Granular Realism. Changing spatial condition of photography

A presentation about new activist possibilities within the changing spatial condition of photography in the context of Episode 1: Forensic Architecture from The Future Of Demonstration | Season 1.

Moderator: Noit Banai
Participants: Ariel Caine, FA
Aziz al-Turi, Bedouin Activist
and invited guests from an open call

Over the last decade, emerging forms of digital and computational imaging using depth registering capabilities have forged a new condition in photography – one in which the photographic functions not as a flat image to be viewed, but as a 3D environment to be navigated. Currently, this understanding (manifestation) of photography as environment is most advanced in point-cloud data objects. The point-cloud brings together dry data and an other-worldliness, a translucency and hyperreality that we may call (refer to as) granular realism.

3D photo imaging in its various technological forms has permeated the fields of archaeology, architecture, civil engineering, and municipal and state planning as well as agricultural, geological and resource driven industries. Restructuring them from the inside, it simultaneously opens up new spaces for intervention and resistance.

In this seminar we will consider the ways in which practitioners, researchers and activists have been repurposing such imaging tools in order to open up spaces for civic participation.

We would like to extend a call to practitioners and researchers involved with such investigations to prepare five minute presentations on their projects and join the discussion.

20:00 open bar and music