Ada Ada Ada⭕️ NEW WORK: CIRCULAR POEM ABOUT THE ONGOING HISTORY OF DIGITAL MEDIA ⭕️
I recently had the honor to be asked by 2 Curators 1 Collapse, if I wanted to write a poem for their exhibition RING/CAM : Volume I at the Softer Space in Copenhagen, which also featured amazing works by Zach Blas, Hannibal Dahl and Ruba Al-Sweel.
Inspired by the title of the exhibition, which refers to the ubiquitous combination of ring lights and phone cameras, I decided to write a circular poem, where there is no "right way" to read it. You can read it clockwise, one line at a time, one semicircle at a time or a combination of all of them. See the whole thing in slide 6.
The poem draws parallels to several phenomena related to the ongoing history of digital media. It refers to a viral TikTok video of Chinese women sitting under a bridge streaming themselves, a video report by Channel 4 going into a coltan mine in Congo, Wikipedia edit history, the in transitu project, a Sora-2 video of Sam Altman stealing GPUs and so much more.
The poem was printed on sheets of semitransparent paper, which the audience could take home. We also decided to setup a small screen (slide 7) to show the poem, a relevant meme (last slide) and a recent post from in transitu in which I use a ring light to illuminate my n1ppl3s.
I recently had the honor to be asked by 2 Curators 1 Collapse, if I wanted to write a poem for their exhibition RING/CAM : Volume I at the Softer Space in Copenhagen, which also featured amazing works by Zach Blas, Hannibal Dahl and Ruba Al-Sweel.
Inspired by the title of the exhibition, which refers to the ubiquitous combination of ring lights and phone cameras, I decided to write a circular poem, where there is no "right way" to read it. You can read it clockwise, one line at a time, one semicircle at a time or a combination of all of them. See the whole thing in slide 6.
The poem draws parallels to several phenomena related to the ongoing history of digital media. It refers to a viral TikTok video of Chinese women sitting under a bridge streaming themselves, a video report by Channel 4 going into a coltan mine in Congo, Wikipedia edit history, the in transitu project, a Sora-2 video of Sam Altman stealing GPUs and so much more.
The poem was printed on sheets of semitransparent paper, which the audience could take home. We also decided to setup a small screen (slide 7) to show the poem, a relevant meme (last slide) and a recent post from in transitu in which I use a ring light to illuminate my n1ppl3s.
