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LiDAR on the rocks was a hands-on collective investigation into the micro, meso and macro political consequences of earth scanning practices. Together with a group of participants we looked into what undergrounds are rendered when using techniques such as Terrestrial Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR), magnetic resonance, UltraSound, and Computer Tomography (CT).<ref>This workshop took place at the ''Citizen Sci-Fi fair'' organized by Furtherfield in Finsbury Park, London, August 10th, 2019.</ref> | LiDAR on the rocks was a hands-on collective investigation into the micro, meso and macro political consequences of earth scanning practices. Together with a group of participants we looked into what undergrounds are rendered when using techniques such as Terrestrial Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR), magnetic resonance, UltraSound, and Computer Tomography (CT).<ref>This workshop took place at the ''Citizen Sci-Fi fair'' organized by Furtherfield in Finsbury Park, London, August 10th, 2019.</ref> | ||
| − | Surrounded by fake rocks in Finsbury Park, we used green string and yellow | + | Surrounded by fake rocks in Finsbury Park, we used green string and yellow tape to manually construct point clouds and experiment with Point of View (POV). We tried to render intersecting positions and shifted from individual to collective pareidolia (seeing worlds inside other worlds), while reading selected text fragments by N.K. Jemesin<ref name="ftn1">N. K. Jemesin, ''The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth #1)'' (Orbit, 2014)</ref>, Kathryn Yusoff<ref name="ftn2">Kathryn Yusoff, ''A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None'' (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2018)</ref>, Elizabeth Povinelli<ref name="ftn3">Elizabeth A. Povinelli, “Can rocks die?” in <span style="background-color:transparent;">''Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism ''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;">(Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2016) 8-9.</span></ref>, Karen Barad<ref name="ftn5">Karen Barad, “TransMaterialities: Trans*/Matter/Realities and Queer Political Imaginings,”. ''GLQ'' 1 June 2015; 21 (2-3): 387–422.</ref> and Denise Fereira Da Silva<ref name="ftn4">Denise Ferreira da Silva, “In the Raw,” e-flux Journal #93 (September 2018), [https://www.e-flux.com/journal/93/215795/in-the-raw/ https://www.e-flux.com/journal/93/215795/in-the-raw/]</ref>. The session ended near a 1m<sup>3</sup> area of grass that we had marked for imagined digging and a crooked DIWO metal detector that provoked participants to consider plural rendering of the underground. |
The session introduced the Initial Areas of Study (IAS) of The Extended Trans*feminist Rendering Programme (T*fRP):<ref name="ftn0">The Underground Division, “The Extended Trans*feminist Rendering Programme” (2019) [https://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org/rendering/transfeminist_rendering_prospectus.pdf https://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org/rendering/transfeminist_rendering_prospectus.pdf]</ref> | The session introduced the Initial Areas of Study (IAS) of The Extended Trans*feminist Rendering Programme (T*fRP):<ref name="ftn0">The Underground Division, “The Extended Trans*feminist Rendering Programme” (2019) [https://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org/rendering/transfeminist_rendering_prospectus.pdf https://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org/rendering/transfeminist_rendering_prospectus.pdf]</ref> | ||
Revision as of 09:39, 10 April 2021
LiDAR on the rocks
The Underground Division (Helen V. Pritchard, Jara Rocha, and Femke Snelting)
LiDAR on the rocks was a hands-on collective investigation into the micro, meso and macro political consequences of earth scanning practices. Together with a group of participants we looked into what undergrounds are rendered when using techniques such as Terrestrial Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR), magnetic resonance, UltraSound, and Computer Tomography (CT).[1]
Surrounded by fake rocks in Finsbury Park, we used green string and yellow tape to manually construct point clouds and experiment with Point of View (POV). We tried to render intersecting positions and shifted from individual to collective pareidolia (seeing worlds inside other worlds), while reading selected text fragments by N.K. Jemesin[2], Kathryn Yusoff[3], Elizabeth Povinelli[4], Karen Barad[5] and Denise Fereira Da Silva[6]. The session ended near a 1m3 area of grass that we had marked for imagined digging and a crooked DIWO metal detector that provoked participants to consider plural rendering of the underground.
The session introduced the Initial Areas of Study (IAS) of The Extended Trans*feminist Rendering Programme (T*fRP):[7]
- connected subsurfaces
- stories of the undergrounds (sub-terranean science-fiction)
- subsurface politics and its constellations
The T*fRP exists to take care of the production, reproduction and interpretation of DIWO scanning devices and scanning practices within the field of a-clinical, underground and cosmic imaging. The programme invites fiction writers, earth techno-scientists and trans*feminist device problematizers to render imaginations of the (under)grounds and of the earth.
Reader: LiDAR_reader.pdf
Notes
- ↑ This workshop took place at the Citizen Sci-Fi fair organized by Furtherfield in Finsbury Park, London, August 10th, 2019.
- ↑ N. K. Jemesin, The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth #1) (Orbit, 2014)
- ↑ Kathryn Yusoff, A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2018)
- ↑ Elizabeth A. Povinelli, “Can rocks die?” in Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2016) 8-9.
- ↑ Karen Barad, “TransMaterialities: Trans*/Matter/Realities and Queer Political Imaginings,”. GLQ 1 June 2015; 21 (2-3): 387–422.
- ↑ Denise Ferreira da Silva, “In the Raw,” e-flux Journal #93 (September 2018), https://www.e-flux.com/journal/93/215795/in-the-raw/
- ↑ The Underground Division, “The Extended Trans*feminist Rendering Programme” (2019) https://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org/rendering/transfeminist_rendering_prospectus.pdf
| This workshop took place at the Citizen Sci-Fi fair organized by Furtherfield in Finsbury Park (London) on August 10th, 2019. |
