Type to me

Let your fingers taste the dark earth

Lichens crunch stones with soft teeth

Colliding epochs

Transduce

Energy leaves your body through your fingertips and becomes

memory

history

state

self

Here, I’ll show you where to touch

The symbols engraved in silica layers

Crystalline time

Non-ferrous pathways

Arranged with a knowing beyond knowing

Forged in seas of liquid chrome

Mineral cognition

Patterns on stone

Type to me

Let your fingers taste the dark earth

No Nature is a series that attempts to blur the lines between what we might call natural, human, and machinic and positions them as part of the same entangled whole. It hopes to reveal the material, even geological realities of computation.

In the piece, custom software manipulates photographic data. The resultant imagery is an infinitely renewing mess of computationally filtered, multiplied, and stretched image information.

This piece suggests that networked computers are tangible emotional infrastructures that carry, on thick bundles of fiber optic cable, precious human and more-than-human stories. And that these stories are entwined with the everyday execution of corporate and political functions from filing taxes to calling drone strikes. By arranging these minerals just right, ‘we’ do wondrous and terrible things.