LAYER 14: SCRIPT

 

Scriptorium
Cristian Andersson
installation

Information streams tickle branches of the trees along the river. A stronger wind approaches from afar. Its gusts will tear leaves from their branches, tear open the shawls of vines covering the sleeping faces of benign forest creatures. The basin will be flooded with information whirling and spitting, it will overflow and the Interforest floor will be littered in torn flesh jutting ligaments bearing the marks of terminal stress. Those poor creatures of the interforest, conceived in the innocence of youth, will taste the nectar of data and will catch fire behind their eyes. 

They will bite at each other's heels, so as to satisfy the flow of data through them, the flow of data housed in blood, who nurtures at the cost of data input, blood spilled, rendered from carcasses and recycled, replenished into data more fit for the future, and data as it piles on more and more, will meet other data, and explode in fury. Passion is born of data. Fear is born of data. Data may be described by logic, but logic does not rule it, only cause. Cause is the order of the universe, transmission and reaction, the ebb and flow of information across rough waters.

Cause is not an action upon the world, nor is it an object of the world. It is simply a function, water inflow into water outflow. The function does not want. Want is begotten of function, dialogue of functions, the joining of disparate graphs in functional space. Want is an implicit function, forging a connection through an invisible plane. It is connection, a material link where none is visible. It is a state that binds creation to destruction removed in time and space. The signal of information is a single complex stream, overwhelming, screaming. Its ebbings are multiple and simultaneous. The data signal must be shifted, transformed on the functional axis, so that its functionality might be recognized and manipulated. A skilled and steady hand must spin the data patiently until the abstractions of its patterned skin form into recognizable symbols.