11 How to Do Things with Grids: Anarchitectures of Navigability
Abstract
This essay draws on polyphonic resources to elicit the profoundly ambivalent equivocalities of the grid complex. The author takes her cue from Gordon Matta- Clark’s urban architectural interventions (“social sculpture”), whose practices at the boundaries of architecture and contemporary art radicalize habits of doing and undoing grid spaces. Pivoting from cities to seas, Nielsen re-sets today’s grid dispensations to the cartographic returns of more fluid yet no less built social spaces. Linking the disavowals of debilitation (Jasbir Puar) with sprawling geographies of systemic brutalisme (Achille Mbembe), Nielsen discusses Forensic Architecture’s multidisciplinary digital forensics research that also takes the grid back to the seas, with Forensic Oceanography. As triptych, Nielsen’s analysis turns attention to the force and parry of the grid’s essentially kinetic pact, and to the futures of “social sculpture”, floating theories of infrastructure, movement, and migration. The theater for this essay is the Western Mediterranean.
Abstract
This essay draws on polyphonic resources to elicit the profoundly ambivalent equivocalities of the grid complex. The author takes her cue from Gordon Matta- Clark’s urban architectural interventions (“social sculpture”), whose practices at the boundaries of architecture and contemporary art radicalize habits of doing and undoing grid spaces. Pivoting from cities to seas, Nielsen re-sets today’s grid dispensations to the cartographic returns of more fluid yet no less built social spaces. Linking the disavowals of debilitation (Jasbir Puar) with sprawling geographies of systemic brutalisme (Achille Mbembe), Nielsen discusses Forensic Architecture’s multidisciplinary digital forensics research that also takes the grid back to the seas, with Forensic Oceanography. As triptych, Nielsen’s analysis turns attention to the force and parry of the grid’s essentially kinetic pact, and to the futures of “social sculpture”, floating theories of infrastructure, movement, and migration. The theater for this essay is the Western Mediterranean.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Content V
- List of Illustrations VII
- Foreword: On Grids and Networks XI
- Acknowledgements XV
- 1 Introduction ‒ The Arts of the Grid: Interdisciplinary Insights on Gridded Modalities in Conversation with the Arts 1
- 2 The Networked Artwork: The Grid as Dynamic Relational Form? 22
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Part I: Planting and Planning the Grid
- 3 The Grid Specialized: Practical Town Planning, Artistic Features, and Natural Settings in Twentieth-Century Brazilian New Towns 39
- 4 Centrifugal or Processional: Divine and Mundane Power in Ancient Chinese Funeral Grids 54
- 5 Globalizing Senegal’s Grid-Plan Legacies in Light of Islamic Studies, World History and Urban Studies 70
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Part II: Generating Grids of Computational Arts
- 6 Between Technological and Aesthetic Grids: Philosophical Challenges Posed by AI Artists 83
- 7 Sounds in Grid: History and Development of Grid-Based Musical Interfaces and their Rooting in Sound, Interaction and Screen Design 97
- 8 On Grids of Contemporary Art Production: A Convergence of Artistic, Computational, Craft and Performative Making 109
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Part III: Kinetic Grids: Bridging, Digging, Floating
- 9 Searching for the Grid at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century: When Art and Science Shared their Fragments 127
- 10 Depth as Grid: An Improvisational Actor’s Perspective 143
- 11 How to Do Things with Grids: Anarchitectures of Navigability 157
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Part IV: Grids of Learning: Linguistic, Virtual, Visual
- 12 The Linguistics Relation in the Virtual Grid: A Digital Dialogue 177
- 13 Storytelling in Virtual Reality: A Multidisciplinary and Immersive Experience using Grid Methodology for Students 193
- 14 The Multidisciplinary Learning Grid: A Conceptual Space to Develop Neuropedagogy-based, Arts-integrated Chemistry Activities 204
- 15 Concluding Remarks: Grids of Light, Darkness, and Intermediate Shades 225
- About the Contributors 232
- About the Participant Artists 238
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Content V
- List of Illustrations VII
- Foreword: On Grids and Networks XI
- Acknowledgements XV
- 1 Introduction ‒ The Arts of the Grid: Interdisciplinary Insights on Gridded Modalities in Conversation with the Arts 1
- 2 The Networked Artwork: The Grid as Dynamic Relational Form? 22
-
Part I: Planting and Planning the Grid
- 3 The Grid Specialized: Practical Town Planning, Artistic Features, and Natural Settings in Twentieth-Century Brazilian New Towns 39
- 4 Centrifugal or Processional: Divine and Mundane Power in Ancient Chinese Funeral Grids 54
- 5 Globalizing Senegal’s Grid-Plan Legacies in Light of Islamic Studies, World History and Urban Studies 70
-
Part II: Generating Grids of Computational Arts
- 6 Between Technological and Aesthetic Grids: Philosophical Challenges Posed by AI Artists 83
- 7 Sounds in Grid: History and Development of Grid-Based Musical Interfaces and their Rooting in Sound, Interaction and Screen Design 97
- 8 On Grids of Contemporary Art Production: A Convergence of Artistic, Computational, Craft and Performative Making 109
-
Part III: Kinetic Grids: Bridging, Digging, Floating
- 9 Searching for the Grid at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century: When Art and Science Shared their Fragments 127
- 10 Depth as Grid: An Improvisational Actor’s Perspective 143
- 11 How to Do Things with Grids: Anarchitectures of Navigability 157
-
Part IV: Grids of Learning: Linguistic, Virtual, Visual
- 12 The Linguistics Relation in the Virtual Grid: A Digital Dialogue 177
- 13 Storytelling in Virtual Reality: A Multidisciplinary and Immersive Experience using Grid Methodology for Students 193
- 14 The Multidisciplinary Learning Grid: A Conceptual Space to Develop Neuropedagogy-based, Arts-integrated Chemistry Activities 204
- 15 Concluding Remarks: Grids of Light, Darkness, and Intermediate Shades 225
- About the Contributors 232
- About the Participant Artists 238
