Taking Natural Language Processing and search engine results as her raw material, artist Marija Bozinovska Jones gestures towards an synergistic conception of awareness with image, motion and routine.
With Beginningless Mind, Marija Bozinovska Jones postures some basic concerns, how do we understand, how do we understand that we understand and, mostimportantly, what makes our beliefs warranted? In a tripartite, audiovisual narrative, Jones checksout 2 main public gainaccessto understanding commons, Wikipedia and search engines, in genuine time, utilizing NLP (Natural Language Processing), a branch of synthetic intelligence that offers with the interaction inbetween computersystems and people utilizing natural language, established togetherwith Jayson Haebich. By linking the material streams of Wikipedia and Google Earth to search engine results, Jones is able to evaluate live speech, linking spoken language with what most individuals at any provide minute are browsing for online in a complex simulation of reasonable, human-centred intelligence. “I’m curious about the inexpressible and the transcendental; the embodied as an experience which cannot be revealed into words,” discusses Jones to Edwina McEachran of AND Festival. “With technological userinterfaces, which rely on language as a interaction tool, we tend to hit a wall with the affective, an undetectable wall most of the time. Referencing thinker Ludwig Wittgenstein’s ‘the limitations of my language are the limitations of my world’ the work interacts overarching concepts which offer with production of truth and purchasing of understanding. Essentially, synthetic intelligence is made understanding, a simulation of understanding and intelligence as cognitive procedures neglecting embodied understanding.” Juxtaposing images recorded through satellite with videofootage recorded at the Observatory Science Centre at Herstmonceux, Jones utilizes a third-person POV most carefully associated to videogaming, marking a thread of subjectivity in opposition to the satellite’s Gods’ eye viewpoint.
By utilizing NLP in combination with openly available understanding resources, Jones is able to gobeyond the limitations of what the program is skilled to acknowledge semantically, approximating a cumulative understanding of speech based on the results of what most individuals were browsing for online at that minute. “It wouldn’t always return results for the browsed expression or the string of words, however whatever was most optimised or trending, frequently with rather approximate results,” describes Jones. “The returned results can be ridiculous and extremely amusing, exposing a rather lucid algorithmic thinking.” In this method the artist reveals how this algorithmic thinking impacts its own production of truth, buying understanding into classifications based not on individual enquiry, however on populism, both democratically obtained and artificially enhanced through Search Engine Optimisation (SEO). “It is techno-capitalism at its finest,” asserts Jones. “This method of obtaining understanding produces a concept of truth, consistingof the expansion of phony news and conspiracy theories. This is the factor why I desired to go someplace beyond language since the overarching concept of the work is interconnectedness and connection as a felt experience – something skilled as a sense of belonging and a supporting method of being in and with the world.”
In its initial model, Beginningless Mind gestured towards more embodied types of intelligence in image, spoken word and the sensational electronic rating from 33EMYBW and Gediminas Žygus. For Rivers, Rhythms, Rituals, Jones worked in partnership with Berlin motion artist Franka Marlene Foth to equate the results one action more, into a “kinesthetic vernacular,” which the artists explain as “a gesture where the spoken collapses significance onto motion.” In a procedure of translation that moves past the machine-level pointofview of intelligence as a cognitive procedure that neglects embodied understanding, Jones positions Beginningless Mind as providing forth and streaming through the body, a corporeal freedom from algorithmic thinking. “To transcend the constraints of language, Beginningless Mind observes the mind as embodied intelligence with permeable borders,” explains Jones. “A view of the body as a cumulative assemblage of social, product and unknowable plethoras, queers the nature-culture divide. Starting where we are, we can start to improve our awareness towards universal kinship. Viewed as an open holistic system, such intelligence releases natural knowledge through motion, where the unfolding of awareness surpasses the limit of the skin.”
By goingbeyond the restrictions of language and redefining intelligence and understanding as naturally physical phenomena, Jones is able to trace awareness as an extensive, streaming network of synergistic exchange, inbetween mind and body, organism and environment. “In union with the environment it is madeup of and positioned in, the embodied mind as intrinsic multiplicity feeds back info through pickingup plethora sources,” discusses Jones. “A view of a cumulative sympoietic assemblage as concrete and invisible interrelations, uses freedom from categorisations. Interdependent with other environments, cumulative personifications engage in a continuous life-maintaining routine of energy circulations. The title, Rivers, Rhythms, Rituals, refers to the dharmic concept of the mind as universal awareness which has no start nor end and manifests as a consistent energy improvement. Approaching our requirement for connection through the commons of the web and our primitive correlation with the more-than-human, might timely us to support our contact zones. Starting where we are, we can start to improve our awareness towards universal kinship.”
In a gesture towards an adjoined, synergistic design awareness, Jones discovers a extreme, participatory practice in the type of Self Optimisation, a psilocybin tea reading which, in her own words, “invites embodied understanding of an online mycelial facilities to decolonize hierarchical world-making and jointly hallucinate brand-new imaginaries.” Employing the verysame NLP strategies as Beginningless Mind, choices from the canonical science fiction of Octavia Butler were utilized as the spoken input, to which imaginary images gathered from search engine results was matched in a “collective acts of lucid dreaming.” Placed in opposition to the estimated, algorithmic