Image courtesy of Ren Loren Britton
Activity
Thursday October 17, 2024
Study of Presence with Ren Loren Britton (workshop). Non-Foreclosed Access Points: pluralizing virtuality
High Latencies
[contra]panorama
Matterport is an online platform utilised by MACBA as a tool to provide remote access to exhibitions through 3D scanning, enabling bipedal ’walking’ through a digital twin of any scanned exhibition.
Built as a tool for travel, renovation and real estate, navigating through an exhibition in this 3D environment produces an experience completely different to any other exhibition at MACBA: foreclosures of movement through the space are limited to what has been scanned and one primary way of understanding the spatial relationships is through measuring distance.
In this presentation and workshop we will examine the troubles of mirroring experiences between ’real life’ and ’online spaces’ that attempt to multiply the possibilities of engaging with any content and attuning to the differences of virtual and physical presences. Further, we will consider how to problematise visuality as the primary way of accessing artworks and consider what a non-foreclosure of access points could be for promoting remote access to exhibitions. This work is informed by a disability justice perspective that honours and creates spaces for non-normative and non-physical engagements with exhibitions. How can we pluralise virtuality towards non-foreclosure? And is this possible with the ever-encroaching solidification of big tech tools?
In the workshop, Ren Loren Britton will give a small 15-minute input considering some of the possibilities, perspectives and problems with remote access as a project. We will then have a diagramming exercise to identify the actors present in the web of relations between (remote) access, virtuality and exhibition making. After a short break, we will experiment with a tactile mapping of these actors as another way to spatially and haptically understand how these actors relate to one another.
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High Latencies organises a series of conversations with members of the museum team, as well as public encounters with special guests. The discussion threads will interweave in a series of diagrams that will be published and updated erratically on the project website (altas-latencias.xyz) and on print-outs that will be displayed in the exhibition space. The diagrams do not offer a complete or definitive view of the conversations; instead, they encourage the creation of speculative associations and (slow, unfinished) understanding of the dense network of relationships and dependences produced by the complex phenomenon of presence.
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Ren Loren Britton
Ren Loren Britton is a trans*disciplinary artist-designer who holds values that reverberate with trans*feminism, technosciences, radical pedagogy and disability justice. Their work practices with loving accountability towards collaboration, accessibility, trans*gender politics and critical technical praxis.
Ren has shared artistic work within multiple institutions including ALT_CPH Biennale (Copenhagen), Transmediale & Haus der Kulturen der Welt & Martin Gropius Bau (Berlin), Constant (Brussels), Sonic Acts (Amsterdam), Kunsthalle Osnabrück (Osnabrück), Het Nieuwe Institute & Varia (Rotterdam) & Rupert (Vilnius). Recent academic articles have been published in Catalyst, MATTER and Digital Creativity and within edited volumes by Bloomsbery Academic, Spektor Books and Barbara Budrich.
Working in collaboration with beloved interlocutors, they action MELT with Iz Paehr and Trans*Presents with Rosen Eveleigh. lorenbritton.com
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Ren has shared artistic work within multiple institutions including ALT_CPH Biennale (Copenhagen), Transmediale & Haus der Kulturen der Welt & Martin Gropius Bau (Berlin), Constant (Brussels), Sonic Acts (Amsterdam), Kunsthalle Osnabrück (Osnabrück), Het Nieuwe Institute & Varia (Rotterdam) & Rupert (Vilnius). Recent academic articles have been published in Catalyst, MATTER and Digital Creativity and within edited volumes by Bloomsbery Academic, Spektor Books and Barbara Budrich.
Working in collaboration with beloved interlocutors, they action MELT with Iz Paehr and Trans*Presents with Rosen Eveleigh. lorenbritton.com
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![[contra]panorama](https://img.macba.cat/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/contrapanorama_iweb.jpg)
In 2021, MACBA launched the triennial Panorama, which aimed to “deepen its collaboration and dialogue with local artists and cultural agents”. [contra]panorama, the second edition of Panorama retains the same aim but works towards it through a year-long series of interventions that take the project’s title literally, in order to question both the continuing relevance of the triennial (or biennial) format and its capacity to offer a panoramic image of the present.
