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💭Where does the “self” end and where does the “other” begin? How different from others are we, really? In a present world that has lived through social distancing, while developing more and new ways of keeping “in touch” without really touching, our bodies hold a valuable material and symbolic significance in building community. In times of social distress, it is important to remember the connection we share with others.
Through a worldwide performance, François-Joseph Lapointe follows the dynamics of bacterial contamination, shaking hands with strangers from Copenhagen to Paris, through Montreal, Perth, San Francisco and Baltimore. 🗺️
🦠 “We are both part of a complex network of microbes commonly referred to as the microbiome, which is an essential part of our individual and collective bodies. The composition of my microbiome fluctuates on a daily basis, according to my all my actions and encounters. Although my genome is fixed, my microbiome is changeable and adaptable. I can transform my microbiome as I wish to change my identity”.
🤝 “The performance of 1,001 handshakes raises awareness through physical engagement, through acts of participation and exchange at the social, individual, and microbial levels. As a scientist, the objective of this experiment was to collect scientific data on the human microbiome, the dynamics of contamination of my microbiome in contact with the microbiome of others. As a bioartist, it was more the notion of individuality that appealed to me, a philosophical concept that I formalize through microbiome self-portraits”.
A scientific experience that shows the process of exchanging microbiomes through our contact with others, followed by an artistic interrogation: am I still the same after shaking hands with 1001 strangers? 🫂
🔗“1001 handshakes” by François-Joseph Lapointe. Full zoom.able experience now on: https://able-journal.org/1001-handshakes/
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📲 Quality of information, even just our access to it, represents a determining factor in the seek for justice. New technologies for investigating also mean new approaches to our relationship with institutions and discourses, as well as our ability to question them.
Though not exclusive to the country, this approach touches on a very important subject in France these days, one that goes back to recent years of struggles between different power dynamics. Today, research in innovative image technologies can have a crucial role in gathering evidence to balance out disparities.
🔎 “Seeing beyond the frame(s)” is an article proposed by Francesco Sebregondi and Emile Costard. Through the use of a counter-investigation as a case-study, they discuss the methodology of image-to-space analysis for citizen investigations.
Following the death of Zineb Redouane, struck in the head by a tear gas grenade in 2018 during "Acte III" of Gilets Jaunes protests, French investigative media organization Disclose.ngo and the research agency Forensic Architecture, produced a counter-enquiry into the circumstances of her death. The resulting report, provided evidence of the responsibility of the French police for her killing.
By revisiting the case, the publication brings questions of methods and techniques of visual analysis to the foreground, in an effort to discuss the benefits, as well as the limitations, of using such tools in the particular research framework of a citizen investigation: namely, one in which access to data is limited by underlying structures of power, and where the question of seeing beyond the established frame(s)—of images, of discourses—forms the primary research challenge.
⏩ A video.able format that deploys a visual explanation of the techniques pioneered by Forensic Architecture to produce its investigative reports […] to foster the development, and widespread adoption, of open-source visual techniques for citizen investigations.
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Next week, on .able journal's social media:
“seeing beyond the frame(s): a case study of image-to-space analysis for citizen investigation”.
An article by Francesco Sebregondi & Emile Costard.
🔗 Full video.able experience in our feed next week or right now at: https://able-journal.org/seeing-beyond-the-frames/
"Going with the flow": exploring ecotechnologies in practice:
How much does a mature tree swell, shrink and grow in one day?🌞 🌛
Humans together with non-human agents (artists, scientists, instruments, environment...) address the question through #datavisualization.
Trees take risks during the growing season by boosting transpiration (sap flow) or they hold back. Veins expanding, contracting. 💧Water is pulled upwards from the soil to the air, passing by tree stems. But if drought occurs, #trees could die.
Because of its regular fluctuations, the process can be compared to the pulse of a heart.❤️
During daytime☀, trees transpire, resulting in stem water movement. This decreases from the outer to the inner sapwood, and because of dehydration, stem shrinkage ensues.
During the night🌙, the stem swells due to rehydration and water recharge.
Scientists👩🔬monitor the tree stem with heated needles, and encircle the tree trunks with straps and machines. A dendrometer quantifies the changes in the stem’s size due to swelling, shrinkage, and growth, rendering it in microns. The samples concur, the tree is constantly changing.
Here, sap flow becomes a series of dots, densifying, the tree water deficit is inferred by the changing dimensions of the intervals between lines, pointing to local #changes and changes in the tree. Building together, from experience, the knowledge about and in changing #Climates, opening up to multiplicities, embracing #ecotechnologies in practice.
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an article by Acer saccharum, Daniel Kneeshaw, Marie-Eve Morissette, Christoforos Pappas, Gisèle Trudel, cameras, computers, data loggers, dendrometers, electricity, heat, humidity, maple grove, médiane, microphones, Québec, rain, Sainte-Émélie-de-l’Énergie, sap flow sensors, SmartForests Canada, software, soil, sugar bush, sun, time, touch designer, water, wind & 60 frames per second.
