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<div class="hi">This wiki was a workspace for the making of the book ''Volumetric Regimes'', edited by [https://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org/inventory/ Possible Bodies] (Jara Rocha and Femke Snelting). It is published by Open Humanities Press (2022) in the [http://www.data-browser.net/ DATA browser series], edited by Geoff Cox and Joasia Krysa. Design and lay-out implemented by [https://manettaberends.nl Manetta Berends] based on a [http://www.data-browser.net/design.html template developed by Stuart Bailey].</div>
  
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[[File:VRcover.png|frameless|100px|left]]''Bodies are concrete reality. Bodies are abstract. When bodies are modelled, scanned, generated in virtual realities, and presented back to us and others, are they real, ideal, neutral, skewed? When abstracted bodies speak for us and do things on our behalf, what politics do they enact? This radical multi-form collective investigation traces the cutting edge of how bodies and subjects are rendered technologically. It proposes multi-dimensional forms of intervention, and claims an experimental horizon of the possible, shattering the mantra of unavoidability.'' — Olga Goriunova
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Volumetric Regimes emerges from Possible Bodies, a collaborative project on the intersection between artistic and academic research. The project was initiated in 2016 to explore the very concrete and at the same time complex and fictional entities of so-called "bodies" in the context of 3D computation. Possible Bodies developed alongside an inventory of cases [1] and resulted in texts, workshops, visual essays and performances. This book would bring together diverse materials from an ongoing conversation between artists, software developers and theorists working with the techniques and technologies of detecting, tracking, printing, modelling and rendering.
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''Volumetric Regimes makes an essential contribution to the ways in which we must rethink matter politically and ecologically. As the book unfolds, ontological questions of intensities, dimensions, and substance are denaturalised as mere properties of matter that can be measured, modified, and thus computed, which today are exemplified by 3D modelling and parametric design, but are shown to be part of processional life-worlds that are relational and mutually informed and informing. Not the partitioning of bodies, particles, datapoints, and spaces as techno-capital and techno-science would have it but a material enmeshment that brings the volumetric into presence otherwise.'' — Susan Schuppli
  
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As a field oriented towards the technocratic realm of modern technosciences, 3D computation or measuring of volume has historically unfolded under the regimes of optimisation, normalisation and world order. Such volumetrics are understood here as "the probable" behavior of 3D, which is actively being (re)produced and accentuated by digital hypercomputing. The legacies and projections of industrial development leave traces of an imaginery that tells the story of a lively tension between the probable and the possible. Volumetric Regimes explores the technical, technological, operational, procedural and infrastructural elements that provide with a widening of the possible in contemporary volumetrics.
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== Volumetric Regimes: Material cultures of quantified presence ==
  
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This book will experiment with various formats of writing, publishing and interlocuting. It consists of guided tours, peer-reviewed academic texts, speculative fiction, pamphlets, bug reports, visual essays, performance scripts and inventory items. It will be iteratively written, edited, designed and discussed on a publicly accessible Wiki. Volumetric Regimes pays special attention to design and typography, in correspondence with the project's sensibility to Free Culture and the politics of the way language, forms and shapes are rendered. The polygonal nature of the subject matter necessitated inventive research methods that could widen the spectrum of how Volumetric Regimes can be studied. The publication therefore will provide a substantial contribution to thinking in this field, but also demonstrate the potential of disciplinarily uncalibrated but rigorous research.
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The book will be organised in five chapters, each containing differently formatted materials. Each chapter starts with a commissioned contribution which addresses the material-discursive entanglements that emerge from the crossing of quite differentiated worldlings. Contributors include: Ramon Amaro, Maria Dada, Helen Pritchard, Nicolas Malevé.
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'''3D computation has historically co-evolved with Modern technosciences, and aligned with the regimes of optimisation, normalisation and hegemonic world order. The legacies and projections of industrial development leave traces of that imaginary and tell the stories of a lively tension between "the probable" and "the possible". Defined as the techniques for measuring volumes, volumetrics all too easily (re)produce and accentuate the probable, and this process is intensified within the technocratic realm of contemporary hyper-computation. The ubiquity of efficient operations is deeply damaging in the way it gradually depletes the world of all possibility for engagement, interporousness and lively potential. ''Volumetric Regimes: Material cultures of quantified presence'' proposes an urgent intersectional inquiry into volumetrics to foreground procedural, theoretical and infrastructural practices that provide with a widening of the possible.'''
  
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''Volumetric Regimes'' emerges from [https://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org Possible Bodies], a collaborative project on the intersection between artistic and academic research. The project was initiated in 2016 to explore the very concrete and at the same time complex and fictional entities of so-called "bodies" in the context of 3D computation. ''Volumetric Regimes'' brings together diverse materials from an ongoing conversation between artists, software developers and theorists working with techniques and technologies for detecting, tracking, printing, modelling and rendering volumes.
  
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    Signs of clandestine disorder: The continuous after-math of 3D computationalism
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Contributors: Sophie Boiron, Maria Dada, Pierre Huyghebaert, Phil Langley, Nicolas Malevé, Romi Ron Morrison, Simone C. Niquille, Helen V. Pritchard, Jara Rocha, Sina Seifee, Femke Snelting, Kym Ward.
  
