Jemma Woolmore

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GMU:Maps, Territories and Possibility Spaces

2023-05-30T15:00:10Z

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''The map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness. — Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity, p. 58.

Maps and territories contrast two manifestations of space: there are inner mental maps that are subject to the logic of our brain and the functioning of neurons. And there is a territory outside. It shows causalities with which we live and act unquestioned and validate with formulas.
Possibility spaces are a rather new promise. The term comes from mathematics and describes all states of a system, which in our case is described by sensor data and spatial coordinates. The humanities have assigned great power and vision to these spaces: described by Foucault as utopias, virtual spaces are now places of rich life under entirely new conditions.
The project deals with questions of craftsmanship in working with space with the help of sensors as well as with the technological history and constitution of space. In the end, our corporality is and remains the central point of orientation and the measure of reference.
It will also be examined how philosophical questions, which in the end ask how utopias become visions and how these can be brought into a non-violent relation and strategy to and in the present.

The project expects the participants to conceive and elaborate a self-defined work, but also offers numerous literature and excursions on the topic.

Part of the project is a field trip to [http://schieferpark.de/ Schieferpark] /Thüringen as an intensive working retreat in early June (5.6. until 9.6.).
The specialized modules of the professorship are recommended for technical assistance.

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Karten und Territoren stellen zwei Raummanifestationen gegenüber: da gibt es innere mentale Räume, die der Logik unseres Gehirns und der Funktionsweise der Neuronen unterliegen. Und es gibt ein Territorium draussen, das Kausalitäten aufweist, mit denen wir ungefragt leben und handeln.
Möglichkeitsräume sind ein eher neues Versprechen. Der Term kommt aus der Mathematik und beschreibt alle Zustände eines Systems, das in unserem Fall durch Sensordaten und Raumkoordinaten beschrieben wird. Die Geistesgeschichte weisst diesen Räumen eine große Kraft und Vision zu: von Foucault als Utopien beschrieben, sind virtuelle Räume mittlerweile Orte von reichhaltigem Leben unter ganz neuen Bedingungen.

Im Projekt geht es sowohl um handwerkliche Fragen im Arbeiten mit Raum unter zur Hilfenahme von Sensoren wie auch um die technologische Geschichte und Verfaßtheit von Raum. Dabei ist und bleibt letztendlich unsere Körperlichkeit zentraler Orientierungspunkt und Maßgabe der Referenz.
Es soll auch untersucht werden, wie weltanschauliche Fragestellungen, die letztendlich danach fragen, wie aus Utopien Visionen werden und wie diese in eine gewaltfreie Relation und Strategie zur und in die Gegenwart gebracht werden können.

Das Projekt erwartet von den Teilnehmern die Konzeption und Ausarbeitung eines selbstdefinierten Werkes, bietet aber auch zahlreiche Literatur und Exkurse zum Thema.

Bestandteil des Projektes ist eine Exkursion in den [http://schieferpark.de/ Schieferpark] als intensivem Arbeitsretreat Anfang Juni (5. - 9. Juni).
Empfohlen werden die Fachmodule der Professur zur technischen Hilfestellung.
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== '''Fach courses''' ==
* [https://playground.uni-weimar.de/coding/ coding]
* outplaying the videogame
* [https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/GMU:AI_beyond_mystification_%E2%80%93_an_introduction_to_the_discussion_on_machine_learning AI beyond mystification]
* Experimental Interaction Environments

== Syllabus - '''Presentations'''==
* 16.05.: N.N.
* 23.05.: Viviane - Cerrado: an introduction
* 30.05.: Zelda - glitch art & reclaiming the fractures Betül Peker Art and 3D Scan (?)
* Retreat
* 13.06.:
* 20.06.: Luka Friedland _ Virtual tourism and content extraction: Approaching the medium of digital games with more traditional artistic practices. Dahye Seo _ Lyn Margulis; Simon: Material - Sound - Waves
* 27.06.: no course - possibly postponed to 29th
* 04.07.: Torben _ Cybernetics and the idiosyncratic life of systems. Cosmo_ Erika Fischer-Lichte - Performativity and Aesthetic Experiences. Mina _ Utopias
* 11.07.: N.N.

