Constellation: Orgarithm
A portmanteau of “organic” and “algorithm” used to describe a hybrid of human and machine, where the human being regurgitates a limited set of discrete, predefined machinic expressions, becoming fully manipulable — a programmed entity that merely passes for an individual.
Artulacra
Source:: Glitch by Lezet Value in, garbage out: on Al art and hegemony Excerpt from Article by R. H. Lossin (link to full text below) ”Hegemony,” wrote Raymond Williams, “is the continual making and remaking of an effective dominant culture.” The concept of hegemony was used by Williams as a way to rescue culture from…
Proxy People
Source: I Am Sitting in a Room by Alvin Lucier Technoethics (Excerpt) I call you, but you are busy and cannot answer. I mean you cannot answer, but yet “you” can. There is a solution to the problem that we are only able to do so many things at once. And the solution is, in…
The Body Without a Face 1
Source: O Superman by Laurie Anderson Faciliality and Pathology (Excerpt) To understand the significance of [the faciality machine], we must properly understand the register of face as “character”. The face is a double facing entity that represents a socially legible symbolism that with other faces forms the web of connections that is at the basis…
