[...]ce leads from one idea to another (="trms">modernity).  

(i don't do filmic voyage)

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By Consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words, mental discourse.
“When a man thinketh on anything whatsoever, his next thought after is not altogether so casual as it seems to be. Not every thought to every thought succeeds in="trms">differently.” (— Thomas ="ppl">Hobbes, Leviathan, The First Part='lgc'>: Of Man, Chapter III='lgc'>: Of the Consequence or Train of ="trms">Imagination)

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the current forms of biotic forests is due to the sp="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading of seed-dispersing plants millions years ago (what about abiotic='qstn'>? Kinect)

one of issues related with rate/speed is ="trms">synchronicity

the effects of bio="trms">technically / bioculturaly ="trms">situated people

Amazon's ="trms">nature in op="trms">position to slave gar="trms">dens (slave plantation ="trms">systems with factory machine) (along with imperial botanical gar="trms">dens)
for ="trms">travel and propagation of...
moving ="trms">material ="trms">semiotic
part-time organisms


when visuality is looked at in a haptic modality (the tentacular face for example), vision can be figured as touch, not distance. negatively curving in loops and frills, not surveying(/surviving) from above.

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when a depiction (="trms">poetic, visual, etc.) is d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angerously ambiguous='qstn'>?

are we really immersed in ="trms">data realities='qstn'>? and that really means we are losing the sight on experiences fetched by our bodies='qstn'>?

co-existing and contradictory incomplete models that ground us in our critically limited existence. what does beyond the (="trms">techno-cartographic-episto-cogno-="trms">histo-) map's horizon means for this ="trms">situated “us”='qstn'>?

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(="ppl">Amanda ="ppl">Boezkes)

the ="trms">ontological purification ="trms">apparatus

we are now on an idea of the earth in so to calibrate our sensorial ="trms">systems to adjust to human-born unpre="trms">dictabilities that override and neutralize long-standing ="trms">histories of local knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge.

how an ="trms">ecological perspective can be incorporated into vision ='lgc'>-- become a visuality='qstn'>? ='lgc'>-- mobilization of visuality

how an artwork may account for the ways ="trms">ecological change registers in vision='qstn'>?

geo-="trms">aesthetics

information is not energy-="trms">specific (="ppl">="ppl">Gibson)

theory of affordance ='lgc'>: information pick-up process ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> threshold between the sense-="trms">system of organism and the invariance of the environment
an experience of an observer that is not a property of the observer, it is invariant and ="trms">relational.
that is, it acknowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges that objective information about an environmental ="trms">system can be obtained both in spite and because of perceptual change. in this respect an indigenous knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge is not simply an order of cultural perspective, they are rather a form of objective testimony, by the people who are attuned to the environment's invariant structure. they are not simply a traditional or local “point of view.”

="large lg10" stl="font-size:117%"> in this sense what kind of info is the image of Kinect about the environment='qstn'>? it is not objective info nor culture, what is it='qstn'>? personal testimony='qstn'>? descriptions of a ="trms">technological ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading='qstn'>?!

affordance, as a concept, allows complexity and refusal to reduce environments, objects, and actions to the basic function they may have to the perceiver in her/his/its ="trms">world ='lgc'>-- it permits a level (horizon) of consciousness of the ="trms">world beyond function.

how a beetle may rest on the retina of ="trms">bird's eye like pieces of puzzle fitting together

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to what extent can an ="trms">ecological perception become virtualized, re="trms">presented, and returned to vision as a condition, or style of being='qstn'>? that is how to take con="trms">scientious of the ="trms">ecological beings that we are in any project='qstn'>? ='lgc'>-- that is attuning vision to an ="trms">ecological reality

E. h. Gombrich understood the perception of art as a process of cultivating the visual ="trms">skills of recognition in the eye itself
="trms">historical ways of seeing
any ="trms">skill we have in spite of environmental variances, is operating from visual schema that are geared to t="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigger pattern recognition, (art='qstn'>?)

