__NOPUBLISH__ All pads here (http://etherbox.lan:9001/p/index) will be transferred to http://transmarcations.constantvzw.org after the worksession For who-is-who see also: http://pad.co nstantvzw.org/p/transmarcations.participants -------------- Potential tomorrow groups: * Trans passport performance /interact pass (scanning, capture tools?)x 3 axes (parameters?) of biomorphological, visual, and 1) administrative- 2) utopian - needed: web programming - image hacking - strip image into pdf, picture in picture compositing - OF or Opencv or tensorflow hackers: real time facerec, facial landmarking; augmentation - performance of passing - performance of hacking - graphic design of utopian documents and or outright counterfeitting of documents - application of `dazzle` camoflage to faces - spatial people to come up with movement through space - cut and paste people to make passports in real time for public demo - sound artists to do movement passage atmospherics * 3 days 'choreography - reenactment - technology - representation' discussion/exploration group [with the migrant slavery event as a startingpoint/reference] - http://etherbox.lan:9001/p/wed-infrontofavatar * GIS bending course/exercising including GIS basics, also shape morphing, map distortions, projections, scale distort bendinig counting orientation maps can be stressed, stretched and scaled what are the data representations for GIS systems? compare/contrast to Jean Luc's system of cartography --- why is Jean Luc's system somehow better for personal wayfinding? (according to Pierre) Questions: limits, what can and cannot be mapped? what media can be included? what alternate relationships can be drawn? how can change be represented? fiction insertion * Research group on 'standards' for representing change -> related to dynamic theories of space, data structures & algorithms (R-trees) * Trying to work with text / language / configuration / parameters. text - how the code was written & co / trans programming language? * Explorations -- worn sensors / visualization of streams of data as maps (if there is a group that clusters around it - Francois?) * The dance projection connection: human and non-human layers from a park [urgency of going out] Elvira, Goldian * Stretching moment (Thursday) * Francois Tanuki installation Wednesday 17:00 Francois explains 18:15 we need to be out Thursday 10:00 Francois explains (to students) / - GIS meeting/morning [conference space] - reenactment discussion meeting [first floor] - trans pass group meeting [reading room] 11:00 11:30 stretching -- maybe later? 12:30 13:00 14:00 - meeting: language group + Molenbeek formation - 17:00 Friday 10:00 11:30 stretching 14:00 17:00 ------------------------------------------------ Afternoon proposals http://etherbox.lan:9001/p/wednesday-06-12.proposals Choreography - Reinactment group http://etherbox.lan:9001/p/wed-infrontofavatar Transpassport brainstorm notes not as a x all the aspects what would it incorporate biometric type passport body and how it is presented morphbody. morpho-paysage set up a passing station where you cab try to pass that integrates criteria technology of passing. participatory hacking of self brainstorm notes downstairs group reconstruction of events pinhole camera as metaphor/technique when things are not clear, how are they reconstructed using technological tools (without repairing them, making everything fit) ex case in Lybia, migrants being traded as slaves, murdered -> why these stories come up when -> what are difficulties -> what senses are used to reconstruct, visual more predsent than other senses ex reconstruction of shipwreck, servind a certainideology that wasn't questioned can someone paste the link to the notes ? questioning representation/aesthetics. what would we propose as other ways what could other visualisations look like ? - not fixed - layered - vibrating maps - re-organising maps cfr point of view map of Philippe: how to create map that has multilayers maybe starting from real story sound as possible parameter to use the clarity of digital/3D -- layered moments in time/moment link with choreography is choreography of a situation, starts generating choreographies around it, rather than talking about reconstruction/evidence think 3 days about this!!! stories that need to be told evidence choreography throug eaesthetics etc ... working with dance brought a wearable tracking system trans-programming language gesture recognition and the body: failures + norm visualising personal maps transformation of shape, stretching look at methods to scale, distort, bend can we move from identity to orientation? use it as method scale - stretching accounting from static to dynamic understanding of time/space insert fictional parameters methods of study, not so much subjects a notion of maps that can be stretched and scaled bodies stretching words that can morph, explode how to connect these three - theories of space [Philippe does "Indian yes" (is that like "Oostindisch doof"?] any person is geographical agent, space exists together with the bodies ex North station in morning/evening is different space, because constituted by different bodies language creates space in the same way relationality maybe not a geographical map, but another type of map? other data? what is the limit of GIS can it map other things than geography? make shapes relate to each other -------------- Recap of yesterday - please read the notes here for yesterday's morning http://etherbox.lan:9001/p/Tuesday-05-12 summary of the NGI-IGN visit http://www.ngi.be/FR/FR0.shtm [Can you drop your pictures