Marija Bozinovska Jones transcends the limitations of language

Taking Organic Language Processing and research engine effects as her uncooked substance, artist Marija Bozinovska Jones gestures toward an interdependent conception of consciousness with graphic, movement and ritual.

With Beginningless Head, Marija Bozinovska Jones poses some fundamental questions, how do we know, how do we know that we know and, crucially, what tends to make our beliefs justified? In a tripartite, audiovisual narrative, Jones explores two central general public entry knowledge commons, Wikipedia and search engines, in true time, working with NLP (Purely natural Language Processing), a department of artificial intelligence that offers with the conversation in between personal computers and individuals working with purely natural language, produced alongside Jayson Haebich. By connecting the content material streams of Wikipedia and Google Earth to look for motor success, Jones is ready to analyse reside speech, connecting spoken language with what most folks at any give minute are seeking for on the internet in a elaborate simulation of rational, human-centred intelligence. “I’m curious about the ineffable and the transcendental the embodied as an knowledge which are not able to be expressed into words,” points out Jones to Edwina McEachran of AND Festival. “With technological interfaces, which count on language as a communication tool, we are likely to hit a wall with the affective, an invisible wall most of the time. Referencing philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein’s ‘the limitations of my language are the restrictions of my world’ the get the job done communicates overarching concepts which offer with production of actuality and buying of information. Effectively, artificial intelligence is manufactured understanding, a simulation of awareness and intelligence as cognitive processes disregarding embodied understanding.” Juxtaposing pictures captured by way of satellite with footage filmed at the Observatory Science Centre at Herstmonceux, Jones utilizes a third-particular person POV most intently connected to gaming, marking a thread of subjectivity in opposition to the satellite’s Gods’ eye perspective. 

By using NLP in conjunction with publicly accessible information resources, Jones is able to exceed the restrictions of what the system is trained to recognise semantically, approximating a collective understanding of speech primarily based on the final results of what most folks ended up looking for on the web at that second. “It would not essentially return success for the searched phrase or the string of terms, but what ever was most optimised or trending, often with somewhat arbitrary outcomes,” clarifies Jones. “The returned success can be nonsensical and pretty entertaining, revealing a alternatively lucid algorithmic reasoning.” In this way the artist demonstrates how this algorithmic reasoning outcomes its have production of actuality, ordering expertise into types primarily based not on personalized enquiry, but on populism, both democratically derived and artificially boosted by using Look for Motor Optimisation (Seo). “It is techno-capitalism at its finest,” asserts Jones. “This way of deriving expertise results in a idea of actuality, including the proliferation of pretend news and conspiracy theories. This is the motive why I required to go somewhere over and above language mainly because the overarching strategy of the perform is interconnectedness and interdependence as a felt encounter – some thing experienced as a feeling of belonging and a nurturing way of currently being in and with the planet.”

In its initial iteration, Beginningless Thoughts gestured in direction of extra embodied varieties of intelligence in image, spoken word and the amazing electronic score from 33EMYBW and Gediminas Žygus. For Rivers, Rhythms, Rituals, Jones worked in collaboration with Berlin motion artist Franka Marlene Foth to translate the benefits just one stage even further, into a “kinesthetic vernacular,” which the artists describe as “a gesture in which the verbal collapses that means on to movement.” In a process of translation that moves previous the device-amount point of view of intelligence as a cognitive course of action that disregards embodied awareness, Jones situates Beginningless Mind as issuing forth and flowing by way of the body, a corporeal liberation from algorithmic reasoning. “To transcend the limitations of language, Beginningless Mind observes the brain as embodied intelligence with porous boundaries,” describes Jones. “A check out of the human body as a collective assemblage of social, product and unknowable multitudes, queers the mother nature-society divide. Setting up wherever we are, we can start out to refine our consciousness toward common kinship. Seen as an open holistic method, this sort of intelligence releases innate knowledge by way of movement, where the unfolding of awareness exceeds the threshold of the pores and skin.”

By transcending the limitations of language and redefining intelligence and information as inherently bodily phenomena, Jones is in a position to trace consciousness as an expansive, flowing community of interdependent trade, among mind and entire body, organism and natural environment. “In union with the atmosphere it is composed of and situated in, the embodied head as intrinsic multiplicity feeds back again information and facts via sensing multitude resources,” explains Jones. “A see of a collective sympoietic assemblage as tangible and imperceptible interrelations, offers liberation from categorisations. Interdependent with other ecosystems, collective embodiments have interaction in a perpetual lifestyle-retaining ritual of strength flows. The title, Rivers, Rhythms, Rituals, refers to the dharmic idea of the mind as common consciousness which has no starting nor finish and manifests as a regular electricity transformation. Approaching our require for connection by way of the commons of the online and our primordial interrelationship with the additional-than-human, could prompt us to nurture our contact zones. Commencing wherever we are, we can start off to refine our consciousness towards common kinship.”

In a gesture towards an interconnected, interdependent model consciousness, Jones finds a radical, participatory practice in the type of Self Optimisation, a psilocybin tea looking at which, in her have words, “invites embodied expertise of an on the internet mycelial infrastructure to decolonize hierarchical environment-producing and collectively hallucinate new imaginaries.” Using the same NLP tactics as Beginningless Thoughts, picks from the canonical science fiction of Octavia Butler were being utilized as the spoken input, to which hallucinatory imagery harvested from lookup motor results was matched in a “collective functions of lucid dreaming.” Placed in opposition to the approximated, algorithmic comprehending demonstrated in the original iteration of the work, Self Optimisation appears to be to merge the technological with the organic, combining NLP with psychedelic practical experience to find new neural networks, embodying understanding in the mycelial composition of psilocybin. In the communal ritual of the tea looking through, Jones finds embodied types of know-how that could hint at a much more hopeful long run.

It’s a hopeful follow that relates back again to Rivers, Rhythms, Rituals, which, when it was demonstrated as aspect of The London Open 2022 at Whitechapel Gallery, provided edible, micro-dosing chocolate sculptures, a reference both equally to the exploding psychedelic micro-dosing industry, but also to ritual observe and the concept of devotional choices. “While the mirrored surfaces provide space for self- and entire world-reflection, I’m proposing a gift financial system,” suggests Jones, “an different worth exchange to counteract our dominating programs of economic exchange, and an affective trade to counteract interpersonal associations with transactional character.” By directing the flow of Beginningless Intellect into public rituals and participatory functions, Marija Bozinovska Jones re-situates intelligence as both equally embodied and relational, transcendent of artificial simulation and inseparable from the planetary networks of technological and biological units in just which we are embedded. It is by these methods that we may find responses for Jones’s essential enquiries: how do we know? How do we know that we know? What will make our beliefs justified?

Self Optimisation was originally developed for Mycological Twist’s Myco Tv in solidarity with the Black Lives Subject movement offered at MOSTYN online and at Centrum in Berlin.

Beginningless Intellect (Rivers, Rhythms, Rituals) Credits:

Tunes rating – 33EMYBW and J.G Biberkopf
Choreography – Franka Marlene Foth
Dancers – Janan Laubscher, Camille Jackson, Steph B. Quinci, Dana Pajarillaga, Myriel Welling
Program Development – Jayson Haebich
Voice – Natasha Kerry
Wardrobe – Ottolinger
Set – Studio Lilo

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