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30.12.24

Canal Connect 2024 - Mesa redonda 4: Cuerpos mutantes

Ponentes: Manel de Aguas, Jara Rocha, Teresa López-Pellisa
Moderadora: Ana Campillos Sánchez

+ info: https://www.teatroscanal.com/espectaculo/mesas-redondas-canal-connect2024/ 

(fue el pasado 10 de mayo, pero han publicado recientemente el registro del evento:)



17.2.23

[expo colectiva] El meu cos coneix cants inaudits...

x, y, z (Possible Bodies, 2023)

La computació 3D ha evolucionat històricament amb una tecnologia i una ciència d'arrel patriarcal i colonial. D'aquesta manera, aquesta tècnica s'ha alineat amb el règim econòmic hegemònic i les seves pràctiques d'optimització, normalització, taxonomització, propietat i ordre mundial.

Els llegats del desenvolupament industrial comercial deixen rastre d'aquell imaginari i expliquen les històries d'una viva tensió entre "el probable" i "el possible". La volumetria, es defineix com un conjunt de tècniques de producció de volums mitjançant la mesura de la matèria (somàtica, ambiental); la volumetria digital fa el seguiment, captura, modelatge i escaneig en 3D. El seu valor rau en (re)produir i accentuar amb massa facilitat mons probables, i aquest procés encara s'intensifica més dins la hipercomputació contemporània. 'x, y, z: Volumetric Regimes' consta de tres fotogrames d'una pel·lícula que sempre està en procés.

Aquesta pel·lícula que potser no es farà mai, demana angles desobedients que poden anar més enllà de la rigidesa de les tecno-ecologies de la volumetria digital. És un intent trans*feminista de pensar a partir de l'agència de certs artefactes culturals, amb l'esperança d'ampliar les seves possibilitats més enllà de les maneres de fer i de ser predissenyades.

 


Bòlit, Girona, Del 10 de febrer al 30 d’abril de 2023

"Aquesta exposició i les activitats que l'acompanyen és una recerca col·lectiva sobre qüestions culturals vinculades amb la identitat i el gènere a partir d'un treball sobre el cos i l'anormalitat, és a dir, sobre aquelles "alteritats radicals" que qüestionen les normes, les figuracions i el que s'espera d'un cos."

+ info de la expo y sus activaciones: https://web.girona.cat/bolit/exposicions/2023/cantsinauditsdelcos 

30.1.23

[panel] Sublime Depths | transmediale 2023

With Femke Snelting, Georgina Voss, Irene Fubara-Manuel, Jara Rocha

Moderated by Romi Ron Morrison

 


02.02.2023 17:30  Akademie der Künste / Hanseatenweg / Club Room

Volumetric technologies are increasingly sought after commodities in a wide range of contexts from entertainment to city planning to military surveillance. Rendering a reality of their own, instead of the one's captured, volumetric technologies reflect a nested regime of representations, truths, and ideologies, producing an affective computational sublime. Hidden inside glossy renders and visual effects, these representations proliferate explicit politics, taking up space, volume and depth, minimising difference and the modes of representation.

In this conversation, Femke Snelting, Georgina Voss, Irene Fubara-Manuel, and Jara Rocha, with moderator Romi Ron Morrison, discuss the problems and promises of volumetric technologies and their seamless movement between entertainment, shopping, ikea catalogues, smart borders, and wildlife preservation. Unpacking the affects of the computational sublime, their conversation aims to bring bodies and data points and spaces back into relation with each other.


 

+ info: https://2023.transmediale.de/en/event/sublime-depths

 

8.12.22

So-called plants at Critical Media Lab, Basel


Tuesday, December 13, 2022

For this presentation, several “computational ecologies of practice” were selected to “feel the borders” of how so-called plants are being made present. The figure of “so-called plants” problematizes the limitations of the ontological category of “plant”, and the isolation it implies. So-called plants questions the various methods that biology, computer science, 3D-modeling or border management put to work to create finite, specified and discrete entities which represent the characteristics of whole species, erasing the nuances of very particular beings.

+ info and all-week programme: https://criticalmedialab.ch/book-launch-volumetric-regimes/


27.10.22

Performative lecture @ Any / One Day the Future Has Died. Impossible Possibilities of Artificial Intelligence

"In the age of Artificial Intelligence, on any given day, at some point most definitely, the Future has died.

