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| ===== Experiments ===== | ===== Experiments ===== |
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| A collection of experiments as embodied manifestations of specific propositions: | A collection of experiments as embodied manifestations of Dust & Shadow propositions. |
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| <blockquote>[T]he importance of propositions is not limited to matters of truth and falsity. Language is used to evoke attention to features of the world that another person may be missing. Perhaps someone wants me to look up at a branch in a nearby tree. She has propositional feelings of a rare bird being there. Her interest may be in my entertaining the same proposition, but the most effective method may be just to point with a certain expression on her face, or to say “look quick” with some excitement. These gestures may lead to the result better than the sober statement that there is a rare bird there. | <blockquote>[T]he importance of propositions is not limited to matters of truth and falsity. Language is used to evoke attention to features of the world that another person may be missing. Perhaps someone wants me to look up at a branch in a nearby tree. She has propositional feelings of a rare bird being there. Her interest may be in my entertaining the same proposition, but the most effective method may be just to point with a certain expression on her face, or to say “look quick” with some excitement. These gestures may lead to the result better than the sober statement that there is a rare bird there. |
| ==== Soundwalk ==== | ==== Soundwalk ==== |
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| [[audio walk|Dust & Shadow (sound)walk]] celebrating the arrival of desert spring in a panpsychic tradition. (March 24 2018) | [[audio walk|Dust & Shadow (sound)walk]] celebrates the arrival of desert spring in a panpsychic tradition. (March 24 2018) |
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| Question: What arts become possible if we widen the 'sentience spectrum' and emphasize experience and interaction with diverse beings? | Question: What arts become possible if we widen the 'sentience spectrum' and emphasize experience and interaction with diverse beings? |
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| <blockquote> Solvitur ambulando... </blockquote> | <blockquote> Solvitur ambulando... </blockquote> |
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| The participants are invited to attune, to experience diverse forms of listening, and to practice a geomancy for the age of climate chaos. Walking in silence through the Sonoran dust in the shadow of civilisation, the participants may begin to hear the murmur of matter, uncover desert refugia amidst urban life, and forge new connections with the unexpected. | |
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| Date: Saturday, March 24, 2018\\ | |
| Time: 6:00pm-8:00pm (golden hour 6:00, sunset 6:40-6:45, blue hour 6:58, dusk 7:08, night 8:06) \\ | |
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| Location: Moeur Park \\ | |
| Meeting locale: [[https://goo.gl/maps/oA1hYbeNuR92|North Shore Volley Ball courts]], Tempe Town Lake \\ | |
| Park on E Lake View Drive under the 202 highway overpass. The walk will begin under the overpass. \\ | |
| GPS coordinates 33.435206,-111.941293 \\ | |
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| ==== Dusted Vinyl ==== | |
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| {{:dust_and_shadow:testpressing.jpg?220 |}}The field recordings and soundwalk condensed into a 12" vinyl record, consisting of two 18 minute tracks "Dust" and "Shadow". The record includes a selection of desert dust which can be used for further physical manipulation of the sound matter. Incomplete without surface noise. | ==== Visual Proposition ==== |
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| Mastered by [[https://blog.discogs.com/en/mastering-engineering-interview-with-frederic-stader/|Frederic Stader]] | <blockquote>This film is a proposition in the full sense that Alfred North Whitehead intended this term. A proposition, for Whitehead, is neither true nor false in itself. It is a lure for feeling the world that “might be.” A proposition is what places a concrescing subject (an occasion of experience) in relation to a potential predicative pattern. It is the potential togetherness of subject and predicate that characterizes a proposition and not its actual exemplification. But propositions do not hang in the thin air of abstraction; they always emerge from somewhere and are entertained by an actual subject within a particular milieu. The proposition’s relevance and importance (or its “truth”—in William James’ sense) is contingent upon the world that it finds itself within. This experimental film fabricates a propositional space in which subjects (Phoenix, urban desert, etc.) are drawn together with predicative patterns (shadow Bellmont, pharmacological uncertainty, communicational indeterminacy, etc.) to lure us into certain modes of attunement. Since the world we inhabit may not yet be ready to entertain such a proposition, we must actively forge the conditions under which it might begin to. |
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| <blockquote>Beneath the dense noise of humanity, countless tiny critters fill the air with chittering, buzzing and clicking. Sparse atmospheres seething with intermittent bursts of activity. Vast geological scales cast long contours across space and time, imposing a silent, harsh indifference. The hollow sounds of failed experiments adrift in the effervescent flurry of progress. Intensifying densities and distances. The desert expanse is suffused with the murmur of matter transforming, expanding or disappearing, as dust storms gather in the wavering shadows of the Anthropocene. | <cite>Adam Nocek</cite> </blockquote> |
