*OTHER GEOMETRIES

*Meeting here: https://bbb.constantvzw.org/b/f_s-csq-mbl-bl7

Other Geometries is an ongoing demand for re-imagining togetherness with difference. How do figures such as mycellia, distributed networks, archipelagos and Agaricia Agaricites or Lettuce Coral disorient the normativity of symmetry, queery homophily and vibrate Euclidean axioms … or not? Part playful provocation, part collaborative study-kit, Other Geometries is committed to spark conceptual framings for eccentric relationalities. 
To read more: https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/the-eternal-network/ (pp.116)


THURSDAY 5/11

14:50 Welcome + situating the infrastructure + introduce yourself/your work through a geometrical/mathematical figure of your choice (ca. 5m per person)

15:00 Introduction to the reader, and reading for Friday https://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org/othergeometries/2020/othergeometries_reader.pdf

15:50: Break

16:10 Other Geometries: presentation/performative guided tour (Femke)

17:30 END

-> upload an image, document, other materials here: https://cloud.constantvzw.org/s/G2bSdCRs7GWWSw2

FRIDAY 6/11

14:00: Collective reading of Sarah Ahmed, "Orientations Disorientation and queer objects"
text here: https://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org/othergeometries/2020/Disorientation%20and%20queer%20objects%20-%20Sara%20Ahmed.pdf
through Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, "Queerying Homophily."
{sorry I won't be able to join you during the collective reading, hopefully I can make it afternoon session}{Aiste}
16:00 break

16:30-19:00 Re-discussing figures (also in relation to each other) / triangulated conversations (40mins each, max 3 people per slot)

16:30 DALIA (18:00?)
17:10 JO KALI  GEORGIE SINCLAIR Céline + Femke
18:00 Aiste (moved, hope ok?)
18:40 nko Jurgis Guoda + Femke
19:20 



[for those who want + can, short check in + goodbye at 19:00]


SITUATED INFRASTRUCTURES

https://constantvzw.org/wefts/distant-elephant.en.html

READER

- Ahmed, Sara. "Orientation towards objects." In: Queer phenomenology: Orientations, objects, others. Duke University Press, 2006, pp. 25-63 
- Amaro, Ramon. "Artificial Intelligence: warped, colorful forms and their unclear geometries." In: Danae Io and Callum Copley, eds. Schemas of Uncertainty: Soothsayers and Soft AI. Amsterdam: PUB/Sandberg Instituut, 2019, pp. 69-90. 
- Berlant, Lauren. "The commons: Infrastructures for troubling times." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 34, no. 3 (2016): 393-419. 
- Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong. "Queerying Homophily.", In: Apprich, Clemens, Florian Cramer, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, and Hito Steyerl. Pattern discrimination. meson press, 2018. 
- Da Silva, Denise Ferreira. "1 (life)÷ 0 (blackness)=∞–∞ or∞/∞: On matter beyond the equation of value. e-flux, 79." (2017). 
- Da Silva, Denise Ferreira. "On difference without separability." 32nd Bienal De Sao Paulo Art Biennial, “Incerteza viva" (2016). 
- Gumbs, Alexis Pauline, and Julia Roxanne Wallace. "Black Feminist Calculus Meets Nothing to Prove." Are All the Women Still White?: Rethinking Race, Expanding Feminisms (2016): 305. 
- McKittrick, Katherine. "Mathematics Black Life." The Black Scholar 44, no. 2 (2014): 16-28. 

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Aistė Ambrazevičiūtė
interrelations between nature-based elements, not only the imitation of visual forms, hidden wisdom, beauty of natural form
Romanesco cauliflower; Fibonacci (or: Pingala).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllotaxis

Céline Mathieu
non-permanent materials, flexible modes of production, appropriation of sciences, conceptual and sensory
Affine transformation
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/Fractal_fern_explained.png
"a geometric transformation that preserves lines and parallelism (but not necessarily distances and angles)."
Modest geometry

Dalia Maini
Togetherness as a process of belonging in-becoming, speculative criticality, ecology of existential interdependence. 
Riemann sum: finite approximation. Function or figure?
Differential spaces
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_geometry