== '''Materials:''' ==

'''Books:'''
* [https://monoskop.org/images/6/65/Bateson_Gregory_Steps_to_an_Ecology_of_Mind_1987.pdf Gregory Bateson: Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology]
* [https://ilam3d.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/alfred-korzybksi-science-and-sanity.pdf Alfred Korzybski: Science and Sanity – An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics]
* Die Heterotopien. Der utopische Körper: Zwei Radiovorträge by Michel Foucault ISBN 978-3518296714
* [https://web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/foucault1.pdf Michel Foucault. Of Other Spaces: Utopias and Heterotopias in english]
* Raumwissenschaften Hg.: Stefan Günzel ISBN 978-3-518-29491-8
* Program Earth by Jennifer Gabrys ISBN 978-0-8166-9314-6
* How to Do Things with Sensors by Jennifer Gabrys ISBN 978-1-5179-0831-7
* Sensing Machines by Chris Salter ISBN 9780262046602
* See yourself Sensing by Madeline Schwartzman ISBN 1907317295
* The Architecture Machine by Nicolas Negroponte ISBN 978-0262640107
* Frederick J. Kieseler: Endless Space ISBN 3-7757-1047-7
* Hans Baumer: Sferics ISBN 9783498004873
* Douglas Davies: Vom Experiment zur Idee. Die Kunst des 20. Jh im Zeichen von Wissenschaft und Technologie ISBN 9783770108114
* Mapping It Out: An Alternative Atlas of Contemporary Cartographies ISBN 978-0500239186
* The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography ISBN 978-1568989723
* Cartographies of Time: A History of the Timeline ISBN 978-1616890582
* [https://monoskop.org/images/1/1d/Uexkuell_Jakob_von_A_Stroll_Through_the_Worlds_of_Animals_and_Men_A_Picture_Book_of_Invisible_Worlds.pdf Uexkülls Stroll through the worlds of animals and men]
* Georges Canguilhelm Über Maurice Halbwachs - Henning Schmidgen Das Problem der Umwelt ISBN 978-3-7518-9007-6
* [https://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/si/report.html Report on the Construction of Situations and on the International Situationist Tendency's Conditions of Organization and Action]
* [https://archive.org/details/micromanlivinggr00pask/mode/2up Microman by Gordon Pask & Susan Curran]

Traditional Artists:

* [https://cdn.contemporaryartlibrary.org/store/doc/2119/docfile/original-310b6e0377ae8266379da151866894a7.pdf Ocean Earth by Peter Weibel and Peter Fend]
* [https://www.dennisaoppenheim.org/ Website Dennis Oppenheim]
* [https://youtu.be/LAhrSiUeP2I Memory Palace Documentation by Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller]
* [https://youtu.be/UTU5j33hK2o Paul McCarthy @ WhitneyMuseum]
* [https://www.diaart.org/visit/visit-our-locations-sites/walter-de-maria-the-lightning-field Lightning Field by Walter de Maria]
* [https://www.documenta14.de/en/artists/5877/alvin-lucier Alvin Luciers "Sferics" Installation]
* [https://rewana.com/ Ana Rewakowicz]
* [https://www.simonfaithfull.org/ Simon Faithfull]

Digital Artists/Designers/Architects:
* [https://www.angelidakis.com/ Andreas Angelidakis]
* [https://forensic-architecture.org/ Forensic Architecture]
* [https://www.reversibledestiny.org/ Arakawa/Gins]
* [https://ricardodominguez.net/ Ricardo Dominguez]
* [http://courchel.net/ Luc Courchesne], [https://youtu.be/9E4idA6POxM Luc Courchesne on Cyberspace at a TED Talk]
* [https://www.dwbowen.com/ David Bowen]
*[https://vimeo.com/44721227 Gravicells by Mikami/Ichikawa], [https://vimeo.com/56312901 Videodocumentation]
* [https://www.evdh.net/evolving_spark_network/ Edwin von der Heide: Sparks]
* [https://www.lozano-hemmer.com/ Raphael Lozano-Hemmer]
* [https://www.yolandeharris.net/work/satellite-sounders Yolande Harris: Satellite Sounders]
* [https://vimeo.com/7560336 Home of the Brain by Monika Fleischmann]
* [https://www.dattasaurabh.com/Overskopia Overskopia by Saurabh Datta]
* [https://vimeo.com/361612991/40ebed00a5 Gerhard Eckel, VR Artwork from 2000]

