machines // magic // imago

The installation and the online environment will serve as contexts for an ongoing forum throughout the duration of PERSONAL STRUCTURES. The forum will be a meeting place of indigenous healers, activists, artists, coders, philosophers and the public to engage in discussions and events addressing critical questions of the present.
These contributions will continue to live in the online environment to constitute MAGINES as a collective manifesto: collective imagination of what is possible.
The discussions can be organized around three main axis:

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MAGINES

/ magic / machines / imago
/ a theoretical and creative digital environment; an alternative microverse, a network of creative pedagogical and existential concerns
/ e-merging (physical-online) environment: an interface at the in-between spatial realms, the locus of contemporary existence.
/ re-imagines the digital interface - today's main medium of communication, our universal language-, in order to imagine 'other' universes, 'other' futures.
/ reclaims the digital interface as the first artistic medium of the 21 century. A revival of the creative anarchy of the early years of the internet.
/ ‘other interfaces’: a reaction against the oppressive nature of today’s online experiences. Creative ressistance to today’s homogenizing digital interface design practices, manifestations of the technocratic imagination, key elements in the consolidation of what Soshana Zubov terms ‘surveillance Capitalism’

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