Volumetric Regimes: Material Cultures of Quantified Presence [electronic resource].

Open Humanities Press 2022

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3D computation has historically co-evolved with Modern technosciences, and aligned with the regimes of optimisation, normalisation and hegemonic world order. The legacies and projections of industrial development leave traces of that imaginary and tell the stories of a lively tension between “the probable” and “the possible”. Defined as the techniques for measuring volumes, volumetrics all too easily (re)produce and accentuate the probable, and this process is intensified within the technocratic realm of contemporary hyper-computation. The ubiquity of efficient operations is deeply damaging in the way it gradually depletes the world of all possibility for engagement, interporousness and lively potential. Volumetric Regimes: material cultures of quantified presence proposes an urgent intersectional inquiry into volumetrics to foreground procedural, theoretical and infrastructural practices that provide with a widening of the possible. This book brings together diverse materials from an ongoing conversation between artists, software developers and theorists working with techniques and technologies for detecting, tracking, printing, modelling and rendering volumes.
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Space (Architecture)
Critical Theory
Computer networks
Sculpture
Computer software

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Possible Bodies
Jara Rocha
Femke Snelting
Blanca Pujals
Sina Seifee
Nicolas Malevé
Simone C. Niquille
Maria Dada
Phil Langley
Helen V. Pritchard
Kym Ward
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Sophie Boiron
Pierre Huyghebaert
Romi Ron Morrison
The Underground Division
Manetta Berends
Geoff Cox
Joasia Krysa
Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey
Liverpool John Moores University
London South Bank University