[...]or
="lsts lst1">•="trms">categorial grammar ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “='lgc'>==>”, “='lgc'>=/=”, etc
="lsts lst1">•conceptual graphs ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> graph-based knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge re="trms">presentation and reasoning model
="lsts lst1">•computational ="trms">geometry ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> geo-info-="trms">sys design
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*computational ="trms">gesture='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> extracorporeal ="trms">material culture
="lsts lst1">•
="lsts lst1">•(complete governance, chaotic God, commanding general, common ground, center of gravity,)
="lsts lst1">•
the well-="trms">="trms">equipped invalid (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">embodiment, ="ppl">Virilio)
(="ppl">="ppl">Foucault's radical exploration of='lgc'>:) body='lgc'> = (subject to the effects of) ="trms">rhetoric of ="trms">technical reason
="trms">techniques of punishment (, a “political ="trms">technology”) ='lgc'>: “an art of unbearable sensations” ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “an economy of suspended ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rights”
="ppl">Deleuze and ="ppl">Guattari='lgc'>: “We know nothing about a body until we know what it can do, in other words, what its ="trms">affects are, how they can or cannot enter into com="trms">position with other ="trms">affects, with the ="trms">affects of another body...” (what are the ="trms">affects of the ="trms">CG bodies='qstn'>?)
="prgrph">-for them the “body” is a discontinuous and non-totalized series of processes, organs, flows, energies, corporeal substances and incorporeal events, intensities and durations, a surface of intensities='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*pure simulacra without o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginals='strcls'>*
="trms">erotogenic zones, sexuality, ="ppl">Freud, auto-="trms">erotic ="trms">internalization, clinamen
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(the formally female cyborg / ="trms">techno-="trms">monster of the Ghost in the Shell='lgc'>:) the (masculinist) fantasy of leaving the body behind and reconstituting it as a a ="trms">technical object under human control as both a desire for perfect knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge and total power and at the same time as a way of escape... ='lgc'>[="ppl">="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Christianson">Christian ="ppl">Hubert='lgc'>] ='at'>#="ppl">="ppl">Haraway
="lsts lst1">•the ="trms">question of the “soul” is ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read as the ="trms">question of (certain ="trms">technology of) power over bodiess
(traits of) cyborg='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. boundary transgression
="lstsrd">2. the recognition and re-scripting of myth
="lstsrd">3. simulations of identity
="lstsrd">4. coalitions of af="trms">finity
re="trms">embodiment of intelligence
="ppl">Hubert > ="ppl">Serres='lgc'>: “My body (I cannot help it) is not plunged into a single, ="trms">specified space. It works in ="ppl">Euclidean space, but it only works there. It sees in a projective space; it touches, caresses, and feels in a topological space; it suffers in another; hears and ="trms">communicates in a third; and so forth, as far as one wishes to go. ="ppl">Euclidean space was chosen in our work-oriented cultures because it is the space of work='lgc'>--of the mason, the surveyor, or the architect. ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] My body lives in as many spaces as the ="trms">society, the group, or the collectivity have formed='lgc'>: the ="ppl">Euclidean house, the street and its ="trms">network, the open and closed garden, the church or the enclosed spaces of the sacred, the school and its spatial varieties containing fixed points, and the complex ensemble of flow-charts, those of ="trms">language, of the factory, of the family, of the political party, and so forth. Consequently my body is not plunged into one space but into the ="trms">intersection or the junctions of this multiplicity.” (Hermes, pp 44-45) (='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Aela)
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(feminist open-source ='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='qstn'>?) I am actually coming from a masculinist closed-source culture-thing, that is to say, my background is in masculinist black-boxed concepts of being and beyond, that means i have a ="trms">different ="trms">relationship with ="trms">interference and parasitism
="lsts lst1">•how and when a concept becomes black-boxed='qstn'>? by which processes='qstn'>?
='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Sven='lgc'>: what ="trms">matters is the input/output, stimulus/="trms">response ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “black-box of the beyond” (='at'>#zolmat ="trms">writing)='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> transfer characteristics, ="trms">data-flow, the ="trms">ontology of the “="trms">internal working” ='lgc'>: “open” exchanges inforamtion about its ="trms">interactions ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> open-source is part of the tradition of ="trms">anthropo="trms">cene ="trms">system thinking='lgc'>: ="trms">network synthesis, ="trms">system engineering, theory of the organism, evolutionary theory, thermodynamics, and ="trms">world ="trms">system perspective
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what are the nodes of energy in ="trms">interdigitalities ="trms">intra-actions in human-machine ="trms">relations='qstn'>?
