GOLDSMITHS | BA Fine Art & History of Art 2021

Alba Schloessingk



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> and when i/you have downloaded the .wav file i/U can do whatever i/U want with it ; it becomes open-source , in a way , because it belongs to my/your laptop now . and my/your laptop is a prosthetic of my/your brain ; senses . a Download is a direct ingestation of information onto my hard drive , or my cloud . i have ingurgitated it orificially and now it’s time to smash it up mash it up. > when i look at the folders on my Home screen it looks like a Neural network or a mycorrhizal network i can see the information files laid out like my brain-library . Xactly like my brain-library. sharing of information and retrieving of it ; so Beautiful . it’s RHIZOMATIC . i see the files spurting out intra-entangled like mycelia . the Terminology for collaborative fungal networks in forests has been taken from internet Language i.e. It is often called the woodwideweb . same OS.

> and anna tsing says that the matsutake mushroom needs disturbance to flourish

cliX and ……Xpands in microseconds …… and surround-sound submerged into a wet aurality . digital intimacy i feel with my laptop unprecedented . plug myself into myself into infovortex . slither from software to hardware. and i like the seepage . laptop not unvisceral . all these accidents that happen . there;s a corruption in my .wav file .
———> a Utopian view , bionic view . me? and my bacteria and my laptop and my fluids and my headphones are a Holobiont.


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