emerges // learning from what datasets contain/preserve/accumulate http://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org/inventory/?009
the real, computed:
*085: Synthetic Pareidolia: Invention/fiction happens with algorithmic processes? What would be volumetric pareidolia, how would it be different? Also: the idea of "false positive"? http://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org/inventory/?085
*084: Goodbye Uncanny Valley -- "photorealism", "unobserved but visually accurate / sucess equals invisibility (vs. Glissant "for opacity") http://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org/inventory/?084 + https://vimeo.com/237568588
languaging/vocabularies:
*059: Anarcha -- renaming - reworlding http://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org/inventory/?059
*028: Circlusion/circluding -- verbalising for decolonising, depatriarchalising & decapitalising http://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org/inventory/?028 + https://circluding.hotglue.me/?trucker
captured bodies:
*068: A>T>horizontalfix>cactus poses to calibrate and acquire: the phenomenal in the domestic http://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org/inventory/?068
*060: we help each other grow http://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org/inventory/?060
political/tactic:
*020: Fag Face -- data realities and their consequences + hide and show simultaneously http://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org/inventory/?020
*046: The Saydanya Project: syrian prison in 3d -- reconstruction as proof // temporality, memory, facilitate material memories emerge? http://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org/inventory/?046
17:05 BREAK (15 min)--------------------------------
17:20 EXPLAIN METHOD + QUESTIONS/DISCUSSION (10 min)--------------------------------
-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