='strcls'>***we are belonging to a set of cultures that regularly believes in the idiom of='lgc'>: organism ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">technology
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> this little ="trms">ontological dichotomous device is doing ="trms">serious ="trms">worldings, making and destroying ="trms">worlds
="trms">technologies of descriptive practices
="trms">technology is descriptive practice
="trms">technology='lgc'>: anything describable as a ="trms">technology ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> idiom اصطلاح
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='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
age of stone, and ="trms">stories for computers
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(='at'>#workshop in Stuttgart 11.04.2017 with ="frds scrmbld">Femke http://pad.constantvzw.org/p/possiblebodies.="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigging)
provisional sketch for a workshop on “="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">Rigging,” notes and nodes
on the notion and practice of ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">Rig in ="trms">CG
(="trms">CG as in “computational ="trms">gesture”)
='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
on ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">Rigging and skinning='lgc'>: ="trms">stories for cultivating creation and creatures of the industrial empire.
a practice in='lgc'>: ="trms">rhetoric of ="trms">technical reasoning in inorganic skeletal ="trms">animacies.
="lsts lst1">•I begin with the ="trms">position that believes in the essential ambiguity of ="trms">technology
="lsts lst1">•let's look at some terms and notions and the ways they are enacted, practiced, and ="trms">embodied, and to practice some hermeneutic fluency in ="trms">phenomenological conditions in what we call character animation
KEYWORDS='lgc'>: soft bodies, skin, skinnig, ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">Rig, ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">Rigging, unwrapping, ="trms">fold, ="trms">CG, animation, locomotion, kinectics, skeleton, mechanics, ="trms">interface, ="trms">technology,
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="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">Rigs are about='lgc'>:
="prgrph">-ways of arranging space, time and ="trms">matter ='lgc'>: like a sentence, that sticks words sequentially together in a certain way. ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">Rig would be a way those elements are attached to one another in time and space.
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> one-dimenisional skeletal ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">Rigs are generally ="trms">intereseting for ='mywrk'>my research, because of the ="trms">specific sequential order that many forms of culture take. (for example, “tradition” is from that famility of ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">Rigs, a string of things in a particular order and not another. ='lgc'>[='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to totem columns='lgc'>]. “="trms">language” is another one.)
="lsts lst2">◦what are the degrees of flexibilty, stretch and tention between the nodes in a ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">Rig='qstn'>?
="lsts lst2">◦what a substitution in a string-="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">Rig might change the ways that being is animated, and therefore change the meaning='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-that means='lgc'>: change the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">Rig, and you will change the ways space and time are arranged
="prgrph">-that means='lgc'>: thinking about ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">Rigs is like thinking about the ="trms">language, or better='lgc'>: ="trms">ontological commitments embedded in ="trms">language. and since we are ="trms">interested in ="trms">materiality ='lgc'>[that means='lgc'>: ="trms">material human-="trms">technology ="trms">relations='lgc'>], i would ask='lgc'>: what are the ="trms">material objects that this ="trms">language commits us to='qstn'>? to be more exact='lgc'>: what are the ="trms">material objects that the ="trms">language-="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">Rig commits the ="trms">CG-hacker to='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-="trms">ontological assumptions embeded in any “device” (English grammar, ="trms">CG ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">Rigs, architect's tools, a de="trms">finition in ="trms">language, etc.)
="prgrph">-="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">Rigs are clever ="trms">technological provisional constructions, (always) setup for a ="trms">specific ="trms">naturalization.
="prgrph">-="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">Rigs ="trms">articulate ="trms">animacies, that is to say='lgc'>: they are almost ="trms">linguistic structures that shape or determine our animations
="prgrph">-="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">Rigs do consequential work
="prgrph">-how elements are arranged together, how they are ="trms">composed, how they are brought into ="trms">relation in the space of a field, ="trms">narrative, text, environment, etc
whenever you give a de="trms">finition (a ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor, a concept) and work with it, and find yourself committed to certain findings, tracings and meanings because of that='lgc'>: you are working with a ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">Rig. that is to say='lgc'>: ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">Rigs are de="trms">finitional structures, not arguments themselves, but their conditions.
then the ="trms">question would be='lgc'>: when do you know that it is time to dismantle a ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">Rig='qstn'>? how to recognize, learn to reuse or repurpose old ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">Rigs='qstn'>?
in ="trms">CG the business of ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">Rigging and ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">Rig-making is handed to the engineering talent and point of view, it has made a pure ="trms">technical problem.
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skeletal, it's all about the ‘arm’
http://www.toxik.sk/img/maya2011_ya.jpg
an arm is a spaciotemporal particularity
the organisms that ="trms">crafted in their bodies the subphylum vertebrata, a terrestrial ="trms">technology for moving the flesh.
the images we make are made in the image of the one-with-arms
mechanical
bipedal
facial
quadrupedal
many arms and legs
spinal
surficial
hair
feather
rain ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">Rig by محمد عبدالله
eqFUnFPcuwg
an Optimus Prime transformation ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">Rig by Eske Yoshinob
VDrAzeNS2pk='qstn'>?t=28
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(strictly) possible tranformational arrangements
how a being is ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">Rigged into transformational particularities
in this sense, the ="trms">question of the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">Rig is ="trms">ontoloical, specially in a ="trms">world populated by devices and ="trms">technique[...]