Archive / DVC 3
Models, volume, 3D: the record.
Clancy Wilmott's keynote and a day of talks on volumetric visual technologies, with the full video and links to the programme and Twitter history.
The third digital | visual | cultural event took place on 17 and 18 June 2019 at St John's College, Oxford, with the support of the College and the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford. It was curated by Sterling Mackinnon and Gillian Rose.
It began with a lecture by Dr Clancy Wilmott, a Vice Chancellor's Research Fellow in the Department of Media and Communication at RMIT in Melbourne. The title of her lecture was Point clouds, pixels and perspective: encountering three dimensional visual technologies between mathematics and culture.
Watch the keynote
The full video of Clancy Wilmott's lecture is available on YouTube.
What the event asked
Clancy Wilmott spoke directly to the theme of the meeting: the proliferation of three dimensional visual technologies in a digital age. From virtual and augmented reality to 3D scanners and printers, they can be found across design, engineering, construction, medicine, architecture, art and beyond, as their volumetric capabilities can be used to map and reproduce complex space.
Drawing on a series of experimental digital 3D projects, as well as histories of analogue cartography and surveying, her talk explored the interaction between the mathematical view of space, including point clouds, z axes and LiDAR, and broader cultural and political questions of being in and working through volumetric representations and their relationship to material spaces and cultures.
Asking what the political and theoretical implications of visualising in three dimensions might be, the discussion turned to two fundamental questions about the way we understand digitalities and visualities between science and culture: what are the limits of three dimensional visual technologies, and where might the political possibilities lie in the act of three dimensional visualisation?
The talks
The lecture was followed by a range of talks exploring various uses of 3D visualising technologies in relation to different objects and professional contexts. The programme included contributions from Robert Shaw, Sterling Mackinnon, Helen Pritchard, Sam Hind, Dominic Nicholls, Alexander Shenkin, Alice Ladenburg, Linnea Saltin, PixelBeans and the Glasgow School of Art SimVis project.
The full programme is preserved on the June 2019 event page, and the sequence of the day is recorded in the Twitter history. The event was programmed in concert with Thinking 3D.