The Future, with capital F, seems to be perfectly synchronized, in line and aligned with the global mode of technological production. In this kind of Future in a hyper networked and digitized society, we witness new modes of extraction, monopolizations, surveillance; new types of environmental harm and damages as well as new codes of discriminations and exclusions which bring more climate change-induced provincialization, more competition and individualism. Not only does this model of Future not provide enough space for the many(-folded), its pretension lies in the misreading of the concept itself. Because in contrast to its usual connotation, the Future does not necessarily and always indicate a tomorrow or far away. But, as Michelle M. Wright and Rasheedah Phillips brilliantly show in their works, it is about a radical re-thinking of time and experiencing of temporalities that gives way to a broader and better understanding of stories, past and present, of todays, of tomorrows, of in-betweens (Fred Moten).

futures – without capital F and in their plural form – always also happen now.

With the Impossible Possibilities we think AI with Kara Keeling. We are concerned with the presence of AI, with what goes beyond its expression and produces a surplus that cannot be seen or understood, but is nevertheless present: "Whatever escapes recognition, whatever escapes meaning and valuation, exists as an impossible possibility within our shared reality, however one describes that reality, and therefore threatens to unsettle, if not destroy, the common sense on which that reality relies for its coherence." (2019: 83). What is impossible to recognize is the possibility of AI. For what defies re-cognition exists in a world that is real but not fed into the normative discourse of AI as predictive computation. With this conference, we turn our attention to paradox as a condition of existence that has the potential to shake the common sense of AI.

Impossible Possibilities does not stand for exposing the binary in the conundrum but stands for an invitation for exploring such a  paradox productively."

Full programme and info: https://www.hgb-leipzig.de/hochschule/kalender/1518

Preliminary program (Register: any_one@hgb-leipzig.de).

Please keep Crashing (Workshop Documentation)

With students of Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig
Organized by the Academy for Transcultural Exchange (AtA), facilitated by Anja Kaiser and Melina Weissenborn

[our panel:]

Sedimented Temporalities of Geodigital Landscapes (Panel)
With The Underground Division (Jara Rocha and Femke Snelting) and Orit Halpern
Moderation: Katrin Köppert

4.10.22

Booklaunch | Volumetric Regimes: Material Cultures of Quantified Presence

"Volumetric Regimes makes an essential contribution to the ways in which we must rethink matter politically and ecologically. As the book unfolds, ontological questions of intensities, dimensions, and substance are denaturalised as mere properties of matter that can be measured, modified, and thus computed, which today are exemplified by 3D modelling and parametric design, but are shown to be part of processional life-worlds that relational and mutually informed and informing. Not the partitioning of bodies, particles, datapoints, and spaces as techno-capital and techno-science would have it but a material enmeshment that brings the volumetric into presence otherwise." Susan Schuppli

This radical multi-form collective investigation traces the cutting edge of how bodies and subjects are rendered technologically. It proposes multi-dimensional forms of intervention, and claims an experimental horizon of the possible, shattering the mantra of unavoidability.” — Olga Goriunova

 

To download the pdf and/or order a paper copy on-line: 

http://data-browser.net/db08.html

http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/volumetric-regimes/ 

Six years of trans*feminist disobedient action-research on 3D technologies, paradigms and procedures culminated in Volumetric Regimes: Material Cultures of Quantified Presence (Open Humanities Press 2022, DATA-browser series, eds. Geoff Cox and Joasia Krysa). Compiled by Possible Bodies (Femke Snelting and Jara Rocha), the publication brings together diverse materials on the political, aesthetic, computational and relational regimes in which volumes are calculated. The book foregrounds technological practices that invite widenings of what is possible. With contributions by Sophie Boiron, Maria Dada, Pierre Huyghebaert, Phil Langley, Nicolas Malevé, Romi Ron Morrison, Simone C. Niquille, Helen V. Pritchard, Jara Rocha, Sina Seifee, Femke Snelting and Kym Ward.

