Keywords - Noise, Scanning, Heritage, Aesthetics
Human beings, their ideas, their art, their architecture, their technology, and their social forms of organisations are all systems wherein noise and chaos resolve to some kind of order. These chaotic systems are all dynamic, their spatiotemporal dimensions relative, with some assuming ‘permanence’ while others demonstrate transitoriness. In reality all are in motion, each relative to the other. A critical understanding of this dynamism affords new understandings of our relationship to the material world and to history.
All systems are driven by a ‘compression’ algorithm (are art and philosophy immune to systematic processing? We would suggest not. But they are processes of a different order in that they set out from a primary position of assemblage.)
Addressing contemporary debates in relation to the speculative turn, the interdisciplinary work of Captivate Spatial Modelling Research Group enables new modes of engagement with sites and objects of historical significance to be developed and tested.
General Themes we think about:
· Making the Familiar Unfamiliar
· Noise and Periphery in Architecture
· New forms of engagement (attracting new audiences) with time and space, with objects and with historical narratives
· The entanglement of mediated fragments/objects across non-linear time
· The importance of sound, as mediated phenomenon as well as an organising principle
· Community engagement through audiovisual articulation
Scanning/spatial/sonic modelling operates within a critical framework that embraces digital aesthetics/ontology and the spatiotemporal weave of ‘permanence’ and transitoriness. Captivate critically engage with ‘heritage assets’, their designation as significant, and processes of perception that can facilitate their being experienced in new and enhanced ways.
The aim is not to simply digitize, but to deploy digital tools and methodologies to inform and enable new approaches to heritage (and in the process raise issues relating to human/post human subject/object and perception/conception). In tracking the emergence of order, meaning, and what is important, from dynamic systems of perception, filtering and representation, the organic system, the technical system, and the political system, entwine.
A critical journey explores the ways in which human interaction with the material world is reframed and re-articulated within the context of contemporary developments in science and technology.
The reanimation or enlivening of cultural assets (statues) – opens a new mode of experiencing that embraces contemporary philosophical debates in the service of greater and more equitable participation…
A.N Whitehead, (The Concept of Nature), 1920
M. Serres, (The Origin of Language: Biology, Information Theory, & Thermodynamic), 1982
J. Ranciere, (The Politics of Aesthetics), 2006
S. Kennedy, (Future Sounds: The Temporality of Noise), 2018
Stephen, Kennedy, Professor, Research Professor, University of Greenwich - https://www.gre.ac.uk/people/rep/las/steve-kennedy
SImon, WIthers, Mr, Senior Lecturer, University of Greenwich - https://blogs.gre.ac.uk/captivate/sample-page/
"This presentation demonstrates the interdisciplinary work of the Captivate Heritage Laboratory (University of Greenwich). Operating within a critical framework the work embraces digital aesthetics/ontology and the spatiotemporal weave of ‘permanence’ and transitoriness as it engages with sites and objects of historical significance. Human beings, their ideas, their art, their architecture, their technology, and their social forms of organisation are all systems wherein noise and chaos resolve to some kind of order. These chaotic systems are dynamic, and their spatiotemporal dimensions relative. A critical understanding of this dynamism affords new understandings of our relationship to the material world and to history."