on the etherbox? please :-) :-)] PH: I have a specific perspective ... no idea what all of you got. We have all seen different things. Pierre H: Details of the practice is important coming at 8 in the morning, drawing pines for the whole day. Pine-tree tools Quite different (but also related) to GIS/digital practice. difficult to discuss easthetics with Jean luc ... Philippe: taken in by the images, beautiful to see the graphic qualities User manual of The WILD photogrammetry machine!! -- it was 5 meters wide. http://www.wild-heerbrugg.com/photogrammetry1.htm for stereoscopic view of the landscape beauty of the tools Pantograph (arm https://i.pinimg.com/736x/dd/cf/31/ddcf310120cf69abb2f2661281e741a9--cartography-fields.jpg http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/mapsdata/Photogrammetry/ImageFiles/WildAutographA8.jpg Jerome: discover the pattern making tools, and the pattern itself, the legenda normalisation versus unique map The pattern has an ID-code, but the individual print does not the base-grid, measurements ... of the map is fixed, but the choice for the way to draw, to represent objects is more free sad we could not speak to the people doing digital cartography GIS team: using Google maps to check details disconnection / lost connection between digital and the 'attic' GIS has been built on the lasagna of these practices shall we do a 'bending GIS' session ? YES. Fractal mapping (ref. session on transp pass) mixing scales, can be done on screen, not on paper vibrating, stretching map. OMG PLEASE DO THIS AND HAVE PHILIPPE TALK ABOUT HIS PROJECTIONS "maps for people that are walking" -- relation between maps and who is using it. movement + change + scale he tried to go with bike, did not work institutional aspect is interesting: cannot choose their (digital?) tools, dependent on 'tenders' (marché public = Public contracts), human resources open source is difficult because of this interesting to think about their viewpoint limitations and possibilities, transparancy ... interlayering of political constraints, economies, ... a register of at which moment who was using what tool? Alex: "I thought it was really stimulating!" Phall-O-meter: a satirical measurement system / device inspired by Kessler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phall-O-Meter Clinometer (mistranslation --> clit-O-meter perhaps emphasizes how easily the practices of cartography and body/gender classification overlap) http://www.instructables.com/id/Using-a-clinometer-to-measure-height/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclinometer Clitometer: ?? Body and territory treated similiarly Interchangable language military and civic looks for different things on the terrain ref to homonationalism -- counting people in terms of gender or not? markers + genders Identifying different functions of the map - using several map-systems Intersectionality of maps. Archiving of maps organise colors around the black and white drawings 'we start from a situation' situation means: built environment how the projection gets projected on to the flat surface but is grounded / 'pinned down' by the situation subsurface mapping and multiple disciplines being busy with how not only map surface, but also below. This was/is the book in the library: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL5794098M/Subsurface_mapping Summary : Lexicon of Exile make a mindmap on paper ! safe spaces: church, park safe objects: smartphone body was present in the testimonies food changes were discussed as a criteria for attachment to a new environment, food doesn't taste like home also has effects: you don't realise what the effect is of the food on your body > your body is also changing because of other factors : external but also internal (psy, adaptation) body "geography" connected to "real" geography in Calais: code language between different languages police has a code rules of the game put limits with the bodi=y contests the system (did i understand that well pacom?) how does belonging link to a sense of identity? camping as leasure vs camping out of lack of house .. connotation of words are changing totally words as boundaries ... Being turn apart > mentally separted between here and there > a word can be turn apart when its meanings are stretching, when its connotations are changing (from camping to camping for exemple) summary Trans passport (?) cis chemistry difference sex and gender surveillance, safety .... 'blakc queer trans afraid' .... fear as a keyword, feeling unsafe orientation vs. identity moving towards the unkown, situating, migration platform FB, proposal to make map to help people with transport is map of quartier: how many cars are available in your neighbourhood what's the scale of a quartier? if it is small and practice, it is too precise and risky and that question of intimacy and safety is a practical issue the contested power relations of a map universal passport how to keep the history without reinforcing the violence layers of history connect systems that hold parameters together disconnecting normed clusters of parameters how not to gender and talk about being a mother? (side comment: this is what Ann Leckie does in her recent novel Provenance: i think the word is nother or nuncle) maps as dominant, colonial, empire tool can they ever serve the non dominant ? where are the safe spaces ? out of the map ? where are the public spaces ? how to add layers of complexity of his(her)story ? of memories ? of transhumance ? of transition ? choosing wich layer you want or it is safe to show ? gender as orientation