Tuesday 4 October 20:00 – 22:00 @ Varia, Rotterdam (NL)
https://varia.zone/booklaunch-volumetric-regimes.html

The event at Varia celebrates the wiki-to-print paper edition designed and developed by Manetta Berends. It is a special moment in an ongoing multi-local launch, made up of playful contributions, informal responses and interactive formats proposed by comrades in the making of technosciences otherwise.

The evening starts with a performative introduction by the editors, followed by an intervention by designer, artist and researcher Alex Zakkas in conversation with Manetta Berends.


Books will be sold at the event at a reduced price.
All materials have also been published on a dedicated wiki: https://volumetricregimes.xyz/

Volumetric Regimes is produced with support from London South Bank University and Liverpool John Moores University.


(pic by Varia https://varia.zone/archive/2022-10-04-Volumetric-Regimes-booklaunch/)



10.4.22

El inventario de Possible Bodies: la des-orientación y sus consecuencias

Traducción y republicación por parte de nmenos1, a invitación de Juan Covelli.


Cada uno a su modo, los ítems están relacionados con un mundo que está deviniendo oblicuo, donde dentro y fuera o arriba y abajo están cambiando posiciones, y donde nuevas perspectivas se hacen disponibles. Hablan de la mutua constitución de cuerpos y tecnologías, materia y semiótica, naturaleza y cultura; y de cómo se gestiona la orientación en las herramientas a través de la matriz tecnológica de la representación.

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Tratamos de experimentar su proceso de “hacer mundo” permaneciendo en la exigencia de “entrar” en el software. Manteniendo un equilibrio entre la comprensión y la confusión, utilizamos la sensación de desorientación creada por los conceptos cambiantes de la palabra “mundo” para medir lo que sucede cuando un término tan vertiginoso se extrae del lenguaje coloquial para ser re-normalizado y re-naturalizado. En el nauseabundo contexto semiótico del modelado de 3D, la palabra “mundo” comienza a funcionar en otro espacio, igualmente real pero abstracto.

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Todo parece demasiado imponente, demasiado normativo en el sentido humanista, incluso demasiado esencialista. ¿Qué composiciones corporales comparten una base horizontal, qué entidades tienen el don de comportarse verticalmente? ¿Cómo afectan otras trayectorias a nuestras condiciones semióticas-materiales de posibilidad y, por lo tanto, a la misma política que los cuerpos co-componen?  

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Puede que sea necesario dejar de lado la necesidad de “suelo” como elemento definidor de la propia existencia del cuerpo, aunque esto nos hace preguntarnos acerca de las agencias que trabajan en esta encarnación sin suelo. Si la tierra es para aquellos que la trabajan, entonces ¿quién trabaja el suelo?

Texto completo: https://www.nmenos1.xyz/public/texto/web

28.3.22

Falling and Floating. A guided tour into Volumetric Regimes feat. GOB GOB


29/03
17:30-20:30 
@Theory Stairs, FedLev Building (Sandberg Instituut)
 
Six years of trans*feminist disobedient action research on 3D technologies, paradigms and procedures are about to be published as “Volumetric Regimes: Material Cultures of Quantified Presence” (Open Humanities Press, DATA-browser series). The book foregrounds technological practices that provide with a widening of the possible and brings together diverse materials on the political, aesthetic and relational regimes in which volumes are calculated. The ongoing multi-local launch of Volumetric Regimes is made up of playful contributions, informal responses and interactive formats proposed by known and unknown comrades in the making of technosciences otherwise. 

The guided tour into Volumetric Regimes: material cultures of quantified presence (Open Humanities Press, 2022) at Sandberg Institute will touch upon 3D image production tools and the possible practice of dissident worlding by axes, planes, dimensions and coordinates. It will be matched with play session and screening feat. works by Ráchel Plutón and Elio J Carranza. 

Optional Reading: 

GOB GOB is an initiative for critical engagement with image production software and game development by Elio J Carranza, Lauren Fong, and Aidan Wall.
 

23.3.22

Rendering Research at ERG (BXL); Book launch feat. Elodie Mugrefya


Possible Bodies (Jara Rocha, Femke Snelting) feat. Elodie Mugrefya will present their upcoming book Volumetric Regimes: Material Cultures of Quantified Presence on Thursday 24th March at 17.30, at ERG (école de recherche graphique), 87 rue du Page – 1050 Bruxelles – as part of the Rendering Research workshop organized by DARC (Aarhus University), CSNI (London South Bank University) and transmediale festival for art and digital culture. All welcome.

