VergePlotsTribe | Exit Strategies
Oct 11, 2019, 12:39 PM
Brexit protest reimagined by Adam Hulbert.
"During World War One, the radio became a weapon, co-ordinating strikes over distance. With Brexit we saw the emergent weaponisation of Facebook (VERGE) as a tool of division through the data collection of Cambridge Analytica (PLOTS). This same tool then helped organise massive protests (TRIBE) against the results of this weaponisation against the population.
My reworking of a recording of Brexit protest marchers in the UK was made using Eurorack modular. VERGE was a precipice: I leaned into an electromagnetic theremin which output x and y co-ordinates as controlled voltage, and these were mapped over a dome and spread across the system. For PLOTS I sent the audio and sequences through matrices so that they were strategically deployed to specific zones. Obscured in much of the process--but impacting the overall result nonetheless--was the underlying recording of the TRIBE, the citizens of this new cybernetic dystopia, gathering in the mutual dream of spaces between the network."
Part of the Three Words project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/three-words
"During World War One, the radio became a weapon, co-ordinating strikes over distance. With Brexit we saw the emergent weaponisation of Facebook (VERGE) as a tool of division through the data collection of Cambridge Analytica (PLOTS). This same tool then helped organise massive protests (TRIBE) against the results of this weaponisation against the population.
My reworking of a recording of Brexit protest marchers in the UK was made using Eurorack modular. VERGE was a precipice: I leaned into an electromagnetic theremin which output x and y co-ordinates as controlled voltage, and these were mapped over a dome and spread across the system. For PLOTS I sent the audio and sequences through matrices so that they were strategically deployed to specific zones. Obscured in much of the process--but impacting the overall result nonetheless--was the underlying recording of the TRIBE, the citizens of this new cybernetic dystopia, gathering in the mutual dream of spaces between the network."
Part of the Three Words project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/three-words