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S(l)aving the Fabrikans
Sonny had never seen a Fabrikan in person. He stared at the miserable, metal thing as it imitated an uncannily humanoid slumber. It lay stiff across Sonny’s only good couch that often moonlighted as his bed. The other automaton explained..
Beyond the human body: expanding empathy to all life
*This is a midterm paper from CHID 390: Politics of Life, focusing on non-human life & using Ann Hamilton’s exhibit as a lens to think through cross-species connection
In this essay, I would like to focus on love,..
GEOCOSM: Breaking the Frame
By Andrea Harris
“Geocosm” is a pseudoscientific project blending methods of sampling and categorization with the ideas of cybernetics and ecology. It creates an archive of place and a language to question within. It was developed during my time of residency at the HEIMA Collective in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland.
DIGIMEM: A Digitalization of Bergson’s Cone of Memory
By Michael Beach
DIGIMEM is an interactive website that represents Henri Bergson’s Cone of Memory in a digital format that bridges his ideas of time and memory with an idea of digital systems as a vital force that relates to humans in a symbiotic fashion …
The Organization: The Renegades
By David Nguyen
The Nautilus: An Oral History Poem of a Colonisation of Indigenous Peoples
Foreword
This poem is my attempt at capturing a snapshot of a long history of the Ngati Whatua o Orakei, a hapu (sub-tribe) belonging to a city district in Auckland now known as Orakei.
It is written as we, although the stories and experiences in this poem …
The Right to the Alley
By Aidan Quinlan
The Allegro alleyway is a significant space for me (and for so many others too). With this short comic I explore how the crowded alleyway on 42nd, between the Ave and 15th, is conceived, perceived, and lived. It..
The Dream Recorder
by Chloe Sismour
My childhood was filled with dream catchers. Each night I checked to make sure my dream catcher was in proper, working order: there had to be just enough space to let the good dreams in and keep the bad dreams out –..