The ongoing multi-local launch of Volumetric Regimes is made up of playful contributions, informal responses and interactive formats proposed by known and unknown comrades in the making of technosciences otherwise. For the occasion of Rendering Research we will be joined by Elodie Mugrefya, who we invited to re-interpret, critique, and/or remix materials from Volumetric Regimes through her sensibility for technocolonial knowledge production.
 
Elodie Mugrefya is a member of Constant, Brussels where she takes part in its artistic and collective researches while developing a writing practice that intersects with Constant's themes of interest; notably notions surrounding collectivity, technological infrastructures and socio-political troubles. Constant develops projects across art and technology and operates through its commitment to free/libre open source cultures and intersectional perspectives. https://constantvzw.org/
 
+ info: https://www.centreforthestudyof.net/?p=6230 
+ info on the overarching context of Rendering Research: https://transmediale.de/projects/aarhus-university-london-south-bank-university

16.3.22

Aalto Photo Talks


 

 

Thursday, March 17th 2022 on Zoom from 15:00 - 16:00

Doctoral Seminar - Open to everyone!

Date: 17th March 2022

Time: 15:00 - 16:00


"For the second installation of Aalto Photo Talks, we have invited artist and researcher duo Femke Snelting and Jara Rocha as our guest speaker. In their forthcoming book Volumetric Regimes: material cultures of quantified presence (Open Humanities Press, 2022), authors Jara Rocha and Femke Snelting bring together several years of discussing and working with artists, software developers and theorists who detect, track, print, model and render volumes. During the talk, the duo will read and discuss the chapter “Invasive Imagination and its Agential Cuts”. The authors argue that tomography, a set of digital techniques which has become ubiquitous in the medical imaging field, produces “exclusionary boundaries,” i.e. that they generate outcomes according to pre-established categorizations and norms of the human body. Zooming in on the example of the Open Source “3-D Slicer” software, they show how digital cutting is part of a culture of quantification, and naturalised as a scientifically objective gesture. Rocha and Snelting challenge this dominant imagination of biomedical informatics and mount an “affirmative critique” by proposing technical tweaks and changes, thus opening up the possibility of “oblique, deviating, unfinished and queer cuts.”

https://volumetricregimes.xyz/

https://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org

 

The talk is open to public and we welcome Aalto students from the Department of Media and other disciplines to join us. Please also feel free to invite students from outside of Aalto.

Thank you Yiu Sheung for the invite!

 

 

1.11.21

Conversation at the CSNI, about the Industrial Continuum of 3D

 The Center for the Study of the Networked Image (CSNI) is hosting a conversation about "The Industrial continuum of 3D":

 


Join us on Wednesday 3rd November 2021 at 14.00 (online) for our next research event hosted by Possible Bodies (Jara Rocha, Femke Snelting) in conversation with Martino Morandi.

The industrial continuum of 3D is a sociotechnical figuration and phenomenon that can be observed when volumetric techniques and technologies flow between diverse industries such as biomedical imaging, wild life conservation, border patrolling and Hollywood computer graphics. Its fluency is based on an intricate paradox: the continuum moves smoothly between distinct, different or even mutually exclusive fields of application, but leaves very little space for radical experiments and the resulting combinations are all but surprising. This conversation featuring Martino Morandi is an attempt to show how the consistent contradiction is established, to see the way power gathers around it, to get closer to what drives the circulation of industrial 3D and to describe what settles as a result. What possible techniques, paradigms and procedures for ‘computing otherwise’ can be activated around the representation of space-time, and which other worldings might be imagined?