visuality vs vision
the caricaturist does not teach us how to see, but rather instantiates a new ="trms">code of recognition. a visuality is nested into vision; vision is reciprocally primed to recognize a visuality ='strcls'>***

visuality involves more than pattern recognition

="large lg1" stl="font-size:149%"> perception is not the tool by which we experience art, but its very content and substance. john Onians con="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cludes that “each painting forms its own ‘eye’.”

what kind of eye the art (of my Kinect) cultivates='qstn'>? (a ="trms">techno-="trms">aesthetic eye='qstn'>?) (the diagrammatic eye='qstn'>?) (referring to the diagram project “sadistic statistics”)

the ways we see ...ly (="trms">historically, ="trms">ecologically, evolutionary, ="trms">technologically,) more part and parcel of the visuality of the ="trms">anthropo="trms">cene

the ="trms">neuro-="trms">aesthetic eye

to “="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read” environment in terms of info pick-up and accommodation
to simply perceive as we do
but to parlay (double up) our perceptual ="trms">system into a modality of processing, ="trms">response, and ="trms">responsiveness
(the ="trms">aesthetics of) the visual brain is the contact (not contract) between the individual and the eco="trms">system

modulation of ethos in landscape='qstn'>?

Kinect is not bringing a knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge that is ="trms">neurobiologically imperceptible to the naked eye nor is it ="trms">technologically making a ="trms">worldview accessible.

“it is low tech”, its images are born of partial recognition, attunement, and attention

low-tech works may be critical for developing a visuality that is not yet ="trms">integral to or explicit within new media, visualising the ="trms">specifically ="trms">neurological dimension of ="trms">ecologicity and mobilizing vision as a perceiving organ to cultivate this self-awareness.

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(="ppl">McKenzie ="ppl">Wark)

climate ="trms">science, a key ="trms">science of our time, rests on an ="trms">apparatus of very powerful computers and ="trms">communication vectors, which overcome the “friction”, as ="ppl">Paul ="ppl">Edwards calls it, between ="trms">data and ="trms">communication. it brings together global ="trms">data ="trms">according to global standards, mathematical models of physics of climate drawn from fluid dynamics, and massive computational power. the model and ="trms">data coproduce each other in a way, as the ="trms">data sets are all partial, and many ="trms">data points have to be ="trms">interpolated to make the models work. and then all of that has to be mediated back to human awareness via tables, graphs, computer simulations, and so forth.

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(="ppl">Irmgard ="ppl">Emmelhainz)

(="trms">anthropo="trms">cene) change in the conditions of visuality
transformation of the ="trms">world into images
="trms">phenomenological ='lgc'>+ ="trms">epistemological consequences

images participate now in the forming of ="trms">worlds, they have also become forms of thought

the optical mind

the radical change in the conditions of visuality has brought about a new subject ="trms">position or point of view, announce by the ="trms">trajectories of='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. antihumanism (between impressionism and cubism)
="lstsrd">2. posthumanism (between cubism and experimental film)
="lstsrd">3. non-grounded form of vision (from experimental film to digital media)

this regime of visuality implies='lgc'>: automatization, tautological vision, and signs leading to other signs
resulted to ='lgc'>=> the proliferation of images also implying the cancellation of vision

“vision cancelled”

linearity of the Renaissance perspective plan created the illusion of a view to the outside ="trms">world, analogous to a window.

cubism='lgc'>: showing a perpetual ="trms">present in a parallel temporality.
perspectival multiplicity became embedded in the picture plane.
invented a discontinuous space, making identity and ="trms">difference relative (="trms">questioning the classical ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics), by subverting the ="trms">relations between subject and object.

does my Kinect pictural model employs the architectural space='qstn'>? is camera architectural='qstn'>?

in experimental film, duration became a key component of ="trms">aesthetic experience, analogous to human consciousness, a prosthetic vision

identity and ="trms">difference, rejection of a ="trms">priori space

how to release the subject from human coordinates='qstn'>? what are references to human coordinates='qstn'>? screen's rectangular frame='qstn'>?

