dispatch 002: Personal Computer 1
Five Views in Thirteen Years, an exhibition exploring the temporal residue of digital culture and the infrastructural logic of planned obsolescence.
✦ This Haunted Inbox Where I Archive ✦
A drawer inside the cathedral. Fragments drift through. You may linger, but some things will not be explained.
Re: You Missed It
Dear [Person or data aggregation algorithm reading this],
Five Views in Thirteen Years has already begun. You may not have noticed. In fact, it’s possible you were there, and still missed it.
To those who glimpsed a figure clutching a 1986 Teleac binder at Pakhuis de Zwijger during an event on AI creativity, that was me. If you saw the images projected at the event’s screen, that was the portable installation of Five Views in Thirteen Years deployed in public, with an audience. This was not a disruption, but a quiet recalibration, a spectral correction to the smooth rhythms of techno-optimism. A view unclaimed, unindexed. The exhibition has begun. Attempts were made to unlawfully claim the binder. These were unsuccessful. The binder remains pristine, its contents in latency. Next time, look out for the overhead projector transparencies I might have left behind. Fragments of an unclaimed view.
The first view occurred as a tribute to a Sponsormancy* ritual. See you at the second view.
No further documentation exists. Or perhaps it does, but remains unindexed.
For those who suspect something happened, the full exhibition proposal can be found here: Five Views in Thirteen Years (PDF)
* Sponsormancy
Divinatory practice performed on funding proposals, in which speculative futures are conjured through vague mission alignment and algorithmic appeal. Practitioners attempt to summon capital by speaking in tongues of resilience, innovation, and multi-stakeholder co-creation. Rituals often involve circle diagrams, success metrics, and mandatory diversity statements.
Common offerings: unpaid labour, strategic ambiguity, diagrammatic obfuscation.
Outcome: rarely funding; often hauntings.
Whether it ever occurs again is immaterial.
You’ve read this. That is already the exhibition.
§ This is errant correspondence. There are no contact forms.
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