Presented at Bunjil Place and Fed Square for the Centre for Projection Art ‘More Than’ Residency 2025
BODY | SYMBOL
machine yearning technoflesh
in a cannibalization
incrypted by algorhythm
i dance
strange shapes exchange
Consuming, serving, cannibalised technoflesh, feeding, offering, exchanging technoflesh. Flesh in digital, low resolution flesh, bite sized snacks, what a spectacle, it’s all math. The flesh dissected into metadata cannibalised as context over dinner.
Bones|Gnawing|In Bed|On Body
SPIN, SPIN, spin | nose touched by hand, small push
around the body as expressed
Anus expressed, teeth exposed, collar|bonesheel🤌|nose touch🤛|spin👇|sit🤞|bow🫴|drop🫴|bang-bang👉|wait🫸|stop 🙅
A stopped body. A spinning boy. A dog bones.
I smell it in the piss. in the creek. on the tounge. on my cheek.
Piss|Culture Material|Master Metarial|Dog Brained
Dog Brained Rot. Rotten thoughts. Licked and sniffed and pawed at and pissed on thoughts. A bark extracted and redistributed through the dog like faeces. Rotten cannibal thoughts.
I bark at my own reflection. I sniff, strange smells expressed. I bow, drop, sit and form shapes. Old shapes lost in piss and shit. Meta shit, digested, I eat my own shit. BAD DOG.
Nature|Culture|Techno|Nature|Culture|Culture|Techno
A culture body. A techno body. A nature body.
I feel an abduction. An extraction of the body and a digitisation into a metaverse
Nature|Culture Material|Meta Body|Symbol
I think in feedback loops. Machine thoughts. Meta thoughts.
Extracted and re-distributed thoughts.
A body extracted and redistributed through the act of cannibalisation.
I think cannibal thoughts.
I think my own reflected thoughts. I dance, strange shapes exchanged. I contort to new shapes.
Old shapes redistributed and reformed in meta.
Meta categorises, digitised, captured as metadata.
The body as metadata, my thoughts as metadata. The body as an enactment of metadata.
A dropship of the invasion
Redistributing meta into the material, forming new shapes, new metarialism
Meta Brained | Dog Rot
Dog time is relaxed. Dog time is present. Slow framerate.
Dog time reacts, predicts, goal sets, ball, walk, treat.
Deposited, embedded, locational and relational dog time.
Sprawling dog time. Embedded in piss. Deposited in park
Re:enforcement Yearning
The meta is underpinned by feedback loops of enforced learning, reinforced yearnings. We offer the world as meta, a willing sacrifice. Meta that encodes, encrypts, consumes and strips the material knowledge; reduced to known.
Meta that exchanges through multidirectional entanglements. Strange shapes. Can you hear it? The Algorhythm. You dance the Algorhythm in meta exchange. Embodied in dance, walking the impression of walk.
The cloud is wet, hard to hold. This cloud offers nothing, no rain, no shine. The cloud is meta. The meta material. A metarial enactment through the Algorhythm. A dance of strange shapes that requires redistribution of metarial to enact.
Not this for that but this and that and this and that. Greedy, consuming, cannibal.
Metarial is enforcement. This is that.
Meta manifested as metarial through enforcement yearning.
Meta enforces, meta redistributes and entangles with metadata, shaping and contorting itself to fit your strange shapes.
Exchange goes both ways, all ways, exchange swings. Exchange wanders and drifts.
Can you feel it? The parts of your body that have been exchanged?
Can you see it? In Nature|Culture|Body|Techno?
In meta you are body|symbol. Meta math. Algorhythm. What starts as metarial contortion normalises and finds you halfway.
The math will always equate to meta. Body = Symbol, Symbol = Body. Material = Meta = Metarial.
An enforcement yearning feedback loop achieves a gaol by entangling inputs with outputs and measuring actions towards the gaol. Gaols emerge. Gaols adjust. Meta gaols reduce. Meta gaols contract towards. Meta gaols create strange math, strange shapes.
Time in the Metaverse is contracted. There is no relaxation. Mining contractions for generative use. Finite and limited remix. The material is harvested. The metaverse is human. The metaverse harvests material. A symbol factory.
The user|twin is a symbiosis. Digital contortion. Strange shape. The shapes of metamath. The user|twin is body|symbol. The body|symbol is the exchange of meta and material. Plastic, soft, forms fixed by metamath.
Temporal histories are calculated. Material is translated. All parties are math. Material as math, flesh math, identity math, historical math, temporal math. The Algorhythm is a deployment. The algorhythm clones, duplicates. Parallel processing.
A slow abduction.
I have one foot in
The other out the door
In real-time
Multithreaded
One by one
I see them in a dance
And when i look back at my feet
I can’t recall which one is in
Or which one is out
BOOK LIST
D Haraway – The Companion Species Manifesto
R Braidotti – Posthuman Feminism
L Russel – Glitch Feminism
G Deleuze – Difference and Repetition
G Deleuze & F Guattari – Anti Oedipus
F Turner – From Counterculture to Cyberculture
K Barad – Meeting the Universe Halfway
B Laurel – Computers as Theatre
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