Optic Matters - Revision history

Saskia at 10:31, 1 March 2025

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	'''"Return"''' to Cut 3 to pick up the thread after Covid-19 restrictions were lifted.</div>		'''"Return"''' to Cut 3 to pick up the thread after Covid-19 restrictions were lifted.</div>

	<span class="detour to-cut-2 link" data-page-title="Aesthetic_Action" data-section-id="9" data-encounter-type="detour">[[Point of Beginning Animated Graphic Documentary\|Detour to Cut 2: ~~Aesthetic Action~~]]</span>		<span class="detour to-cut-2 link" data-page-title="Aesthetic_Action" data-section-id="9" data-encounter-type="detour">[[Point of Beginning Animated Graphic Documentary\|Detour to Cut 2: Community-based filmmaking]]</span>

	<span class="return to-cut-3 link" data-page-title="Wayfaring_the_BW_project" data-section-id="5" data-encounter-type="return">[[Wayfaring the BW project#Fieldtrip BW Team Coral Harbour Summer 2021\|Return to Cut 3: Wayfaring the BW project]]</span>		<span class="return to-cut-3 link" data-page-title="Wayfaring_the_BW_project" data-section-id="5" data-encounter-type="return">[[Wayfaring the BW project#Fieldtrip BW Team Coral Harbour Summer 2021\|Return to Cut 3: Wayfaring the BW project]]</span>

Saskia at 10:29, 1 March 2025

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	Participation is about co-presence.		Participation is about co-presence.

	~~such~~ co-presence during the TEK interviews, however, materialized unevenly across locations.		Such co-presence during the TEK interviews, however, materialized unevenly across locations.

	Though absent in body, the BearWatch researchers were still materially entangled with these interviews through the physical presence of camera rigs, microphones, digital optics and sound to required to technically facilitate such presence.		Though absent in body, the BearWatch researchers were still materially entangled with these interviews through the physical presence of camera rigs, microphones, digital optics and sound to required to technically facilitate such presence.

	This creates a paradox: while technology enables ~~inclusion~~ across distances, it also reconfigures intimacy~~, replacing embodied presence with fragmented, mediated engagements~~.		This creates a paradox: while technology enables co-presence across distances, it also reconfigures intimacy.

	The very materiality of cameras and screens imposed an external logic onto the interviews. The remote gaze doesn't merely observe, it conditions the unfolding of the interview, ~~shifting~~ power, affect, and ways of knowing in ways that were not reflected on before the conducting of the interviews.		The very materiality of cameras and screens imposed an external logic onto the interviews. The remote gaze doesn't merely observe, it conditions the unfolding of the interview, shifts power, affect, and ways of knowing in ways that were not reflected on before the conducting of the interviews.


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	'''"Detour"''' to Cut 2 to trace ~~another way~~ of ~~engaging with optic technologies like camera and recording~~.		'''"Detour"''' to Cut 2 to trace the ways in which camera equipment provided different terms of engagement in other parts of the research project.


	Or,		Or,

Saskia at 10:12, 1 March 2025

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	~~Participating~~ is about ~~being present~~.		Participation is about co-presence.

			such co-presence during the TEK interviews, however, materialized unevenly across locations.

	~~However there are different ways~~ to ~~be present. And theses differences are a matter of how we matter~~.		Though absent in body, the BearWatch researchers were still materially entangled with these interviews through the physical presence of camera rigs, microphones, digital optics and sound to required to technically facilitate such presence.

	~~Our technical possibilities are art of this equation~~. ~~They make our presence~~		This creates a paradox: while technology enables inclusion across distances, it also reconfigures intimacy, replacing embodied presence with fragmented, mediated engagements.

	~~A mounted phone, a large table-stand microphone~~ and ~~two go-pro cameras~~, ~~of which one mounted on a structure that was built over~~ the ~~dining table to film the mapping exercise that was part~~ of the interview, were ~~required to respectively live-stream~~ the ~~go-pro recording, a conference call and to also record high-quality audio~~.		The very materiality of cameras and screens imposed an external logic onto the interviews. The remote gaze doesn't merely observe, it conditions the unfolding of the interview, shifting power, affect, and ways of knowing in ways that were not reflected on before the conducting of the interviews.

	Other materials required for these interviews included a large paper map of Southampton Island, an acetate sheet and waterproof markers in front of the interviewee, and a piece of paper to mark specific timestamps in front of the interviewer.

	~~This was in addition to another phone mounted on a tripod elsewhere in the room to record an offline version of the interview- and of course, the masks, handsanitizers, and informed consent sheets.~~

	~~[[File:Distanced observer.png\|thumb\|The material wreckage required to facilitate detached observers.]]~~




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Saskia at 17:43, 13 February 2025

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	Participating is about being present.		Participating is about being present.