the machine (optical perception) delivers a posthuman, prosthetic enhancement of vision, which announces, first the incipient (initial) normalization of perception as augmented reality and ="trms">data visualization

displacement of the subjective center of operations

epitomize

subvert

fragmentation brought by mechanization, has an alienating character

its impossibility to give back an image or serve a reflective mirror

it is in="trms">different to “me”

the exhaustive visualization and documentation of ="trms">wildlife is effectively concealing its ongoing extinction (one of the reasons i am not using the zeiss-lens-camera recordings)
(for Susan Sontag) taking photographs ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] is a way of certifying experience, also a way of refusing it - by limiting experience to a search for the photographic, by converting experience to a souvenir. ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] the very activity of taking pictures ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] assuages (erleichtern) general feelings of disorientation that are likely to be exacerbated (worsened) by ="trms">travel.

cognitive activity

giving form to experience, also transforming things into signs, welding image and discourse

the contemporary experience is also made of sharing/tweeting/liking images

the contemporary political economy='lgc'>: ="trms">communicative capitalism derives surplus value from the volume and velocity of sings and ="trms">data circulating in the infosphere.

proliferation of cognitive signs is another feature of ="trms">communicative capitalism, submitting the mind to an ever-increasing pace of perceptual stimuli

(for Berardi) seeing means accelerating perception in the fields of everyday experience, accelerated tautological vision derived from constant passive observation. this is another of ="trms">communicative capitalism's form of governance, as this kind of vision generates ="trms">techno-="trms">linguistic automatisms by carrying information without meaning

is Kinect image-compilation a creature of infosphere='qstn'>? (boring ="trms">question='qstn'>?)

normalization of groundless seeing (exemplified in google earth)

“picture does not make an image” (Serge Daney, before and after image)
image against vision

life persists irrationality, not given form by ="trms">imagination, ceasing to cohere into a higher truth. (Fox, cold ="trms">world)

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(="ppl">Ada ="ppl">Smailbegovic)

="trms">nature of things (2013, ="frds">Sina ='lgc'>+ ="frds scrmbld">Elisa)

related to temporalities and velocities (plant politics of movement)

the video registers ="trms">different rhythms and textures of change in the event of weather
="trms">methodological impulse to draw on descriptive practices of ="trms">natural ="trms">history
attuning to p="trms">articulate ="trms">differences that ="trms">compose change

the temporal dimension of human “umwelt” is tuned into a limited set of rhythms and durations. therefore many of the temporalities that are relevant for developing a politics of time (such as longe duration of geological time) may not be directly available to human sensorium.
not just something that it is difficult to sense, but temporality as a compound entity of other variables. (temperature, etc.)

binding times together

an alternative perspective on (="trms">anthropo="trms">cene) temporality involves developing a ="trms">poetics of description as a mode of ="trms">affective and ="trms">aesthetic amplification

='lgc'>=> developing an experimental ="trms">poetics of ="trms">technology as a mode of ="trms">aesthetic amplification towards a less perspectival visuality ='lgc'>-- the ="trms">writing tends to operate in a more tentacular mode of perception ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sweating on every negative space
='lgc'>+='lgc'>+='lgc'>+ sweating again was crucial in our sensorial (and therefore cognitive) ="trms">relation when we were in Amazon. Kinect and sweating both propose modes of perception other than perspectival shadow casting ="trms">system of vision.

(organic or inorganic/="trms">technological='qstn'>?) processes that constitute the planet/plant

='lgc'>=> intimacy with the organic/inorganic/="trms">technological processes that constitute the planet

(='mywrk'>my work is to create or find out) ="trms">poetics and the ="trms">methodologies that register the bite and indexes its significance
(='lgc'>+ bite of the critter on my skins)

(="ppl">Chakrabarty in The climate of ="trms">history='lgc'>:) “man's environment did change but changed so slowly as to make the ="trms">history of man's ="trms">relation to his environment almost timeless and thus not a subject of ="trms">historiography at all”

the collapse of this age-old humanist distinction between ="trms">natural ="trms">history and human ="trms">history

plant ="trms">writing
="trms">formulate ="trms">transitional ="trms">categories that would be ="trms">responsive to ="trms">differentiated modes of activity attuned to the difficulties of depicting ="trms">natural ="trms">phenomena that are continuously in flux.