and disorentiation exil as orientation and disorentiation if you see the same park through the gender or colonial past it has different views it is also for cruising it is also a masonic places it was built with the money that came in through congo each provides a different way of viewing parks you have a statue of leopold in park forest and duden it was made with his money and it continues to be refreshed/color there is something special about the bust because the sculpture is facing directly the palais de justice but leopold's face is tilted, as if he is refusing to look at the palais/justice? Tracing the re-writing of Congo monuments in Brussels http://westenberg.constantvzw.org/?cat=11 https://dearkitty1.wordpress.com/2016/09/12/belgian-king-leopold-iis-crimes-in-congo-statue-in-ostend/ body- identity - public space a trans-passport, do we want it? what would it be like what would it do? you were talking about the body being the passport 'my body is my passport' especially with the matter around passing when the secondary characterists are in contradition with the primary gender characteristics your secondary characteristics are seen and read and your primary characteristics are projected (Random thought: Could this projection be connected to bending GIS mentioned above, vibrating, stretching projections... as a thought experiment....) this was the opening on the question of passing the risks involved in being discovered and the question as tress-passing in addition to the questions about whether we want a trans-passport somehow recognizing the fluidity of the body could also mark us out to achieve a public identity that is projected on us cultural genitals "mapping genitals onto the body" map and the territory do not conform play with that, rather than being mapped out as an x person the risks that one takes and that go along with that (doc outrans http://outrans.org/ressources/brochures-mtft/) question of identity as a practice in terms of the dominant perception, how i might be seen as a fraudulent identity Parameter stretching Benjamin http://etherbox.lan/images/a60-cartography-hacking/ http://etherbox.lan/images/a60-dsc-109/ Hanne Darboven: One century in one year Re-serializing european history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanne_Darboven For Benjamin: this is not parametrized what changes? when to stop? what is the scale? Alpha 60 working group archiving alternative history and hacking history => reserializing pirate television history Examples of broadcast maps tv was transmitted like radio, but also through telephones! broadcast map examples - concentration/ diffusion : map of the way radio is distributed in a special area diffusion maps that/to show scale star trek discovery diffusion : networks, than change of parameters including download Phillippe http://etherbox.lan/images/parametrage-cartographique.pdf starts with jasper johns on buckminster fuller parameter = constant d'un calcul (both variable and constant) visual variables color - value - shape - orientation - placement - ... science: number defines largness of ball - can take on different forms -> cartographer's sensitivity/subjectivity defines the one parameter that allows for different readings (proportion of ball respective to nr of refugees) "political or emotional intent" "applying constants on your universe" rotation as a parameter of projection projection: how to go from patatoide to flatness now, looking at other parameters of projection: "you are on the moon, looking at the map" if you project sphere on 2D: you cannot keep angles, surface and have no cuts (agential cuts? what agency?) "there is no way to not cut" there is distortion also classic solutions: stretch one edge (f.ex. South of North Pole) parametrization in cartography jaspar jones drawing of a map everything else is going to be ugly what is parameter? it is a symbol that can take in an question, that can represent different values a constant element of a calculation a variable that is constant i look at what we are doing with cartography it is positioned in the space of the screen and paper it is color, value, grain, shape and orientation and there are a limited number of them these are the tools that we have to work with for each element we want to present, we choose the dimension of the element we want to present the color, the size, the shape for this map of refugees the position is given by the country that is hosting refugees the shape is given by the cartographiers that say that it is going to be this ball the size of the ball is proportionate to the number of refugees what is our parametrization it is the function that we use to transform a number of refugees to a size here it is represented in 3d usually if you do just a circle, the radius will be a square root of the number that you want to represent let's say that is science and what you have to use to convey your data here is a different map with the same rules ....repeat the science is the same the formula are the same the thing that is not given by science but the cartographers subjectivity and sensitivity to what has to be represented. i don't have to tell you that the message is different and the way the message is received is different that is the basic question about parametrization it is to change the basis of the computation and to make a visual output that works with the political and emotional intent subjectivity will give you parameters you ge then this image that is produced by your system and paramteres what i did in those last years is to dive into projections they have many