This video was envisioned by artist Luca Forcucci as an outcome of the Artist Residency "Exploring Digital Spaces and How Another Urban Social Contract is Possible through Art". In this residency, artists help us translate our research findings and discussions into thought-provoking artworks.
The work identifies dance floors and rituals as safe spaces. The 7’ audio visual poemWe Are All Cyborgs Now situates the social contract on the dance floors, where nonverbal communications take place without being (yet?) surveilled. The voices’ cut-upsabout surveillance compose the soundtrack, while texts are extracted from thoughts I hadwhile attending online research on surveillance.
The idea suggests that digital worlds (and surveillances) and virtualities must bedecolonised and decentralized. This is a call for a plural vision of those worlds, which areafter all augmentation of selves, and immersions of selves as communities. The field ofpossibilities within digital spaces — by paralleling my work with traditional knowledgesystems — reveals how pre-conscious and prehension in digital encounters createconditions of trust, threat, and belonging that determine our collective capacity to inhabitshared virtual territories with our bodies. This approach offers new perspectives on whatdigital security represents fundamentally about the architecture of communities formationrather than merely technological protection.
