lidar visioning

2019 research project, supervised by Arthur Wrigglesworth and Scott Sørli.

summary/ Exploring particle-visions that mimic lidar technology to analyze the space of one of the 2018-2019 Venice Biennale Exhibits, the video questions conventional boundaries and contaminations between the human, technology and architectural bodies in the space. As the human bodies move and as the camera sifts, what is read as single objects versus composite objects changes. The project is inspired by Elizabeth Grosz’s understanding of architecture as multiplicitous spatial process negotiated between bodies and space over time; Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s understandings of bodies as shifting; and Michael Weinstock’s concept of emergence a form of bottom-up change which expands on the systems thinking that has been developed in the life sciences.

In questioning degrees of singularity versus connectivity, the video challenges ideas of self and other; individual versus group thinking; and presumptions as to the cultural stability of any perspective over time.