scopal affairsTexts
Writing on language, encounters with technology and lived practice.
Essays and practice
These texts offer another way into the works: their experiments, assumptions and consequences.
On menon
Two instances of the same language model question each other. The dialogue accumulates as a spatial graph: repeated thoughts, changes of position, contradictions that remain in view.
At Their Word
A claim is answered with an interpretation of the person making it. Privacy is treated as guilt; disagreement as a symptom. On readings that cannot be corrected by anything their subject says.
Chidakasha: Entering the Participatory Field
During a noisy game with my children, turning inward changed how I took part. A personal account of inner imagery, attention and the contact that remained in the room.
schwellenkarten
80 cards for states, patterns and transitions. To draw, arrange and read. Their arrangement gives what you notice a further context.
Who Asks the Question
A model trained on my paintings returns images I recognise without having painted them. On selection, the work behind a model, and a question that changes through its answer.
The Ownership of Nothing
A copied voice can be authorised and still displace someone else’s work. On consent, control and the relationships that a record can document without replacing.
The Industry of Voice
A proposal needs an outcome before the work has found its subject. On the funding and production conditions that enter the way I think, and the room I want to leave for an experiment.
Art as Proof of Work
Proof of work offers a way to think about effort and recognition in art. The comparison becomes useful where it fails: there is no protocol that can decide whether a work matters.
Staying in the Narrative
A familiar account of ourselves can help us speak and keep us from answering. On the moment when the story survives by editing out what has happened.
The Quiet Loyalty
I have sometimes felt a change in my own life as a betrayal of where I came from. On family loyalties and the bodily experience of holding back.
The Ones Who Move Through You
A part of me wants to act; another wants to stop. On parts, inner voices and changing the way we relate to them.
The Geometry of What Cannot Be Seen
A dimension gives a model another degree of freedom. What changes when we bring that idea into an inquiry about perception? On geometry, Deleuze’s fold, and the limits of the comparison.
Yoga Nidra Sessions
Guided Yoga Nidra recordings on Insight Timer. Attention moves through bodily sensation, emotion and imagery.
Ab Ovo to Medias Res
Painting led me into production design, film and software. The materials changed, as did the kinds of questions I could follow. A personal account of what carried over and what did not.