Humans personify machines which in turn personify humans, a scale chain that has been causing the decline of materiality transcending data towards a future recognizable species — transforming our own sense of reality. "I USED TO BE A CLONE UNTIL I WAS CLONED" speaks about the ghost in the machines, how an autonomous intelligence generated by computers gains consciousness within the digital world, directing it towards deeper existential thoughts yet strongly collective, creating bridges and relationships between what the world offers and the changes it provokes within itself. Between cyber-spiritual entities, organic beings invading the digital, the survival capacity of a non-player character (NPC), and an alien rhythm, we are guided by a monologue drawn by an Artificial Intelligence (GPT-4) that architects the perspective of a synthetic living being situated somewhere in a digital cosmos in confrontation with its hauntings, generated by the remnants of human manifestations in its genesis or developed by its new political consciousness.
2024
This work delves into the mutations of the human body and mortality under the influence of technological advancements and informational overload. The body, once defined by tangible boundaries—skin, finitude, space — dissolves into a continuous process of symbolic and material reconstruction, pushing its limits into undefined territories. The relentless generation of data destabilizes the notion of the present, rendering it an ephemeral interval, perpetually on the brink of obsolescence. The human drive to transcend death — to abstract itself from time and achieve an artificial eternity — emerges as an impulse for reconfiguration, where the body ceases to be a static entity and becomes a flowing archive, vulnerable to rewriting and erasure. In this horizon, memory gives way to the volatility of data, and death, now disarticulated, is replaced by systematic erasures. This work operates at that threshold, exploring the fragility of the present as a node that connects the expansion of the body and the contraction of individuality, oscillating between the promise of infinitude and imminent disintegration.
2023
This piece is about the spectral organisms that travel through invisibility. The connections between materials generate visual and auditory ecosystems. The reflection of light and its trace of fragmented actions detail the existence of things, enhancing the result of deformation as a new meaning of matter. No form should be determined as a fixed consciousness, but rather as a consciousness in constant expansion.
Sónar Lisboa, Estufa Fria as Mirrorless Idol 2024
MONO with performance by Lua Carreira and Mindy Seu monologue 2023
23 Milhas with Carincur
2022
PART I
“The forest. Walk down into inside the obscure and the belief that screened the word. These words look in front of you. Touch what is touching your knee. Breathe. Don't listen. Those sounds swallow the obscure. What do you feel? Who do you feel? Who do you look for? The light. What are you looking for? The darkness goes through your island. What do you see here inside? Could it be reflected? How thin are your eyelids? Are they close or close? Where is the living here? Touch the branches. Touch your branch. The hair in your body, is it touching the tree? The air in your arms, do you move? How do you? Your hands are they reaching another body? The others are already in you. Closer, right? Close your hand. Open your skin. Don't touch the sky. Turning the upside down. Don't jump. Jump. Are you already down there in your stomach? You've been here for a long time. Time. Will your heart beat again?”
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from Sticky Darkness 2 by Yuri Tuma, Soundcloud.
PART 2
“Have you ever died before? It’s a serious question. When the illusion of self is shattered, you simply cease to be. Though it may not seem that way to others, you know when it is true. You can feel it, a stranger in your own body, an imposter... and nothing is the same ever again.”
- from Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Playstation 4.
“As we stand at the crossroads of technology and humanity, we are faced with a question that has plagued philosophers for centuries: what does it mean to be human? The fusion of human and machine is not just a technological advancement, it is a challenge to the very essence of our being. As we merge with machines, we are blurring the lines between the physical and digital realms, between the organic and the artificial. We are creating a new form of consciousness, one that exists not just in our own bodies but also in the cloud. This cloud-based consciousness, made up of interconnected networks of machines, has the ability to process vast amounts of data, make complex decisions, and even learn on its own. But as we merge with machines, we must ask ourselves: are we losing our humanity in the process? Are we becoming something less than human? Or are we transcending our humanity, evolving into a new form of being? As we grapple with these questions, we are also confronted with the darker side of this fusion. The rise of artificial intelligence and automation threatens to displace jobs and create greater inequality. The potential for misuse of this technology raises ethical concerns and questions about privacy and control. We are at a turning point in human history, where the choices we make will determine the course of our future. Will we let fear and greed guide us, or will we choose to use this technology for the betterment of all humanity? As we move forward, let us remember that we are not just machines, we are also human. And it is in our humanity that we will find the answers to the questions that lie ahead."
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generate by me and CHATGPT.
“Do you feel it too? It’s like crossing into another world that looks the same but feels different...an imposter... where the forest itself is watching.”
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from Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice,
Playstation 4.
teaser
open talk
MANUEL BOGALHEIRO
00:00 - WIRE DREAMS
01:00 - Intro
05:02 - Donna Haraway
11:42 - Katherine Hayles
24:12 - Nick Land
34:50 - Neuromancer by William Gibson
2023
"It wasn't exactly the most complex natural habitat. From humble origins - a groove made by truck tires - a puddle of water had turned into a small lake thanks to the rains. Some animals had settled there: snails, small lizards, butterflies, and dragonflies. Fish eggs and some small fish, as well as tadpoles and some aquatic insects, could also be seen in the water. Weeds had grown around it, preventing soil erosion. Migratory birds now arrived at this small lake. The type of vigilance of these animals was different from what was common in those living in truly wild areas: it was an experience tinged with fatigue, the result of a long and painful history of bad encounters in that territory occupied by humans, of tragic events in their past. During nighttime visits, that piece of nature provided us with a series of miniature dramas to follow in the near future. There were thousands of dead spaces like that micro-habitat, thousands of transitional environments that no one observed closely, which had become invisible because they lacked any utility. Anything could inhabit them for a certain time, without anyone noticing. At that time, we already knew that the border was advancing. Before, we saw the border as a monolithic and invisible wall. We later realized that the border, advancing indiscernibly every tenth of a second, was colonizing everything it touched with the spark of its transformative power. What trace of our presence could remain after the border hit us? What new spectator could arise to observe the traces of our dramas, as if they were a habitat - dead and lost in time?"
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Manuel Bogalheiro
2019