parameters one is rotation you have a sphere and you can rotate it on three axis that is the basic parametrization of a map that is the aspect of a projection and we now remove this from the equation and not look at aspect but to project how do i go from lattitude longitude to pixels this is highly mathematical here you have an example of changing an aspect the idea is that i can reproject that image and change the formula this is the ortographic projection of how you calculate the projections from infinite space there are of course always clouds, so this is a construction when you are doing a projection of a sphere you cannot keep the angles and at the same time keep the surface and have no cuts you need one cut the sphere is not equivalent to any surface even if you take an infinite plane there is no way to not cut even if you cut, you have a problem of distortion you want to keep equivalent surfaces then the shapes will be distorted there are many classic solutions to this if i have antartica here if you put the south pole at the exterior it stretches very thin if you put it here it is the north pole that is stretched there is no way tha tyou can have that works for every question that you ask everyone has a solution for project because everyone has a different question this projection that is called pneumanic it transforms every straight line on the sphere is a straight line on the plane if they converge on a sphere, on a plane they diverge willian bungee had a projection that showed you where you are and the rest of the world "is this the situation" you can see in a city where the goods come from and these are the nuclear power plants François first time problems with parameters - generating objects, geneology algorithm "entities populating world space" probabilities, dying, propagation ... all parameters. 'classes' describe the parameters. Concepts. relations between classes. "letting the program run as it wants" parameters and configuration = set of parameters the world = the configuration = the set of parameters (!!) (it says 'people' in the configuration file) maxChildrenByWoman :-P skeleton setup as a parameter "parameters is a way to make the system not run wildly" [could be interesting to work together on re-wording this world] generative object entities growing older it looks like a genetic algorithm it is not really using this kind of thing it grows for half an hour and it will start buildig other spots and as entities will grow and reproduce and eating the white space and when all the white space is gone, the whole system collapses and they start over again do they die? yes, they die, there are maximum number of children and gender of entities the lines you see are the relation between the children and parents to make this run correctly and presenting it what i have behind is a set of code showing code a project with files describing different entities in concepts the concepts are working together you have the main application and for each entity you have g people and they have relation between them like tribes this is working fine on the cpu but if i let the program as it wants i end up with something completely stuck no, how to say, the idea is to produce something that looks like a drawing and not letting the space get filled up i have to adapt the process with parameters and threshold and this is the ... the configuration configuration is a set of parameters each line is a paramteter and the whole is a configuration of the program some of the parameters are related to display and definition and other things are related to the maximum number of things that you can have when the program starts or during the process it cannot be more than 10000 people this is the display configuration also these are the things the top layer of the configuration things i need to modify fastly these are mainly related to display when i arrive somewhere i have a beamer and i need to adjust there is another part of the configuration done directly in the code these are things that are not easily changed, i have to recompile womenfertilityperiod = 25 it does not include interactivity it defines once and for all the parameters during the running of the application for all the things that you have below it is a bit more complex each point, all the files that you see here are configurations of one of the ... point a lot of parameters for adapting his behavior on the display side you also have other configuration with parameters the name of the bone to receive the name of the avatar parametrization is the way to constrain or restrict what a program can do to make it do what is interesting to look at not let it run widely making it part of the thing here, without this the program will not do anything explaining to the program what he has to do , at the beginining how to understand the variables he will receive and to load ... you see a lot of comments here avatar etc. for testing the first day this is the ball you now have in the installation it is there to change the behavior of the program can you load the configuration files on to the etherbox? it will be good to think about the wording of these files what is interesting in the many configuration files is that there are actual parameters, but there is also something in the naming of the parameters that is the predescription of the world and already there you can do a lot of interventions it forces certain ranges of possibility? you could create another tribe with different behavior?! but tribe already has a lot of preconfiguration in fact, in the wordings to make "whatever" is the