“As a body in motion, the writing-and-written body puts into motion the bodies of all those who would observe it. It demands a scholarship that detects and records movements of the writer as well as the written about, and it places at the center of investigation the changing positions of these two groups of bodies and the co-motion that orchestrates as it differentiates their identities. This ambulant form of scholarship thus acknowledges an object of study that is always in the making and also always vanishing. It claims for the body, in anxious anticipation of this decade’s collapse of the real and the simulated into a global “informatics of domination,” an intense physicality and a reflexive generativity.” (Foster 16)

What are the patterns that we remember? Why do we return to them in moments of making? Of vanishing?

( r e p e a t / / R  E : P E A T )
( r e i n s c r i b e / / R E : I N S C R I B E  )
( r e p r e s e n t / / R E : P R E S E N T )

In performing an either expected or unexpected act of failure, how do we observe a separation of self? Between mind and body, the internal and external, movement and stillness?

Where are we left in the (sea)rch of re:flection?

At the edge of a shadow?
Or directly in the shadow’s darkness?

During week five’s CST lab I observed 3D printing//scanning of the body. I watched as student J scanned student L. I watched as student L stood in front of me, and then again as student L appeared on the screen in student J’s hand… as a green mass, in stillness, repeating… a reflection. I imagined then the possibility of reinscribing the body through the process of 3D printing. What would it mean to take the body outside of its “natural” setting and “perceived” world? How would it effect our sense of boundaries, between where I stop and student L begins? Between where student L stops and the scanner begins? Between where student L stops and the re:plicated object begins?

How is this “shaping of the body” parallel to the expression of the technology itself? What do we do with our knowledge of this parallel? When physically turning ourselves into objects (to later be manipulated, transformed, misinterpreted, held in the palm of a hand) what can we do to maintain a sense of self and safety?

http://www.raspberrypi.org/pi-3d-scanner-a-diy-body-scanner/

http://www.cyberfx.com/3d_laser_scanning.htm