| <cite>FoAM</cite></blockquote> | |
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| | The ideas for the film have been translated into an [[video|audio-visual]] lecture performance for the launch of the Desert Humantities Institute in the fall of 2019. |
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| ==== Library Salon ==== | ==== Proposition cards ==== |
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| The Desert Salon in the Hayden library is envisaged as a "physical narrative". It is a space filled with objects and media collected together as fragments of a possible future scenario. In this case, it's a scenario for an alternative future of Phoenix with a somewhat Solar Punk inspired atmosphere. The design is intimate and contemplative, inviting deceleration, solidarity (with humans and other-than-humans), appreciation, care, elation and relief, without losing a sense of irreverence and resistance. | Question: How to translate Whitehead's proposition into a generative worldbuilding toolkit? |
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| In this scenario, the Hayden library still exists, but it is used slightly differently. It became a monastic entity for rethinking time and re-attuning the urban clock-time to the rhythms of the desert. It's a hybrid between a study space, listening bar, an intimate lounge room and an exploded publication. It is suggestive of a library in a speculative desert university, where Occult sciences, fictocriticism, coven studies and dust theory are common fields of study. | |
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| Moodboard: https://www.pinterest.com/deziluzija/dust-shadow/ \\ | Proposition: A card game. A workshop to design a deck of cards using the [[futuring|Shadow Belmont scenario]] as a starting point. |
| {{ :dust_and_shadow:20190715-d_s_library-design_guide.pdf |Design guide}} | |
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| <blockquote>At best, the listening bar raises good questions about whether there might be an unrealized public-listening or group-listening ideal in a ritual as familiar as going out for a drink. (...) I understood something about the tactility and enlivening qualities of sound better than ever before: Sound can be a three-dimensional space in which to put your body, and in which your body may be acted upon and opened up, even when you are sitting still. I seemed to understand the physics of it: tones as standing waves, and me in the middle of them, one of them. Or, if you prefer the language of another sense, it was like seeing colors after knowing only grays. (...) As a natural consequence of hearing in that detail, I could also sense the physicality of the people making the music — their throats, hands, reflexes, sensibilities. (...) The room’s goldenrod curtains stay drawn, and its interior is unremarkably brown enough that you can turn your attention to the spectacular thing going on before and around you, which is sound. (...) a total break in your waking hours. A cleaned window. An open window! | FoAM hosts a workshop to design a deck of cards that can be used to create different propositions - in workshop situations, in classrooms, futures sessions, policy labs, etc. |
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| <cite>[[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/03/dining/vinyl-records-listening-bar-kissaten.html|Ben Rattlif in NY Times]]</cite> </blockquote> | When: September 26 2019 \\ |
| | Where: CPT\\ |
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| The production of the vinyl and the Desert Salon in the Library has been awarded an [[https://ihr.asu.edu/research/seed/audio-attunements-desert-living|IHR Seed Grant]]. | Inspirations: [[https://futuryst.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-thing-from-future.html|The Thing From The Future]], [[http://superflux.in/index.php/and-now-for-something-completely-different/#|Instant Archetypes]] (pictured). |
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| ==== Visual Proposition ==== | {{>http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/47297686712 ?maxwidth=1000}} |
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| <blockquote>This film is a proposition in the full sense that Alfred North Whitehead intended this term. A proposition, for Whitehead, is neither true nor false in itself. It is a lure for feeling the world that “might be.” A proposition is what places a concrescing subject (an occasion of experience) in relation to a potential predicative pattern. It is the potential togetherness of subject and predicate that characterizes a proposition and not its actual exemplification. But propositions do not hang in the thin air of abstraction; they always emerge from somewhere and are entertained by an actual subject within a particular milieu. The proposition’s relevance and importance (or its “truth”—in William James’ sense) is contingent upon the world that it finds itself within. This experimental film fabricates a propositional space in which subjects (Phoenix, urban desert, etc.) are drawn together with predicative patterns (shadow Bellmont, pharmacological uncertainty, communicational indeterminacy, etc.) to lure us into certain modes of attunement. Since the world we inhabit may not yet be ready to entertain such a proposition, we must actively forge the conditions under which it might begin to. | |
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| <cite>Adam Nocek</cite> </blockquote> | |
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