name, the result can be the same the wording helps me explain to the program what to do and take a decision on the age, sex, position in the world a way to analyze and cut the program in small pieces and have thresholds for each of these programs for this program do you imagine a single, and all our male and female and they have to reproduce? some can be single all his life. it is based on statistics... actual statistics it is constant tests dong dong dong hyperparameters (in Machine Learning) neural networks -- training parameters (so flexible inflexible variable constants?) Florence As a photographer, does not work directly with digital. Work in Algeria, memory of her family personal parameters and tools no boundaries in approach her own subjectivity - how to relate to people how to create layers. papers, mirrors, transparencies ... a layering toolbox using situations / elements from the place looking for physicial metaphors, things .. but not in their concrete meaning create a place where the audience can create its own narrative material culture / cultural material finding ways to bring what is out of the frame into it (through shadows for example) pinhole photo's (small box contaiing light sensitive paper, you make a small hole in the box for exposure) long exposures, tension between space and time same moments, different expressions because of different techniques laboruous work of pinhole relates to the IGN painstaking work hours of inscription inscribing things that/while they are changing 4th dimension of time. [ref. trans pass discussion] (also thinking of the situation as a point of reference. and the last map that Philippe showed?) to think and present something about memory, absence and presence here are my parameters the handle bar of the stair case and it has a big cut it is symbolic of exile my way of entering these stories of history and identity is to look for things in a place and territory where it can be built more metaphorically than concrete there are documents that i try to put in a contemporary context to create layers between past and present also using transparency, working with curtains and glass and also details of cultural materials/material cultures? le culture materielle working with what is out of frame to be in this kind of tension ,dynamic, dialogye, past present future, memory absence and presence and photography is a good tool for that photos of an experience last month i worked with pinhole photography a little blackbox with a film in a box and a little pinhole you then go in a dark room and develop the film it is a great way to talk about time since you need 10-15 minutes of exposure it becomes a dialogue between spaec and time if you take a picture of people it gives a completely different texture and narrative which is the same movement this is like compilotheque it is also movement of 10 minutes in a square what kind of traces it leaves for me it is very interesting to be invited to work with you maybe we can find ways in the afternoon to map something about these experiences to have parameters meet? i cannot help but relate this to the cartographic tools we used yesterday you are going to this old tech to make things more laborious an di was impressed by how laborious the cartographic process is in your case, it becomes part of the aesthatic but in the map, it is frozen even if the map was done through months of labor also expectation of images when something is blurry it is seen as something that has failed and the way you work with it, it shows very different thing in the trans-pass session we were taling about time and blurry identity a lot of this keeps on coming back i find this a beautiful way of looking at it, doing the same technique with different tools Peggy parameters to frame the work space what does work mean, post-burn-out what parameters to go to work. Some chosen, some not Pré burn out: - relative high income - amount of years in school - position (better than my parents, success) - stability of the work (jobs that last, long term contracts) some variables: - things that can happen - reclaiming things in the workspace Post burn out: - reverse budget: how much do I (really) need ? - why is this interesting for me ? - relation with people I work with, not people i don't know - at least proximity: politics and ... (no word) - no cv's anymore - don't want to waste my time anymore - how tired do i get/does it make me - personal life / work life balance - can i have a nap during the day? - am i (going to be) bored? can i sustain the boredness that will come anyway - personal is political: emotions matter, so power too (feminism taught me) - accept me the way i am. not wearing suits! class, gender, orientation ... i understood the exercise to explain the parameters i choose to frame my workspace it is not about the tools i use but what kind of context i like working in i had a massive burnout and i could not read for a year there is also a question of income i don't have capital to pay the food and so on i understood after the burnout that there are parameters that are not exactly mine that allows me to choose i will work in that place or another but there was some parameters, and this is how i understood the exercise it is a question about income to have a high income that is related to the amount of years that i have been in school this is not a parameter that i have chosen it was given before something linked with social position that i had inherited the idea that i was supposed to have better work than myparents and a way to succeed whatever that means and there