Volumetric Regimes: material cultures of quantified presence (Open Humanities Press, DATA-browser series) proposes an intersectional inquiry into volumetrics which foregrounds procedural, theoretical and infrastructural practices that provide with a widening of the possible. The publication brings together diverse materials from a rich and ongoing conversation between artists, software developers and theorists on the political, aesthetic and relational regimes in which volumes are calculated. http://volumetricregimes.xyz

Join us online at:
https://bbb.constantvzw.org/b/csn-qck-1ci-zd6

+ info: https://www.centreforthestudyof.net/?p=5957

3.10.21

Ada Lovelace Day: Volumetric Regimes [Madrid]

Volumetric Regimes
Ada Lovelace Day feat. Possible Bodies (Femke Snelting, Jara Rocha)
 
Sábado, 9 de octubre de 16:00 a 21:00h
 
 
[ENG]

What is going on with 3D!? This question, both modest and enormous, triggered six years of trans*feminist research that are about to be published as "Volumetric Regimes: Material Cultures of Quantified Presence" (Possible Bodies, Eds.; forthcoming at Open Humanities Press). The research trajectory was provoked by an intuitive but collective concern about the way 3D computing quite routinely seems to render racist, sexist, ableist, speciest and ageist worlds. Asking about what is up with 3D is especially urgent when observing its application in border-patrol devices, for climate prediction modeling, in advanced biomedical imaging or throughout the gamify-all approach of overarching industries, from education to logistics.

Trans*feminist research (including feminist technosciences) is neither busy with the celebration of the merits of so-called women* nor with the reproduction of binary categorizations. It is rather about radical interdependence, mutual affection and solidary transdisciplinarity. For this edition of Ada Lovelace Day we therefore invited a gang of local thinkers-doers to respond to, re-interpret, critique, remix and problematize materials from "Volumetric Regimes: Material Cultures of Quantified Presence". The event proposes a spacetime of intimacy with the project and its publication, as read through the specific sensibilities of known and unknown comrades in the making of technosciences otherwise. It will include playful contributions, informal responses and interactive formats proposed by Carmen Romero Bachiller, Marta Echaves, Blanca Pujals and Alejandra López Gabrielidis.

*"Ada Lovelace Day (ALD) is an international celebration of the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM). It aims to increase the profile of women in STEM and, in doing so, create new role models who will encourage more girls into STEM careers and support women already working in STEM."

 
 
[CAST]

¿Qué está pasando con el 3D? Esta pregunta, tan modesta como enorme, desencadenó seis años de una investigación trans*feminista que están a punto de publicarse como "Volumetric Regimes: Material Cultures of Quantified Presence" (Possible Bodies, Eds.; de próxima aparición en Open Humanities Press). La trayectoria de la investigación fue provocada por una preocupación intuitiva pero colectiva sobre el modo en que la computación en 3D parece presentar y representar de forma rutinaria mundos racistas, sexistas, capacitistas, especistas y edadistas. Preguntarse qué pasa con el 3D es especialmente urgente cuando se observa su aplicación en dispositivos de patrullaje fronterizo, para el modelado de predicciones climáticas, en la obtención de imágenes biomédicas avanzadas o en todo el enfoque de gamificación de los procesos industriales en general, aplicado desde la educación hasta la logística.

La investigación trans*feminista (incluidas las tecnociencias feministas) no se ocupa de celebrar los méritos de las llamadas mujeres* ni de reproducir las categorizaciones binarias. Por ello, en esta edición del Ada Lovelace Day se ha invitado a un grupo de pensadoras locales a responder, reinterpretar, criticar, remezclar y problematizar los materiales de esta publicación. El evento plantea un espacio-tiempo de intimidad con el proyecto y su publicación, que será leída a través de las sensibilidades específicas de compañeras conocidas y por conocer en el hacer de las tecnociencias de otra manera. Así, contará con aportaciones experimentales, respuestas informales y formatos interactivos de Marta Echaves, investigadora y comisaria independiente; Alejandra López Gabrielidis, filósofa especializada en arte y tecnologías digitales; la arquitecta, investigadora espacial y escritora Blanca Pujals, y Carmen Romero Bachiller, doctora en Sociología y profesora en la UCM. Cada una de ellas mantendrá un debate posterior con les comisaries, Jara Rocha y Femke Snelting.

La publicación “Volumetric Regimes: Material Cultures of Quantified Presence” surge de Possible Bodies, un proyecto colaborativo sobre la intersección entre la investigación artística y académica que se inició en 2016 para explorar las entidades concretas, y al mismo tiempo complejas y ficticias, de los llamados "cuerpos" en el contexto de la computación 3D. La investigación se centra en las genealogías de cómo los cuerpos y las tecnologías se han constituido mutuamente. La publicación reúne diversos materiales de una conversación en curso entre artistas, desarrolladores de software y teóricos que trabajan con técnicas y tecnologías para detectar, rastrear, imprimir, modelar y renderizar volúmenes.

