Optic Matters: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 10:29, 1 March 2025

Participation is about co-presence.

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.

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, shifts power, affect, and ways of knowing in ways that were not reflected on before the conducting of the interviews.

"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,

"Return" to Cut 3 to pick up the thread after Covid-19 restrictions were lifted.

Detour to Cut 2: Aesthetic Action

Return to Cut 3: Wayfaring the BW project

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 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.
-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,