was another parameter which was about the stability of the work i have mainly been in work where i last 7 years or so except now, i had long term contracts so those were the parameters before the burnout and of course there are some variables things that can happen in a work place the fact that i had to reclaim stuff inside the work place so i changed the parameters i did a reverse budget on the question of income how much do i need instead of how much i am supposed to get because of my education and will to succeed the second parameter i tried to have was what is the interest i have in it it may sound weird especially if you have higher studies, you choose something, and sometimes i don't another parameter with the people i work with i try not to work with people i don't know and not more than one relation from me there is the question of proximity political proximity i don't have exactly the word to describe the parameter why did you pick that? because, i never find a work in my whole life that was not actually like this another decision is not to make a cv anymore i never find a work, even the long term work when i was working in institution i never found a job with a cv you are doing this, please get in touch with this person, they are looking for something like you cvs are a waste of time, and i don't want to waste my time anymore will that place of work make me tired? after my burnout, it changes the way i see the world i have been working for 60 hours a week before i cannot do this anymore this is anotehr criteria work was everything for most of my life i had no life for a period of my life work was my life now i make a separation, life and work another criteria is can i have a nap during the day because i have been reading about how the brain works and the question of attention there is always a time in the day that i need to sleep i cannot have this much attention it is not really productive in a .. am i bored i am an emotional person and the feminist view of personal is political is how i shaped my life so i have to take this into account i am emotional person and i have been fighting it all my life and i cannot do that anymore power is a question when i go into a workplace i cannot unsee the power relationships that used to make me suffer a lot i was in the past a unionist i was in the management i had to be a unionist there was too much at stake some people can be in a shitty place, they do their work and go home and i know that i cannot do this i am emotional and this is another criteria the place of work has to accept me the way that i am i don't want to try to be someone else anymore i don't want to wear suits i don't want to hide part of my life this is something i realized when i was working in the city of brussels even if the question of class and gender were not clear i could be myself, a lesbian, married with a kid i think this is criteria that i need and that is it Simone what would define a digital body on screen learn animation and figure out what it means looking at bodies that are not bodies (hollow figures) "the contents" working with three fictional characters: * Hillary Clinton lookalike * Kritios * Caesar segmentation and cutting into its essential parts fuse -- bought by Adobe, now fit into workflow animation made easier to dress up avatars she looked at the Character Creator function how much can you mix charcaters created by the software (zombie, brute, etc) algorithms for segmentation tracing histories of 3D scanning Startrek! crossover of techniques between Holywood and anthropometric precision star trek again :) as a parameter. anthropometric technologies new things for actors to do (they can blow their own head up!) what is a noisy image? if you move a scan is useles, since it does not correspond to what you see physically whole body scan scane the whole body in one go dancing on NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology the guy who uploaded the images of the dancing figures he worked at NIST had a background in Bell Labs and worked on the Caesar project Caesar database of human body elements 3d anthropometric database car companies trying to design interiors in the most ergonomic way US army were doing studies every 30-40 years to design uniforms for their personal https://i1.rgstatic.net/publication/237636644_ANTHROPOMETRY_RESOURCE_CAESAR_FINAL_REPORT_VOLUME_I_SUMMARY/links/0deec5291db4e5a199000000/largepreview.png http://store.sae.org/caesar/ [averaging between italians and dutch - national parameters of small and big bodies] Anthropemtry crash course quick history of they show the contested space one, identifying criminals (Alphonse Berillon) can you easure people and make prediciotns of their behaviors parametrize the human body henry dreyfuss - working on ergonomics H.Dreyfuss - the measure of man https://i.pinimg.com/474x/7e/65/db/7e65dbce4b93537e2add1335c759f2b3--book-design-design-art.jpg https://i.pinimg.com/originals/91/4d/b9/914db9b875cdc2da61fd8a254f763b55.jpg what is intresting to me is what kind of information they were recording caesar recorded 4500 people largest collection that database keeps on being recycled for academic research here is the research from stanford in 2010 that became the character creator that we saw in the beginning looking at segmentation - CAESAR turning up in Fuse this character is the guy that is in the DB what bodies are being used to define these bodies and what does it mean to find them in Adobe quick run on something that is much more dense Choreographer - Reenactment group http://etherbox.lan:9001/p/wed-infrontofavatar