Machine Anamnesis
2022
12" transparent lathe cut in an edition of 25 copies, no label/etchings, cut by DISC_ARCHIVE, Berlin.
Screen printing by Et al. Press.
2022
12" transparent lathe cut in an edition of 25 copies, no label/etchings, cut by DISC_ARCHIVE, Berlin.
Screen printing by Et al. Press.
Machine Anamnesis is built upon de- and re-compositions of materials through recursive methodologies. Devising synthetic voices as recalling mechanisms, false patterns are identified and dumb-forms emerge.
At a moment when the distinction between algorithmic and human cultural production may be irrevocably blurred due to the increasing sophistication of AI technologies, it has become both commonplace and irrelevant to question what will become of the human. Machine Anamnesis asks us to instead consider a neglected relation concealed by this formulation; that is, what may become of the machinic when it is unfolded according to its own operative dynamics. In this work we can witness a process set into motion from a source text that interprets its output across a series of transductions. The results of this process, then, are at once the recall of an essential invariant and the catastrophic forgetting of its meaning.
