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“Sensing, measuring, mapping, recording and algorithmic extraction and derivation—all of science and technology circles back to these constitutive products of the disciplinary space. We can identify all as features of the scene, going back to the originary ritual scene itself—a scene is designed so respond to movements, position movements in relation to each other, provide various standpoints from which the scene can be surveyed, serve as recipient of deposits and residues left by actions on the scene, and shape the activity of participants. To design a scene is to enhance those features, to place them in cybernetic exchanges with each other. Scenic design, extracting and deriving from the scene, is the event. When you work on the elements of the scene, you need to find out what they can do, and some of the things they do become leverage for establishing new scenes: this is the reciprocal convertibility of furnishings and scenes. A telescope developed to scope out the enemy becomes the lever of a new scene once it is pointed toward the stars; or vice versa—I don’t know the history of developments here. It is this convertibility that the transfer idiom targets, and it is a convertibility that operates at all scales, from the planetary to the molecular—on a disciplinary scene, anything can become a scene within the scene.”

— Adam Katz, Programming · Mar 13, 2023 · Bouvard Substack