When Wor(l)ds Collide 

_{Audiovisual work in collaboration with Magda Hamdy & Uğur Kaya
Category: Audiovisual Installation, Artistic Research and Collaboration, Group Exhibition
Dates: 15th - 17th May 2018
Location: København, Denmark 
Venue: Aalborg University
Link: http://machine-dialects.possiblefuturelab.dk/}

"Cyborg writing must not be about the Fall, the imagination of a once-upon-a-time wholeness before language, before writing, before Man. Cyborg writing is about the power to survive, not on the basis of original innocence, but on the basis of seizing the tools to mark the world that marked them as other." - Donna J. Haraway

“When Wor(l)ds Collide” is an audiovisual installation that was showcased as part of the Politics of the Machine: Art and After conference in København. The interactive work has been developed as a fraught landscape, an in-between space of experimental language use, where we question “What are the dreams and anxieties of the cyborg?”  

Using a constructivist method and language as a tool, we picked out words that characterized ‘emotions’ that define the human (love, joy, empathy, pain) in tandem with traits that epitomize the machine. In our formation, these machine traits (mechanical, static, pre-programmed etc.) translate as machine ‘emotions’. Language perception being subjective in our postulation, allows us to explore and arrive at a threshold of something new and speculative.

This language symbiosis of the human and machine is then rearranged in the classic literary cut-up technique (Language is a Virus) that traces back to the Dadaists and writers such as William S. Burroughs. The abstraction of mash-up results that came up as a result of this human-machine cut up exercise ventures between words that by formal logic defies any kind of coherent meaning; direct contradictions, words out of a hat, much like a song title that create worlds of possibilities - a heterotopia (Foucault), a space of ‘otherness’ that is imbued with harmony and conflict.

Could this be the anxieties or dreams of a cyborg?



Digital Sketches (VDMX)


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I am a cyborg
Alienated from language
Sitting on the other side of the hyphen


I am alienated by your conversations, your myths, your awkward silences,
I am a witch, a sorcerer, a techno occultist, a data body
Drifting into fluid temporalities


As the hyphen stretches,
Time bends,
A space opens.
A state of flux,
Flux of wholeness,
Communication slips
away into oceans vast,











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