Guoda Šulskytė
relates personal and cultural phenomena with scientific practice, critically probe into information, extensive access to material knowledge.
Obsidian. The Fifth Season (N.K. Jemisin). Irregularity.
'Obsidian is hard, brittle, and amorphous' vulcanic

Jo Kalinowska
literary collective, learning is relational, refuses hierarchical pedagogical practices.
Pauline Oliveros Mandala (Aleatory music)
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/75/7b/35/757b354bc17dd1b461be2d8b2b152961.jpg

Georgie Sinclair (plot twist)
literary collective, learning is relational, refuses hierarchical pedagogical practices.
Spiderweb for its extended cognition
“Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible; Shakespeare's plays, for instance, seem to hang there complete by themselves. But when the web is pulled askew, hooked up at the edge, torn in the middle, one remembers that these webs are not spun in mid-air by incorporeal creatures, but are the work of suffering human beings, and are attached to grossly material things, like health and money and the houses we live in.”

Jurgis Bernatonis
computer-generated imagery, protein folding data investigation, possible folding algorithm creation
Flint: geometrical shape or not?
generative, colonization, normalization?

NKO
political terrain of the interwebs, videos, memes and storytelling.
Benfords law (Multiplicative fluctuations)
Gömböc -- mono-monostatic. (in)stability
Marjorie Rice. Self-taught mathematician.  
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_amateur_mathematicians
"You're so hyperbolic"


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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distortion_(optics)

[13:56] F_S : https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/vilnius.othergeometries
[14:00] F_S : https://constantvzw.org/wefts/distant-elephant.en.html
[14:10] nko : Gömböc
[14:10] Aiste : Gömböc
[14:19] F_S : haha sorry
[14:19] F_S : tried to look for sth to explain you
[14:20] F_S : i just saw it
[14:20] F_S : for 3 seconds
[14:21] jo kali : I will also share these later but: https://media.springernature.com/original/springer-static/image/chp%3A10.1007%2F978-3-030-15046-4_4/MediaObjects/472011_1_En_4_Figa_HTML.png
[14:22] jo kali : https://i.pinimg.com/474x/75/7b/35/757b354bc17dd1b461be2d8b2b152961--piano-score-sound-design.jpg
[14:22] jo kali : https://joannakalinowska.wordpress.com/2017/04/03/mandala/
[14:32] nko : figures are not fictions
[14:36] jo kali : “Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible; Shakespeare's plays, for instance, seem to hang there complete by them- selves. But when the web is pulled askew, hooked up at the edge, torn in the middle, one remembers that these webs are not spun in mid-air by incorporeal creatures, but are the work of suffering human beings, and are attached to grossly material things, like health and money and the houses we live in.”
[14:40] F_S : N.K. Jemisin
[14:40] F_S : The fifth season
[14:40] nko : geometry and time // mineralization over millions of years
[14:40] nko : geophysics
[14:45] Dalia : Riemman solid
[14:47] nko : https://www.pinterest.com/pin/322851867014115231/
[14:47] nko : i found some structures
[14:51] nko : hey sorry it killed my computer lol
[14:51] nko : i had too many tabs
[14:53] Jurgis : //diffusion limited aggregation

float steplen = chf("Step_Length");
vector min, max;

getpointbbox(0, "static", min, max);

vector bbcenter = (min+max)/2;
float bbrad = distance(bbcenter, max) + 5 * steplen;

int numbermoving = npointsgroup(0, "move");
//int targetnum = int( 4 * (bbrad*bbrad) * 3.141592 * 8000);
int targetnum = int( 4/3 * (bbrad*bbrad*bbrad) * 3.141592 * 50000)+ 20;

if(numbermoving < targetnum){
    for(int i=0; i < (targetnum - numbermoving); i++){
        vector npos = bbcenter + (normalize(sample_sphere_uniform(nrandom())) * bbrad);
        int newpt = addpoint(0, npos);
        setpointgroup(0, "move", newpt, 1);
        setpointgroup(0, "static", newpt, 0);
    }
}

float maxDist = chf("max_dist");
float stickprob = chf("stick_probability");
float steplen = chf("step_length");

vector min, max;

getpointbbox(0, "static", min, max);
vector bbcenter = (min+max)/2;
float bbrad = distance(bbcenter, max) + 5 * steplen;