(website: mediane.uqam.ca Chaire Médiane)
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Ozu in 2.5D
Everything happens as if we were dealing with the most natural, most common world, and yet from the outset we notice a lapse—the characters move in an artificial way, their expression is always missing, they seem to float, between presence and absence.
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"Ozu in 2.5D" is an original visual experience that explores the Japanese film director Ozu's singular approach to perspective construction. Stratified in superimposed layers like cartoons, rather than unified according to the rules of the vanishing point, this new image composition, between 2D and 3D creates a specific relationship to the world.
🧐This pan.able is an invitation to meditate at the borders between visual arts and the psychology of perception. To think this in-between, between the 2D of the image and the 3D of reality, the 2.5D can be understood both as a new approach to perspective construction and as a specific relationship to the world. In the sense of perspective, the Ozuian image does not seem to be constructed linearly according to the rules of the vanishing point that unify a homogeneous and structured space. Rather, it is constructed according to a principle of superimposed layers, like cartoons. It shows the passage from an image as a section of the real to an image as a recomposition of the real, from a conception of unified space to a conception of stratified space.
Metaphorically, this in-between time of 2.5D reveals that behind the purity and serenity of Ozu’s images a form of drama is at play: the character haunts the world more than he inhabits it. He is in the lining. He is no longer a singular character (editor's note: a father) in a fiction, but a prototype, an idea. There Was a Father, in reference to the title of another Ozu film.
The procedure of the pan.able enables us to appreciate this disconnect of the real space and its substitution by an artificial and stratified image. It gives the impression of both looking at a fun flip book and facing a ghost, escaped from it
💭 How can communities face environmental changes?
The answer in "Chaitén: Land of Volcanoes", a visual article available on able-journal.org.
🌋🌎 In May 2008, the Chaitén volcano erupted in northwestern Patagonia, prompting one of the largest evacuations in modern Chilean history. Amid the ruins, the townspeople are building an interpretive center to share their cultural and geological heritage. This story is a testament to the resilience of a community in the face of constant environment changes.
"This is part of a vibrant creative explosion inadvertently prompted by the volcanic eruption." 🤝🌱
An article by Karen Holmberg (New York University NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study), Andres Burbano (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)), Constanza Gomez (Fundación ProCultura), Pierre Puentes (independent designer), Javiera Letelier Cosmelli (Universidad Austral de Chile & CIEP), Amy Donovan (University of Cambridge), Julie Morin (University of Cambridge), Rory Walshe (University of Cambridge) & Thierry Dupradou fotógrafo (independent photographer).
The graphic design work for this submission was funded by the ‘This is Not a Drill’ program directed by Mona Sloane through the Future Imagination Fund at NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
This project was made possible by the unflagging efforts of Constanza Gomez with Fundación ProCultura to assist the recovery of Chaitén and is dedicated to the Chaitén townspeople and their resilience.
🔗 Link for full pan.able experience: able-journal.org/chaiten-land-of-volcanoes
#archaeology #climate #chile #community #ecology #environment
A little warm-up to get ready for the meeting tonight 🌋
"Chaitén: Land of Volcanoes": a story of a community's #resilience and rich #culturalheritage faced with constant #environmentalchallenges.
🔔March 27 at 6 pm (Paris time)
Meet the authors of the articles as well as .able's network for our live session: inside the making of .able👇
https://instagram.com/ablejournal?upcoming_event_id=18353126095007192
How does .able work? How do we visually design an article on .able? We will answer all your questions during the meeting!
with Karen Holmberg, Contanza Gomez (Fundación ProCultura) Pauline Personeni (Actar Publishers, urbanNext) and Gwenaelle Lallemand
For full #panable article available on .able's website 🔗
https://able-journal.org/chaiten-land-of-volcanoes/
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We’re very excited to announce that after years of preparation, .able journal is finally out! 🥳
Starting from today, you can have full and free access to our website and online articles!
Whether you are a specialist or an amateur, whether you are already involved in interdisciplinary research🧐 or just a curious soul discovering it🤩, you’re sure to find something that will meet your interest on .able.
From the design of sustainable fashion or bioluminescent micro-architecture to the dynamics of bacterial contamination or the exploration of deep sleep, .able combines academic excellence, artistic rigor, and accessibility focused on exploring contemporary sociopolitical and environmental issues in images and putting these challenges into perspective.✨
.able’s aim is to deliver visual essays to the academic sphere and beyond, to bring this research and creation to as wide an audience as possible.🤝
👉Visit able-journal.org to access a peer-reviewed journal exploring the full potential of multimedia and multi-platform publishing.
👀Try the 5 original .able formats for a radically different visual experience than a traditional academic journal.
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Created at the initiative of Chaire « arts & sciences »of École polytechnique, École des Arts Décoratifs - Paris Université PSL, and Fondation Daniel et Nina #Carasso, the journal is published by Actar Publishers and supported by some thirty international academic partners, brought together to promote and publish innovative interdisciplinary research where sensitivity is at the foreground.
We would like to warmly thank our academic partners as well as our artistic and cultural partners, the contributors, the editorial mediators, and all the people that contributed to the development of .able.
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