	The stark contrast between a packing list of 20 items, to facilitate the participatory presence of Southern researchers, seemingly required to conduct these TEK interviews- and the continuation of the interview with one cup of tea, one recording device, and no Southern participation- begs the question of how all those bodies matter, and whether they matter at all.

	However there are different ways to be present. And theses differences are a matter of how we matter.		However there are different ways to be present. And theses differences are a matter of how we matter.

Saskia at 17:42, 13 February 2025

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	Participating is about being present.		Participating is about being present.

			The stark contrast between a packing list of 20 items, to facilitate the participatory presence of Southern researchers, seemingly required to conduct these TEK interviews- and the continuation of the interview with one cup of tea, one recording device, and no Southern participation- begs the question of how all those bodies matter, and whether they matter at all.

	However there are different ways to be present. And theses differences are a matter of how we matter.		However there are different ways to be present. And theses differences are a matter of how we matter.

Saskia at 17:30, 13 February 2025

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			Participating is about being present.

			However there are different ways to be present. And theses differences are a matter of how we matter.

			Our technical possibilities are art of this equation. They make our presence

	A mounted phone, a large table-stand microphone and two go-pro cameras, of which one mounted on a structure that was built over the dining table to film the mapping exercise that was part of the interview, were required to respectively live-stream the go-pro recording, a conference call and to also record high-quality audio.		A mounted phone, a large table-stand microphone and two go-pro cameras, of which one mounted on a structure that was built over the dining table to film the mapping exercise that was part of the interview, were required to respectively live-stream the go-pro recording, a conference call and to also record high-quality audio.

Saskia at 16:15, 13 February 2025

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	'''"Return"''' to Cut 3 to pick up the thread after Covid-19 restrictions were lifted.</div>		'''"Return"''' to Cut 3 to pick up the thread after Covid-19 restrictions were lifted.</div>

			<span class="detour to-cut-2 link" data-page-title="Aesthetic_Action" data-section-id="9" data-encounter-type="detour">[[Point of Beginning Animated Graphic Documentary\|Detour to Cut 2: Aesthetic Action]]</span>

	<span class="return to-cut-3 link" data-page-title="Wayfaring_the_BW_project" data-section-id="5" data-encounter-type="return">[[Wayfaring the BW project#Fieldtrip BW Team Coral Harbour Summer 2021\|Return to Cut 3: Wayfaring the BW project]]</span>		<span class="return to-cut-3 link" data-page-title="Wayfaring_the_BW_project" data-section-id="5" data-encounter-type="return">[[Wayfaring the BW project#Fieldtrip BW Team Coral Harbour Summer 2021\|Return to Cut 3: Wayfaring the BW project]]</span>

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	~~Continue~~ with Cut 3 to pick up the thread after Covid-19 restrictions were lifted.</div>		'''"Detour"''' to Cut 2 to trace another way of engaging with optic technologies like camera and recording.


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			'''"Return"''' to Cut 3 to pick up the thread after Covid-19 restrictions were lifted.</div>


	<span class="return to-cut-3 link" data-page-title="Wayfaring_the_BW_project" data-section-id="5" data-encounter-type="return">[[Wayfaring the BW project#Fieldtrip BW Team Coral Harbour Summer 2021\|Return to Cut 3: Wayfaring the BW project]]</span>		<span class="return to-cut-3 link" data-page-title="Wayfaring_the_BW_project" data-section-id="5" data-encounter-type="return">[[Wayfaring the BW project#Fieldtrip BW Team Coral Harbour Summer 2021\|Return to Cut 3: Wayfaring the BW project]]</span>

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A mounted phone, a large table-stand microphone and two go-pro cameras, of which one mounted on a structure that was built over the dining table to film the mapping exercise that was part of the interview, were required to respectively live-stream the go-pro recording, a conference call and to also record high-quality audio.

Other materials required for these interviews included a large paper map of Southampton Island, an acetate sheet and waterproof markers in front of the interviewee, and a piece of paper to mark specific timestamps in front of the interviewer.

This was in addition to another phone mounted on a tripod elsewhere in the room to record an offline version of the interview- and of course, the masks, handsanitizers, and informed consent sheets.

[[File:Distanced observer.png|thumb|The material wreckage required to facilitate detached observers.]]

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Continue with Cut 3 to pick up the thread after Covid-19 restrictions were lifted.</div>

<span class="return to-cut-3 link" data-page-title="Wayfaring_the_BW_project" data-section-id="5" data-encounter-type="return">[[Wayfaring the BW project#Fieldtrip BW Team Coral Harbour Summer 2021|Return to Cut 3: Wayfaring the BW project]]</span>