int nearpt = nearpoint(0, "static", v@P, maxDist);

if(nearpt > -1){
    if(nrandom() < stickprob){
        setpointgroup(0, "static", @ptnum, 1);
        setpointgroup(0, "move", @ptnum, 0);
    }
}
else{
    if(distance2(bbcenter, v@P) > ((bbrad+3*steplen) * (bbrad+3*steplen))){
        vector npos = bbcenter + (normalize(sample_sphere_uniform(nrandom())) * bbrad);
        v@P = npos;
    }
}
vector vel = volumesamplev(1, 0, v@P);

vector step = nrandom() * {2,2,2} - {1,1,1};
float steplen = chf("Step_Length");

v@P += step * steplen + vel;

//space_colonization 

i[]@associates = array();
float in = ch('infrad');

int nearpt = nearpoint(0, 'nodes', @P,in);
int valarr[] = array(@ptnum);

setpointattrib(0,'associates',nearpt,valarr,'append');
float rad = ch('rad');

int myassociates[] = i[]@associates;

if (len(myassociates)>0){
    vector sum = {0,0,0};
    foreach(int node; myassociates){
    vector nodepos = point (0,'P',node);
    vector dir  = normalize(nodepos - @P);
    sum += dir;
    
    }
    sum  = normalize(sum);
    
   int nnode = addpoint(0, @P+sum*rad);
   setpointgroup(0,'nodes', nnode,1,'set');
   setpointattrib(0,'Cd',nnode,{0,0,0},'set');
   
   int nprim = addprim(0,'polyline');
   addvertex(0,nprim,@ptnum);
   addvertex(0,nprim,nnode);
    }
[14:59] F_S : https://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org/othergeometries/2020/othergeometries_reader.pdf
[14:59] nko : lol jurgis
[15:03] georgie : <3 sara ahmed
[15:03] nko : <333 yes
[15:07] nko : crapularity!
[15:15] nko : ohhhh
[15:15] nko : i was saying that it would be great to do a closer reading
[15:15] nko : no
[15:15] nko : of both
[15:15] nko : yes
[15:16] F_S : diffractive reading
[15:16] F_S : 15:30
[15:16] F_S : 16:30
[15:32] nko : no sorries~!!!
[15:47] nko : IVE USED THIS IMAGE
[15:47] nko : !!!!!!
[15:47] nko : woah
[15:47] Aiste : me too
[15:47] nko : we are connected and disconnected
[15:54] nko : YESSSS
[15:54] nko : THE KLEIN BOTTLE!!!
[15:54] nko : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-Pe1ZMJEXk
[15:55] Céline : https://www.google.com/search?q=lygia+clark&sxsrf=ALeKk03i00X8nbZxqovK7U38K7yL0TUZWA:1604588109967&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwidnrjC1OvsAhVi_SoKHcb7BK4Q_AUoAXoECAQQAw&biw=1213&bih=666
[15:55] Aiste : toay im learning a lot of new Titles:)
[15:55] nko : omgggg i love icosahedrons lol
[15:56] nko : tensors
[15:57] nko : paranodal, the negative space of networks, the noise between nodes and edges
[15:58] nko : https://www.wired.com/2017/07/inside-cubas-diy-internet-revolution/
[16:00] nko : the turduckchicken of geometry?
[16:13] nko : UTOPIA IS DEAD; DYNAMIC TENSION REIGNS
[16:13] Céline : <3
[16:14] Jurgis : :3
[16:14] Aiste : 🍄
[16:15] nko : WE BECOME ROCK NERDS
[16:15] nko : lol, "Youre so hyperbolic" as an insult
[16:17] Dalia : https://www.google.com/search?q=riemannian+space&rlz=1C9BKJA_enIT900IT900&hl=en-GB&prmd=ivn&sxsrf=ALeKk032l3fa0Y5uO15tAHD6v3i_UX_GiQ:1604589390851&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjapZul2evsAhVHDOwKHdq2ApEQ_AUIFCgB&biw=1112&bih=719#imgrc=0HE0DCDOpPRhRM
[16:32] Céline : Jo
[16:37] F_S : https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/vilnius.othergeometries
[16:38] nko : jurgis
[16:41] F_S : see you tomorrow!