Litvintseva, Sasha and Wagner, Beny. 2022. 'Materialities of Measure'. In: Dis/Entangling Perspectives in Material Research Lecture Series. Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany 3 January 2022. [Conference or Workshop Item]

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In our talk, we expand on the research behind our new film Constant (2022), which came out of our question: what happened when measurement standards shifted away from the human body as the measure of all things and became a science unto itself: metrology. We explore three moments in the history of measurement standardization: Early Modern land surveying, the Metric Revolution, and contemporary Big Science. Each of these periods reconfigured measurement standards through shifts in conceptions of materiality: from land and body to the planetary, to the physical constitution of matter. In each of these configurations, measurement mediates concepts of egalitarianism, justice, and the ever-shifting threshold between the human body and the world. In the talk, we will address these themes through the prism of the film and the processes that led to its production.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Lecture)
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Art
Dates:	Date Event 3 January 2022 Completed
Event Location:	Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
Date range:	3 January 2022
Item ID:	35960
Date Deposited:	17 Apr 2024 08:24
Last Modified:	17 Apr 2024 08:24
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/35960

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