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&rarr; [[Introduction|More about '''Volumetric Regimes''']]
  
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    Parametric unknowns: Hypercomputation between the probable and the possible
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== Textos en español ==
  
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* "Regímenes volumétricos: Culturas materiales de la presencia cuantificada"  (forthcoming, Fem Tek publication, 2023)
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* "El inventario de Possible Bodies: la des-orientación y sus consecuencias" (translated and published by nmenos1, 2021)
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* "La imaginación invasiva y sus cortes agenciales". (Utopía. Revista de Crítica Cultural, Abril-Junio 2019)
  
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== Contents ==
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The conversations brought together in Volumetric Regimes were fed by and fed into various institutions and publications internationally, such as Goldsmiths Digital Arts Computing (Volumetric Ecologies, London), Hangar (Imagined Mishearings, Barcelona), BAK/Centre for the Humanities (Posthuman Glossary, Utrecht), La Gaîté Lyrique (Computer grrrls, Paris), UdK (How to Relate, Berlin), Schloss Solitude (Collective inventorying, Stuttgart), Universidad de la República de Uruguay (Naturoculturas Turbocapitalistas, Montevideo), Transmediale (Depths and Densities, Berlin) and La Casa Encendida (Bug Reporting, Madrid).
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* '''[[Acknowledgements]]'''
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* '''[[Foreword]]'''<br>Blanca Pujals
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Acknowledging the licenses of the included material, the book will be made available as Open Access.
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* '''[[Introduction|Volumetric Regimes: Material cultures of quantified presence]]'''
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[1] https://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org/inventory/
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=== [[parametric_unknowns|Parametric Unknowns: Hypercomputation between the probable and the possible]] ===
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=== [[Somatopologies|Somatopologies: On the ongoing rendering of corpo-realities]] ===
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=== [[clandestine_disorder|Signs of Clandestine Disorder: The continuous aftermath of 3D-computationalism]] ===
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=== [[depths_and_densities|Depths and Densities: Accidented and dissonant spacetimes]] ===
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=== Appendix ===
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* '''[[Series_Colophon|Colophon]]'''

Latest revision as of 12:02, 14 September 2022

This wiki was a workspace for the making of the book Volumetric Regimes, edited by Possible Bodies (Jara Rocha and Femke Snelting). It is published by Open Humanities Press (2022) in the DATA browser series, edited by Geoff Cox and Joasia Krysa. Design and lay-out implemented by Manetta Berends based on a template developed by Stuart Bailey.
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Bodies are concrete reality. Bodies are abstract. When bodies are modelled, scanned, generated in virtual realities, and presented back to us and others, are they real, ideal, neutral, skewed? When abstracted bodies speak for us and do things on our behalf, what politics do they enact? This radical multi-form collective investigation traces the cutting edge of how bodies and subjects are rendered technologically. It proposes multi-dimensional forms of intervention, and claims an experimental horizon of the possible, shattering the mantra of unavoidability. — Olga Goriunova

Volumetric Regimes makes an essential contribution to the ways in which we must rethink matter politically and ecologically. As the book unfolds, ontological questions of intensities, dimensions, and substance are denaturalised as mere properties of matter that can be measured, modified, and thus computed, which today are exemplified by 3D modelling and parametric design, but are shown to be part of processional life-worlds that are relational and mutually informed and informing. Not the partitioning of bodies, particles, datapoints, and spaces as techno-capital and techno-science would have it but a material enmeshment that brings the volumetric into presence otherwise. — Susan Schuppli

Volumetric Regimes: Material cultures of quantified presence

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3D computation has historically co-evolved with Modern technosciences, and aligned with the regimes of optimisation, normalisation and hegemonic world order. The legacies and projections of industrial development leave traces of that imaginary and tell the stories of a lively tension between "the probable" and "the possible". Defined as the techniques for measuring volumes, volumetrics all too easily (re)produce and accentuate the probable, and this process is intensified within the technocratic realm of contemporary hyper-computation. The ubiquity of efficient operations is deeply damaging in the way it gradually depletes the world of all possibility for engagement, interporousness and lively potential. Volumetric Regimes: Material cultures of quantified presence proposes an urgent intersectional inquiry into volumetrics to foreground procedural, theoretical and infrastructural practices that provide with a widening of the possible.

Volumetric Regimes emerges from Possible Bodies, a collaborative project on the intersection between artistic and academic research. The project was initiated in 2016 to explore the very concrete and at the same time complex and fictional entities of so-called "bodies" in the context of 3D computation. Volumetric Regimes brings together diverse materials from an ongoing conversation between artists, software developers and theorists working with techniques and technologies for detecting, tracking, printing, modelling and rendering volumes.

Contributors: Sophie Boiron, Maria Dada, Pierre Huyghebaert, Phil Langley, Nicolas Malevé, Romi Ron Morrison, Simone C. Niquille, Helen V. Pritchard, Jara Rocha, Sina Seifee, Femke Snelting, Kym Ward.

→ More about Volumetric Regimes

Textos en español

  • "Regímenes volumétricos: Culturas materiales de la presencia cuantificada" (forthcoming, Fem Tek publication, 2023)
  • "El inventario de Possible Bodies: la des-orientación y sus consecuencias" (translated and published by nmenos1, 2021)
  • "La imaginación invasiva y sus cortes agenciales". (Utopía. Revista de Crítica Cultural, Abril-Junio 2019)

Contents

x, y, z: Dimensional Axes of Power

Parametric Unknowns: Hypercomputation between the probable and the possible

Somatopologies: On the ongoing rendering of corpo-realities

Signs of Clandestine Disorder: The continuous aftermath of 3D-computationalism

Depths and Densities: Accidented and dissonant spacetimes

Appendix

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