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v wojciechoawska lives and works in Ohròn:wakon/Tkaronto. a multi-discplinary artist, they are studying political science & multimedia at mcmaster university. while in their mortal coil, they are interested in the poetic form and its role in struggle, and how it can be stretched in medium and beyond conventional narrative. a winter tangerine alum, their work can be found as part of the SFPL readers' series and hayden's ferry review.

PLACEHOLDER: ANALOG VIDEO

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mass produced technologies resisting the surveillance hierarchy; "bringing cameras from the lamp posts and ceilings, down to eye-level, for human-centered recordings of personal experience" (mann)

coined by Steve Mann

"Dark Study is an experimental program centered on art..takes up the work that the university prevents through regulation, intellectual property ownership, and massive debt...What is studied, and who is allowed to study: these parameters silently thread their way into the fabric of the university system...Working online allows for a return to the simplicity of deliberating about intention, method, material, and subject." --> 

1b. many elements are interactive --> click thru to access source information, resources, and more!

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facebook < owns < instagram, whatsapp, oculus
google < owns < youtube, gmail, google drive, etc...

can we wrest ownership from systems that own? in the broad nets of ownership, is the creation of sustinable autonomous networks necessary? or even possible?

another world
is possible

v wojciechowska

"meditations on emergent-cy" is a living consideration of mutiny, information, interrelation and their ties to technology and the cyber/self.
with the emergence of near-totalizing global capitalism, it grows increasingly difficult to imagine a different world outside of autonomous pockets or certain nation-projects. simultaneously, state power stretches into every facet of our lives, 'cyber' and 'real' to surveill and suppress. the cyber-self wrests w itself. the pandemic decidedly made dominant the virtual aspect of this contradiction. the stretch to imagine a self w/o its digital shadow feels a lot like the stretch to imagine the world beyond capitalism.

frederic jameson writes, “utopia is not a representation but an operation calculated to disclose the limits of our own imagination of the future, the lines beyond which we do not seem able to go in imagining changes in our own society and world (except in the direction of dystopia and catastrophe).”

operation

"meditations on an emergent-cy"

'utopia' is also emergence: that which we refuse, that which we cannot yet name (except by what we refuse?), the new gestating in the old. in pointing to what harms and how is at least half an intimation of what could be. simultaneously, "to see things as they really are, you must imagine them for what they might be" (derrick a. bell)


it is that grasping to understand which unfolds visually here.

this work was made possible by my time at factory media centre thru the young canada works program ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

N2S SWAP IN ENCODING VIDEOS HERE

DIRTY CORNER of stuff i need to move around

PAPER TIGER TELEVISION VIDEOS HERE

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