== '''Topics for Presentations/Lectures to prepare (by students):''' ==

* on Hans Baumers Sferics
* on Peter Fends Ocean Earth
* Dennis Oppenheims oevre
* Dew Collectors
* Ana Rewakowicz works
* "Video Place" by Myron Krueger
* "The map is not the territory"
* VR as a "map of a territory"
* KI as a new form of map

== '''other Materials:''' ==
* [https://www.postwarcultureatbeinecke.org/guy-debord on Guy Debord in english]
* [https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/105796-science-and-sanity-an-introduction-to-non-aristotelian-systems-and-gene Alfred Korzybski, on Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics]
* [https://www.menimagerie.com/manuscripts/2018/6/8/the-ill-defined-possibility-space Menimagerie Website]
* [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sferics Sferics bei Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_niche Ecological Niche and their spaces]
* [https://kg.ikb.kit.edu/hinterwaldner/downloads/hinterwaldner_ws_18_19/08_art_n_tech_software_burnham_01online.pdf Materials from Inge Hinterwaldner Art & Technology Bewegungen in Amerika]
* [https://www.telepolis.de/features/Re-Reeducation-oder-Kunst-und-Konditionierung-3415671.html Lutz Dambeck on Technology and Seek (Installation by Niclolas Negroponte)]
* [https://cambridge.nuvustudio.com/posts/329097-architecture-of-gerbils-and-machine Video documentation on the revival of "Seek"]
* [https://www.daowo.org/ DAOWO]
* [https://tbt.tome.press/ Transborder Immigrant Tool by Ricardo Dominguez]
* [https://vimeo.com/7560336 ETOYS Digital Hijack (1996)]

== '''Students:''' ==
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* [[Betül Peker.]]
* [https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/GMU:Maps,_Territories_and_Possibility_Spaces/Luka_Friedland Luka*s Friedland]
* [https://echo.bau-ha.us/mindpath Zelda Diedrich]
* [[Simon]]
* [https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/GMU:Maps,_Territories_and_Possibility_Spaces/Torben_Zsagar Torben Zsagar]
* [https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/GMU:Maps,_Territories_and_Possibility_Spaces/DahyeSeo Dahye Seo]
* [[Cosmo Schüppel]]
* [[Benjamin Bąk]]
* [[Jemma Woolmore]]

Inspiration and References

2023-03-29T20:08:06Z

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==REFERENCES==
Batten, Juliet. Power From Within: A feminist guide to ritual-making, 1988.

Bellacasa, Maria Puig de la. Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More Than Human Worlds, 2017

Haraway, Donna. Staying with the Trouble, 2016

Liboiron, Max. Pollution is Colonialism, 2021

Oliveros, Pauline. Deep listening. A composer's sound practice, 2005.

Strauss, Carolyn F. (ed.) Slow Spatial Reader. Chronicles of Radical Affection, 2021

==ARTISTS==
Ana Mendieta

AM Kanngieser

Pauline Oliveros

Jakob Kudsk Steensen

Ayumi Paul

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WORKING PROCESS

2023-03-29T20:07:47Z

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''SENSORS AND SENSING''

1.12.2022
'''water sensor'''
https://lastminuteengineers.com/water-level-sensor-arduino-tutorial/

The water sensor is used to detect the presence of water and is typically used to monitor water levels, detect the presence of water or leaks in spaces that need to be kept dry or detect rain fall.
The water sensor is essentially a variable resistor that has more or less resistance depending on the amount of water it comes in contact with.
It works very well at detecting the presence of water but the jump to the maximum range very quickly when more than a few drops of water are applied.

To connect the Arduino, water sensor and three LED's to indicate the amount of water present I followed the circuit diagram and code here:
https://create.arduino.cc/projecthub/123lYT/simple-water-level-sensor-with-led-ebf3f7

In this example the sensor is being used as a rain indicator, so three states were defined: Dry Weather, Average rain and Heavy rain. Depending on the level of water present one of three LED lights would turn on and a corresponding message would be printed in the Arduino console.

