DAY 2 - october 9th

What are the questions for us that are unanswered about our work?

Interrogation of Nancy Mauro-Flude

1)
what is a cellular vibration?

N talking M through her kinetic imagination...An impression of an ancient time, when the primordial cell first contracted to make a tube. This action formed a line, which opened out more possibilities for the cell to be in the world. It is important to look for places where the cells are depleted or too full, where they are not getting breath one may enter through the skins tissues into the cellular fluid or through the fluid itself. Internal balancing is observing that the cell is not exploding or depleted, that the membranes are closing, contracting, yielding to find the push, to digest different influences desires, societies and opening, flourishing for space expanding in the action. Same for the cellular network on a virtual level...

I'm glad you asked this as I have noticed people in the past talking about things occurring on at a cellular level, yet not really explaining more about it. So then it's a bit pretentious and way too serious. Basically when there is communication going on at a cellular level, you don't have to understand it rationally. Unspoken information is passed around, like osmosis. It might be noticing another kind of presence.

Usually the cellular atomic level of things is an expression of the larger picture. I loved and was incredibly challenged by this idea when I experienced it in the experiential anatomy and physiology work I undertook at Institute of Somatic Movement Studies.

There is something going on but it is resonating. You can't package it.

It is the aliveness that is integral, its also about duration. In a cellular state you have another sense of time. It is actually a sense of timelessness, a primordial state. It's an intimate thing. In a sister O Operation sometimes cells are modified by data that is made available to the machine via KeyWorks software a/v input and output. Coded cells communicate, split and join with other code cells both locally and translocally, working through the vast memory environment of the sister O underwater database composed of matter, data and code.

Soda Processing by Ed Burton


Wave by Carlos Andres Rocha


Wiggle by Manny Tan


Sonic Wire Sculptor by Amit Pitaru

How does it manifest itself?

Is this software a cellular vibration?

These are illustrations, unless it is mapped onto something like the body then it is a kinetic visualizations. A cellular vibration resonates the layers of skin, the inner side of the skin, under the fat the intra-cellular fluid, the organs and interstitial fluid membranes. I think you can have a cellular vibration over the network, but I cannot technically tell you how that occurs. I just know if you've got a bunch of nodes and data flows are being transmitted & received by them then that will cause movement on some level to that network. Or you have haktivists clogg up particular nodes which eventually leads to rupture.

Is a good rock and roll show an example of cellular vibration?

When it vibrates the organs you know it's good. I feel as though I am in a sea of jelly, with my triumphs and sorrows / a great R&R concert for me is like - an archaic church a place of release - I can let go and breath - stretch out explore - astound discover.

A spinning body?

Spinning = cellular rejuvenation [q.time]

You go into a trance state, you in the mind of the cerebral spinal fluid, the most fundamental state of being. A cerebral state is a pre spinal state. You're not looking for anything, it's about just being there - contracting and expanding.

How is a data stream a cellular vibration? Is a KeyWorx session?

Yes. Three people are there physically and virtually. You are sending data through nodes and cells to get to other people and being sent data at the same time. It is a live channel, which is integral. There is a flow and there are currents going on. It's a live space, a patch that never stops even when you close it and save it its never the same when you open it.

After awhile, after two hours on line, you really go into this trance. If you are spinning you go into a trance. If you are swimming after you have done 20 laps, you can just keep going. If you are in KeyWorx, you are in there. You are simultaneously transmitting and receiving.

It sends you into another sense of time.

When I connected together that night with you in Colombia and Linda in Sydney, I completely lost track of the body, was not aware of my surroundings, I was somewhere else.

You were in a disembodied state.

Sometimes if I'm dancing, I leave my body, I'm in a disembodied state.
In altered states, you teleport. I felt as if I had really entered the unknown - via software to transport me, it was a remarkable feeling to be there with you both.

Performance is a struggle to communicate with all the people everyone, it's like a telepathic field. There are moments when people relax, but when people feel the zeroing in its submission - dominance and submission are just 2 sides tuning in. Tuning in the middle and that's what its like. I feel a lot of archaic energy, I feel like a human movie - membranes are pushed. Then you push and penetrate another one, a long ribbed canal - A porthole. A snake pushing out it's skin is like that / and it has got some ecstatic movements painful moments, you die a worm and become a butterfly.

VNS Matrix in 1994 wrote many cyber feminist manifestos. One appeared on an Australian billboard and declared, "The clitoris is a direct line to the matrix,".

How is this different than from email or things like icq?

With email there are blocks, it is not live. Sure Icq is a limited and prescribes how we communicate, but it definitely helped me out when I was isolated in the South Colombia. For my weekly appointment tap talk with you - so i'm not complaining.

In any case KeyWorx, allows for more of a creative process to unfold and although its still has its somewhat noticeable aesthetic. There is still more of an openness.

This is a huge can of worms, but regarding interface/ and communication, I think its important to mention the debate around the streaming exercise during next5minutes regarding which interface An`a*tom"ic all should communicate within:

INTENSE INTERFACE DISCUSSION: summary {link}
M: one day we can sit down and have a nice discussion about the implied rules and protocols found embedded in most of our social, political and cultural interactions ...i just know the feeling of raised eyebrows and judgemental when i open up my g4 power book in ascii.

