echoes of a lost language

 

synthax error relic

 

riddim null

 

metanoia

 

resonanta errata

 

cryptoscratch

 

enter the untitled i

 

enter the untitled ii

 

enter the untitled iii

 

cadentia fracta

 

cartesian burst

 

andante corrupto i

 

andante corrupto ii

 

hei hoi remix

 

liquid samizdat

 

mental reconstruction

 

progress regress

 

decoded breakbeat

sotto distorto

 

void file

 

waves of noise

 

waves of noise ii

 

allegro glitchando

 

grid entity // phantom topology

 

exhibition view

 

the semionaut often mixes the rigour and neutrality of post-conceptual art practices with something we might call an errorism of cyborg brainwaves. partial erasure of operation diagrams, break-beat of decoded images, trust in noise, blind following of logics of text leading to meta-meanings and blanks are the main notions at operation. nevertheless here the notion of psychedelic glitches comes to play both in itself, like a manifest and in relation to the work of a certain soviet-time estonian avant-garde underground artworks based on concrete poetry which have been mutated, scratched and thus make to live a second life

psychedelia as a critical cognitive technology oriented towards manipulating our pattern recognition into hallucinatory experience. from one side bringing back the human touch into anonymous data- flows and machine-like patterns by scratching them, these works pose a further philosophical question concerning normalcy – the problem really is if we can call the code of mechanistic pre-ordered world normal in itself or rather repressive. instead, in the latter case, normal is the world where the control over Imaginary sphere slowly slips away and sets loose the lacanian Real. in melting away of letters into liquid signifiers and fractals the breakthrough of Real starts to relativise our rational mindset. the haunting ghosts are thus given the floor by data-bending the pre-existing rigid patterns until they start to tell their own story despite of the outcome of the more philosophical questions better to be let open in this case

the other option in manipulating the data-flows is to control the input filter, leaving us with the outcome of morbidly mechanistic images. somewhat magic and mantralike repetitions of words, letters and punctuation marks lead to melting away of all the intrinsic narratives. the annihilation of dominant and hieratic relations is once again forming an estranged choir of the void