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<p>Open Humanities Press is pleased to announce the publication of
two new open access books:</p>
<p><i>Geological Filmmaking</i> by Sasha Litvintseva: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/geological-filmmaking/">http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/geological-filmmaking/</a><br>
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<p><i>Volumetric Regimes: Material Cultures of Quantified Presence</i>,
edited by Jara Rocha and Femke Snelting: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/volumetric-regimes/">http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/volumetric-regimes/</a><br>
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<p><i>Geological Filmmaking</i> by Sasha Litvintseva: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/geological-filmmaking/">http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/geological-filmmaking/</a></p>
<p>Every film image is geological. As a technical medium derived
from the metals and minerals extracted from the earth, every
moving image is materially embedded in the world it records. It is
also temporally linked to the almost inconceivably vast deep time
of the planet’s formation. What would it mean to make films in
response to this situation? <em>Geological Filmmaking</em> argues
that the challenge lies in situating oneself in the space between
the concrete object of a film and the broader planetary conditions
of its existence. The nuances of this position are at once formal,
ethical and political. Sasha Litvintseva discusses her process of
developing such a film practice as a way of tackling the
perceptual and aesthetic difficulties presented by ongoing
ecological crises. These concerns are explored through the prism
of the author’s own films about asbestos and sinkholes in their
respective economic and colonial contexts.</p>
<p><em>Geological Filmmaking</em> develops a new genre of writing
rooted in a reciprocity between the practice of making films and
the theoretical study of the relations they participate in.
Litvintseva expands current conversations in the environmental
humanities through building on the rich legacy of experimental
film as a tool for producing alternative modes of experiencing the
world. The book is intended for readers from a broad range of
backgrounds, looking for new ways of dealing with questions about
the life and death of our planet.</p>
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<p><em>Geological Filmmaking</em> is published in our MEDIA : ART
: WRITE : NOW series, edited by Joanna Zylinska: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/series/media-art-write-now/">http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/series/media-art-write-now/</a><br>
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<p>Author Bio <br>
</p>
<p>Sasha Litvintseva is an artist, filmmaker, writer and senior
lecturer in Film at Queen Mary University of London. Her work is
situated at the intersection of media, ecology and the history
of science. Her films have been exhibited worldwide, including
at the Berlinale and Rotterdam film festivals, Baltic Triennial
and Venice Architecture Biennale. She is the author, with Beny
Wagner, of <i>All Thoughts Fly: Monster, Taxonomy, Film</i>
(Sonic Acts Press, 2021). For more information on her work
consult her webpage <a href="http://sashalitvintseva.com"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://sashalitvintseva.com</a></p>
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<p><i>Volumetric Regimes: Material Cultures of Quantified Presence</i>,
edited by Jara Rocha and Femke Snelting: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/volumetric-regimes/">http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/volumetric-regimes/</a></p>
<p>3D computation has historically co-evolved with Modern
technosciences, and aligned with the regimes of optimisation,
normalisation and hegemonic world order. The legacies and
projections of industrial development leave traces of that
imaginary and tell the stories of a lively tension between “the
probable” and “the possible”. Defined as the techniques for
measuring volumes, volumetrics all too easily (re)produce and
accentuate the probable, and this process is intensified within
the technocratic realm of contemporary hyper-computation. The
ubiquity of efficient operations is deeply damaging in the way it
gradually depletes the world of all possibility for engagement,
interporousness and lively potential. Volumetric Regimes: material
cultures of quantified presence proposes an urgent intersectional
inquiry into volumetrics to foreground procedural, theoretical and
infrastructural practices that provide with a widening of the
possible.<br>
<br>
<i>Volumetric Regimes</i> emerges from Possible Bodies, a
collaborative research activated by Jara Rocha and Femke Snelting
on the very concrete and at the same time complex and fictional
entities that “bodies” are, asking what matter-cultural conditions
of possibility render them present. This becomes especially urgent
in relation to technologies, infrastructures and techniques of 3D
tracking, modelling and scanning. How does cyborg-ness participate
in the presentation and representation of so-called bodies?
Intersecting issues of race, gender, class, species, age and
ability resurface through these performative as well as
representational practices.</p>
<p><i>Volumetric Regimes: Material Cultures of Quantified Presence </i>is
published in our DATA Browser series, which is edited by Geoff Cox
and Joasia Krysa: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/series/data-browser/">http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/series/data-browser/</a><br>
</p>
<p>Editor Bios<br>
<br>
Jara Rocha is an interdependent researcher-artist. They are
currently involved in several disobedient action research
projects, such as Volumetric Regimes (with Femke Snelting), The
Underground Division (with Helen Pritchard and Femke Snelting),
The Relearning Series (with Martino Morandi), and Vibes &
Leaks (with Kym Ward and Xavier Gorgol). They are part of the
curatorial teams of DONE at Foto Colectania, of ISEA at Arts Santa
Mònica and of La Capella, all in Barcelona; Jara also teaches
screen studies at the Escola Superior de Cinema i Audiovisuals de
Catalunya, as well as at the Körper, Theorie und Poetik des
Performativen Department at Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden
Künste, Stuttgart. With Karl Moubarak and Cristina Cochior, they
conform the Cell for Digital Discomfort at the 21/22 Fellowship
for Situated Research of BAK, Utrecht. Jara works through the
situated, mundane, and complex forms of distribution of the
technological with an antifascist and trans*feminist sensibility,
and their show “Naturoculturas son disturbios” emits erratically
from dublab.es radio.<br>
<br>
Femke Snelting develops projects at the intersection of design,
feminisms, and free software in various constellations. With Seda
Gürses, Miriyam Aouragh, and Helen Pritchard, she runs the
Institute for Technology in the Public Interest. With the
Underground Division (Helen Pritchard and Jara Rocha) she studies
the computational imaginations of rock formations, and with Jara
Rocha, Femke activates Possible Bodies. She is team member of
Programmable Infrastructures (TUDelft), i-DAT (University of
Plymouth) and supports artistic research at PhdArts (Leiden),
MERIAN (Maastricht) and a.pass (Brussels). Femke teaches at XPUB
(MA Experimental Publishing, Rotterdam).<br>
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Gary Hall
Professor of Media
Director of the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/postdigital-cultures">http://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/postdigital-cultures</a>
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