="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reader of the meteorological registers

envision the temporal flux

the shifting ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges (of the Kinect building generics)

(Kinect image) as architectural form ="trms">composed of ="trms">different (="trms">transitional) ="trms">materially instantiated temporalities

trans="trms">position of qualities

within grammatical and ="trms">figurative textures (of ="trms">poetic)

between the ="trms">material and the ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphorical

modes of ="trms">materiality

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(W.A.G.E. working artists and greater economy)
for artists who don't have secondary jobs, their mobility='lgc'>--despite being under="trms">written in many cases by class privilege='lgc'>--is forced. they are wired-up, ="trms">networked carriers of ="trms">social and cultural capital set in perpetual motion, transforming cities in their passage through them on the art circuit='lgc'>--sophisticated nomadic clans who ="trms">travel to survive.

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="trms">nature of things (2013, ="frds">Sina ='lgc'>+ ="frds scrmbld">Elisa)

places marked with zones of limited habitation='lgc'>--you can't live there, you are a visitor

a place that is both wasteland and ="trms">wilderness at the same time

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="lstsrd">1. the christian tradition='lgc'>: it was our ="trms">obligation to use up the earth before the apocalypse
="lstsrd">2. the romantic view='lgc'>: we humans are the servants of the land, we are its eyes, we are its expression

we are becoming visitors of waste ="trms">wilderness, most ="trms">natural and un="trms">natural land ="trms">simultaneously

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the moment the ="trms">world enters my body it has al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready been transformed

for ="frds scrmbld">Elisa and me Bochum's forest was a location, with its decay, it's subtropical humidity and toxins, and because of the way it is ="trms">trapped between the ="trms">natural and the man-made.

“we are forever collecting ourselves” (="ppl">Baudrillard)

we have always encountered the ="trms">world via ="trms">technology
(now ="trms">internet)

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(="ppl">Zoe ="ppl">Todd)
Zapatista (a revolutionary leftist political and militant group based in Chiapas, the southernmost state of Mexico) principles of “walking the ="trms">world into being” (as locus of thought and practice to decolonize posthumanist geographies)
(for ="frds scrmbld">Juanita Sundberg) the zapatista movement theorizes walking as an important practice in building the p="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">luriversale, a ="trms">world in which many ="trms">worlds fit. ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] as we humans move, work, play, and ="trms">narrate with multiplicity of beings in place, we enact ="trms">historically ="trms">contingent and radically distinct ="trms">worlds/="trms">ontologies.

the ="trms">epistemic violence inherent both in academic treatment and dance (they both bring things to life='qstn'>?) (is dance controlled form of violence='qstn'>? does violence always bring things to life contrary to the belief that it kills life='qstn'>?)

="large lg3" stl="font-size:112%"> (i don't want to) trivialize (Amazon and my Amazon trip) as case-study and neutralize its indigenous ="trms">ontologies

(John Hartingan='lgc'>:) ="trms">Anthropo="trms">cene as “charismatic mega-="trms">category”
(of the white intellectual space of the Euro-Western academy)
(which sweeps many competing ="trms">narratives under its roof='qstn'>?)

(indigenous artists, Rebecca Belmore ='and'>& Jolene Rickard='lgc'>:) ="trms">material might act as a bridge, instead of a mirror
(="trms">narcissistic obsession of Western civilization/art with ="trms">material-as-mirror)

(Dwayne Donald='lgc'>:) place-based cultures and knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ="trms">systems
colonialism is basicly “disconnection”, denial of ="trms">relation
(in its heart is ="trms">written “we are not related”)

="large lg4" stl="font-size:110%"> (so few indigenous bodies are ="trms">present in sites where academic discourse are being forged and practiced) when they are ="trms">present, they are often dismissed as biased, overly emotional, or unable to maintain objectivity over the issues they ="trms">present. (can i say the same treat is with ="nms">iranians='qstn'>? and in which s="trms">cene or context='qstn'>? ='lgc'>-- ="nms">iranians are “not” famous for exhaustive discursive unemotional and unopinionated maintenances)[...]