<gallery>
File:WaterSensor.jpg |The Water Sensor
File:3LED_Setup.jpg |Circuit with 3 x LEDs
File:Detect_heavyRain.jpg |Red LED indicating presence of water
File:WaterSensor_3LED.mp4
</gallery>

<source style="border:none; height:auto; overflow:scroll;" lang="c" line start="55" highlight="4">
int blue=2;
int red=3;
int white=4;

void setup () {
pinMode (blue,OUTPUT);
pinMode (red,OUTPUT);
pinMode (white,OUTPUT);
Serial.begin (9600);}

void loop() {
// read the input on analog pin 0:
int value = analogRead(A0);
Serial.println (value );

if (value > 500) {
Serial.println("Very heavy Rain");
digitalWrite (blue,LOW);
digitalWrite(red,HIGH);
digitalWrite(white,HIGH);}
else if ((value > 100) && (value <= 500)) {
Serial.println("AVERAGE Rain");
digitalWrite (red,LOW);
digitalWrite (blue,HIGH);
}
else{
Serial.println("Dry Weather");
digitalWrite (white,LOW);
digitalWrite (red,HIGH);
digitalWrite (blue,HIGH);
delay(100);
}
}
</source>

5.12.2022
'''Learning Ritual'''

[[File:RitualResearch_PowerFromWithin.jpg]]

I have committed to creating one ritual or action per week from now for the duration of the semester. I begin the practice of ritual making from an inexperienced and inhibited place. Making rituals and talking about spirituality makes me uncomfortable, but this is also exciting. I feel clumsy and out of place and so somehow that means this is the right path. To begin this journey I am learning from Jane Batten and reading her book ''Power From Within: A feminist guide to ritual-making''. She gives step be step instructions for crafting your own rituals including how to plan and structure a ritual, examples for each stage of the ritual and tips around specific ceremonies.
Batten also touches on my thinking around ritual - the fears and the reasons to pursue a ritual practice. She talks about the general disapproval to terms like 'ritual', 'spirituality' and 'witch', the feeling that ritual is not real and is more a personal indulgence and the fear that ritual might actually unleash a power within us, all of which touch on the resistance I feel to inhabiting a more spiritual way of being. However she notes "it is no use working to change structures if we do not also change ourselves, a key point that resonates with my reasons for beginning this process. I also identified with her critique of white New Zealander's as "living in a spiritually bereft culture" calling for us to not appropriate the spirituality of the Maori people but to "address our own spiritual needs, evolving a sense of ritual that is relevant for ourselves, right here and now". This is the departure point for this project.

10.12.2022
'''Daphnia as living sensor'''

[[File:bbe-daphtoxII-white-dcee8c20.jpg|300px]]
[[File:daphnia-graphic_crop.jpg|200px]]

Daphnia otherwise known as water fleas are used in water quality testing, to detect contamination with hazardous compounds. The DaphniaToximeter II is in use in water testing facilities around Germany.
Daphnia are used a biological sensor, as a living sensor within a machine, however we could also monitor the health of naturally occuring Daphnia in bodies of water to gauge the health of a river or lake.
I will develop a ritual to establish a connection with Daphnia here in the Ilm and perhaps to begin a practice of care, by checking in on them.

20.12.2022
'''Deep Listening Practice'''

[[File:DeepListening_sml.jpg]]

Deep Listening is a process and a tool to aid in conscious listening. Developed by musician Pauline Oliveros this is a practice to expand our perception of sounds out into the environments around us, out into the 'space/time continuum of sound' and through this expansion to be connected with the environment.
Deep listening practice consists of energy work, body work, breathe exercises, vocalising, listening and dream work. Working from the book ''Deep Listening: a composers sound practice'' by Oliveros I am exploring Deep Listening as a technique to develop connection with rivers.
This is is also linking with work I am doing around soundscapes and recording the sounds of the river as a way of listening- with, being-with and making-with the river.

24.01.2023
'''GRATITUDE'''

''I am grateful for the opportunity to slow down here''

''I am grateful for the water of the river Ilm''

''I am grateful for the water that flows through my body''

''I am grateful for the relaxing sound of the river''

''I am grateful for the rain, the snow and the fog of winter''

''I am grateful for the bountiful food that I eat''

''I am thankful for the beauty of the dancing reflection of light on the water''

''I am grateful for the peacefulness of this park on the Ilm''

''I am grateful for my access to clean drinking water''

''I am grateful to the Daphnia who live inside the Daphnia Toximeter II for their sensing work''

''I am grateful for the warmth and light of the sun''

''I am grateful for the trees breathing and cleaning the air''

''I am grateful for their shade, their colour, their beauty and their sounds''

28.01.2023
'''RIVER ASSEMBLAGES'''

Thinking about Jane Bennett's Vibrant Matter, non-human bodies and the power of assemblages.

[[File:R2_assemblage_sml.jpg]]
[[File:R8_riverAssemblage.jpg]]

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