How do we come together? How do we go apart?
forming -- offering --exchange
This part dealt with questions of resonance — no resonance, in a world where the construction of Self/ the folk-phenomenological notion of “being someone”, a persona (capitalist - neoliberal or
Is this something worse? -- McKenzie Warkian) shatters/fails for some (f.e. systemic Trauma, PTSD) and for others this notion goes on unquestioned (maintaining continuity), maintaining their forms of persona, of acts and speeches.
How the communication between the two figures falls mute/ becomes difficult.
How do we come together? How do we go apart?
In a second step I transferred this forming -- offering -- exchange to the Image Generator Dream by Wombo. An experiment which overall failed.
with Neva Guido
Offering Dream by Wombo a form made out of mud/dirt.
Wombo’s offer in return.
My offer in return. And so on.
“The (Golem is the ) almost miraculous character of the spontaneous transformation from the disorder of inorganic matter to the order of living organisms (...)” And “(...) the process of its creation and dissolution highlights the connection between matter and information (...) the word, a ‘string’ of information, that enables matter to organise itself according to a particular structure.” Laura Tripaldi in Parallel Minds
reference image
prompt:
An intentional shape made out of mud.
A coarse texture.
(“the word, a ‘string’ of information, that enables matter to organize itself”)
Strong Influence
Weak Influence
I try to pick up on Wombo’s suggestion.
(I am strongly influenced)
The play with surface and texture.
weak influence
Prompt:
A knobby shiny surface.
Prompt:
A fragile caressing surface with scratches all over.
Sourced from the Wissahickon stream. Wissahickon, was created from two Lenni Lenape words: "Wisaucksickan” meaning “yellow-colored stream" and "Wisamickan" meaning "catfishcreek."
The Wissahickon Creek Watershed is rich in both mica and clay soils.
“a mysterious environmental echo
of the land” (Memoria)
adding fluids 'animating the organism/
indicating vitality'
Prompt:
Coarse texture with scratches.
Prompt:
A frayed coarse surface.
Prompt:
A stringent highly resonating surface.
Clays are able to replicate and drive the evolution of metabolism; they have the catalytic ability to synthesize monomers (amino acids, nucleotides, etc.) and polymerize them, resulting in RNA–peptide worlds in which RNA replicates (genes) and, in cooperation with coded peptides, drives the evolution of the cell.
reference image, strong influence
Prompt:
The shape is covered in long soft hair.
Only prompt:
A flat coarse structure with a cylinder of mud rising up in the middle.
the lifeless substance