ADA LOVELACE DAY

Reconocida como la primera programadora de la historia, Ada Augusta Byron King dedujo la capacidad de los ordenadores para ir más allá de los simples cálculos de números, lo que conocemos en la actualidad como “software”. El Día de Ada Lovelace (ALD) es una celebración internacional de los logros de las mujeres en ciencia, tecnología, ingeniería y matemáticas (STEM). Su objetivo es aumentar el perfil de las mujeres en STEM y, al hacerlo, crear nuevos modelos que animen a más niñas a seguir estas carreras y apoyar a las mujeres que ya trabajan en estos campos.

Registro en vídeo del evento completo (a cargo de Raúl):


 

Fotos del evento (a cargo de Lúcas):

flic.kr/p/2mzAcb8


Programa
16:00 Bienvenida y contextualización Volumetric Regimes (Jara Rocha + Femke Snelting)
16:30 Intervención de Alejandra López Gabrielidis
17:30 Intervención de Carmen Romero Bachiller
18:30 Descanso
19:00 Intervención de Marta Echaves
20:00 Intervención de Blanca Pujals
21:00 Fin

http://volumetricregimes.xyz

28.4.21

Regímenes del volumen [conferencia]


[Presentación a cargo de Jara Rocha, de una investigación colaborativa al cuidado tanto de Jara Rocha como de Femke Snelting, en la que también participan muchxs otrxs]

La computación del 3D ha co-evolucionado históricamente con las tecnociencias modernas y se ha alineado con los regímenes de optimización, normalización y de orden mundial hegemónico. Los legados y las proyecciones del desarrollo industrial dejan huellas de ese imaginario y cuentan las historias de una tensión muy viva entre «lo probable» y «lo posible». Definida como el conjunto de técnicas de medición del volumen, la volumetría (re)produce y acentúa con demasiada agilidad lo probable, y este proceso se intensifica en el ámbito tecnocrático de la hipercomputación contemporánea. La ubicuidad de las operaciones eficientes es profundamente perjudicial por el modo en que gradualmente agota el mundo y lo despoja de toda posibilidad de compromiso, interporosidad y potencia vitalista, solidaria e inventiva. «Volumetric Regimes: Material Cultures of Quantified Presence« es el esfuerzo de Jara Rocha y Femke Snelting para proponer una investigación interseccional urgente sobre la volumetría, poniendo en primer plano las prácticas procedimentales, teóricas, estéticas y de infraestructura que proveen con una ampliación de lo posible.

Volumetric Regimes surge de Possible Bodies, un proyecto de colaboración en la intersección entre la investigación artística y la para-académica. El proyecto se inició en 2016 para explorar las entidades muy concretas y al mismo tiempo complejas y ficticias que suponen los llamados «cuerpos» en el contexto de la computación 3D. Esta investigación ha reunido diversos materiales en una conversación continua entre artistas, desarrolladorxs de software y teóriquxs que trabajan con técnicas y tecnologías para detectar, rastrear, imprimir, modelar y renderizar volúmenes.

Jara Rocha trabaja a través de las situadas y complejas formas de distribución de lo tecnológico con una sensibilidad antifa y trans*feminista. Con una curiosa confianza en la logística transtextual y una clara tendencia a la profanación de los modos, suele encontrarse en tareas de remediación, investigación-acción y comisariado in(ter)dependiente. Las principales áreas de estudio tienen que ver con las materialidades semióticas de las urgencias políticas.

Femke Snelting desarrolla proyectos en la intersección del diseño, los feminismos y el software libre. En varias constelaciones, explora cómo las herramientas y las prácticas digitales puedenco-construirse mutuamente. Femke es miembro de Constant, asociación de arte y medios con sede en Bruselas, y colabora con Possible Bodies, The Underground Division y The Institute for Technology in The Public Interest.

+ info e inscripciones: http://faptek.com/conferencia/volumetric-regimes/



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