Watering a Computer

Preview of When WE Love

Contesting natural metaphors & extractive tendencies in the 'poetic web'; where machines might be more human with new ambient & atmospheric fictions.

2024–
Multi-modal project/research in development

Watering a Computer (tentative title) is a project series concepted to contest the 'digital garden' and adjacent metaphors. In a reality of drought, excess, and exploitation – the archipelago (the flooded body) wonders if those who labor to become machines might be more human instead.

Sometimes, the metaphors are used to build ecologies. Other times, they are destroyed...

Making essays, workshops, tools, performances, computers-as-flowers, etc.