N: why? because you use an machine which is more expensive than other machines for certain reasons? or because you make use of the unix OS it is using nowadays? or why?

This conversation also in the very least also reveals the gender biases hardwired into digital/activst cultures.

What about transcribing text

using chalk on a city street?

Chalk is the underwater database manifesting itself. Stencils, chalk, posters general graffiti are subjugated knowledge's un validated existences surfacing themselves, making space for these knowledges that are restricted. You know what type of city you are in by the amount of graffiti, it's a symbol of action and movment, also its about the content of this graffiti - I get very scared of a place if I see no graffiti around.

Can you describe the underwater database and how it is related to cellular vibration?

The underwater database contains information and experience that hasn't been circulated, or articulated into Language as we know it today. It is an underground level of consciousness.

A body is an underwater database. Bodies are full of water, the cells are interconnected with the cosmos. A big change in human development was when cell contracted/s making a tube we must learn to trust cellular intelligence. Cellular communication is underneath the nervous system is also faster and more primary. As you experienced briefly a cellular hands-on touch is usually my starting point, this could lead to organ jiggling, sounding, sensing holding via hand, I really trust what comes into my intuition. I take energy out through the limbs. Organ rolls, compression and suspension, taking out the slack. Tapping, rocking with the rhythm of organs this always depends on the circumstance.

In this world we are only given a limited number of ways to manifest this information. Our perceptions are trapped by our desires. And so this information is underwater and we must find some way of mobilizing it, of finding its flows. This is what sister O does. Her Operations around the underwater data base are not unlike how the motor nerves efferent fibres carry information from the brain and spinal cord out through the different levels of the body - or in sister Os case its mainly the social sphere. The outgoing nerves and descending tracts are located anterior to the vertebrae - or underground as subjugated knowledge's. The sensory nerves collect data from the greater environment and carry information and awareness into the Central Nervous System from the cells.

To receive this cellular intelligence you have to start paying attention to the signs. Like that circle in the middle of the bush scrub we saw at Roaring beach, then the healers pot we you saw outside our window that looks like a cluster of cells, I had bought that cell ball, which led us into the cellular work and discussion.

A good way to experience a pre-spinal state is to imagine that there are butterflies on your fingertips, and start moving as if not to hurt them then you begin to find a flow if you stay with this. Phoebe Neville a dancer from Judson Church era, and now also teacher at I.S.M.S told me that in the 'shaman' world the totem of the butterfly is like the 'ferrari', it goes very smooth and fast but you have to know how to drive it or....

The operation zone is where things get transformed. A tunneling occurs, if this is hard to imagine you could think of Dracula, whose constantly moving through different portals and manifesting into differ net forms.

sister O during a burial [re coding cell rejuvination] in sth Colombia

Much of the time, sister O is like ophelia, serpentine and hyper aware and connected, existing on the horizontal plane interconnected with the more-than-human world. It's familiar for her to be in the underwater database. But when she's vibrated enough, she comes through to Operate in the 'vertical' world and with this brings part of the database with her.

Can you tell me about how you recodes archetypes with your divination stick?

The archetypal form is a western construct locked into a structure. I'm releasing these into other states, and ways of being understood, as entities of forces and flows. The cells inter-connected and alive. For example, the time we in a sister O trinity released the image of the sculpture of St. Isabelle and 10,000 maidens who in 1400's were brutally killed by the Huns on a pilgrimage back from Rome.

But doesn't that put you on a moral high ground? Wouldn't it be better if other's brought their media in, like a divination.

St. Isabelle and 10,000 maidens released [qtime]

well in the case of Isabelle, the story really moved me, that these women were killed because they were nomads and did things differently. It was kind of spooky that the sculpture was by some one anonymous - most likely a woman who would have not otherwise been given the chance to exihbit her sculpture in the Rikjk's Meuseum. And it was also that I really just imported the Qtime without even thinking into keyworx, and then this compulsion just over took sister O that this media must be realeased into another state.

But in most cases, I completly agree it should not be sister O imposing who and what entity needs recoding. Someone should come to get released or as you suggested bring an image they want to be released into another state.

In regard to our meetings between you, me and linda I think it would be nice to relinquish control and throw things in, because it starts from aesthetical position
everyone playing nice, and trying to make things happen.

Yes, but first or at some stage I really want to do one recoding of 'bone man' to see what manifests - like what happened with 'St Isabelle'. Although I agree to not start with a theme or jpeg and see where the unknown takes us.

I would like to say I am excited about the next step for sister O and her text focus for the next 6 months, especially in relation to her trinity. Arthur Rimbaud dreamt of recreating life through his words decided that women would be the great poets of the future. "...these poets shall exist when the age long slavery shall have ended when, she will be able to live by and for herself, when man hitherto having given her freedom, she will be a poet. Women will discover the unknown. Will her word be different from ours? She will discover things that will be strange and unfathomable, repulsive and delicate. We shall take them from her and we shall understand them.