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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).  
 
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).  

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LiDAR on the rocks

The Underground Division (Helen V. Pritchard, Jara Rocha, and Femke Snelting)

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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).

Surrounded by fake rocks in Finsbury Park, we used green string and yellow stickers 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[1], Kathryn Yusoff[2], Elizabeth Povinelli[3], Karen Barad[4] and Denise Fereira Da Silva[5]. 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):[6]

  • 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

  1. N. K. Jemesin, The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth #1) (Orbit, 2014)
  2. Kathryn Yusoff, A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2018)
  3. Elizabeth A. Povinelli, “Can rocks die?” in Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2016) 8-9.
  4. Karen Barad, “TransMaterialities: Trans*/Matter/Realities and Queer Political Imaginings,”. GLQ 1 June 2015; 21 (2-3): 387–422.
  5. Denise Ferreira da Silva, “In the Raw,” e-flux Journal #93 (September 2018), https://www.e-flux.com/journal/93/215795/in-the-raw/
  6. 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. The workshop introduced The Extended Trans*Feminist Rendering Program.