In-grid explored our fourth face of Liminal Touch with the help of Maggie Roberts, a member of the 0rphan Drift collaboration. Their practice explores different modes of collaboration and how it could be expanded to the non human. Orphan Drift was working with Etic Lab, asking what it might mean to communicate with an Alien Intelligence and how might we try to do it? Involving direct encounters with cephalopods and collaborative explorations with Machine Learning engineers, VR designers and teuthologists. During this session we looked predominantly into the two following areas:
Collaboration
In-grid has used a number of platforms to form over, places to merge thoughts, feelings and ideas, but how can they re-imagine they’re elements converging, collecting and filtering? What constitutes collaboration and how is In-grid forming through it?
Dispersed Archive/Conscious
In-grid was collecting memories, transient thoughts and conversations from all it’s members, compiling a recollection, a conscious of its own creation. In-grid was looking for ways to keep this dispersed network of interactions decentralized and non-linear, an archive that reflects In-grids conception and formation.
Reading In-grids Collective Conscious with Maggie Roberts
During the virtually connected time of the In-grid's Arebyte + Goldsmith's residency, one of the key ways In-grid formulated their ideas was through collaborative writing, forming text’s from txt’s, making passage through passages, culminating conversations into solidified forms. Writing grown from a milieu, bursting and bulging at its chapters, paragraphs breaking into two, ending’s becoming beginnings.
Our collaboration with Maggie Roberts was concluded with a reading of some of In-grid's writings.