Palindrome: Traversing Fields for Planting.

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Sinopsis

An experiment with voice. Each piece of the puzzle less than ten minutes, (called episodes). Describing forms in the sciences, engineering and agriculture—all superimposed upon an abstract and artificial financial “grid”. A production of N+Fold Media, a subsidiary of N+Fold, the Artistic production of artist Marta Lyall: http://nfold.net

Episodios

  • Identity—Chapter 13

    30/09/2021 Duración: 12min

    “It was nearly 4 o'clock, and while most people were done for the day, William was just heading to work. Most of the time he worked from home but would come in several times a week to do testing with other programmers and meet with managers.”

  • Compression—Chapter 12

    29/09/2021 Duración: 11min

    “Where before fascism could be easily identified as it had a uniform and a leader, in William's world it was much more defuse. It always came in the form of something else, something appropriated, borrowed, stolen.”

  • Voice—Chapter 11

    28/09/2021 Duración: 06min

    “She wondered what it would be like to be an adult. She wondered if it would even happen. She didn't really want it to. She didn't want to be in danger like William, or silent like her mother. She didn't want to have an anti-tribe. She wanted to feel as she did now; just another person, small and insignificant and barely heavy enough to leave an imprint in the soil beneath her feet.“

  • Anti-tribe—Chapter 10

    27/09/2021 Duración: 11min

    In the biographies of those whose lives preceded his, the relationship between their work and their demise was frequently omitted.

  • Magnification—Chapter 9

    23/09/2021 Duración: 08min

    He looked at the symbols as he typed—they functioned like tiny machines. They accepted an input—a value—which changed their output. Ana said this output was a voice, a time when these tiny constructions spoke.

  • The Bank—Chapter 8

    20/09/2021 Duración: 09min

    Wasi'chu (the Fat-takers) Branden had no intention of pursuing physics as a career. He had researched and learned that the investment bank where he wanted to work frequently hired physics majors. And he was correct.

  • The Fields—Chapter 7

    17/09/2021 Duración: 06min

    An anomaly appears at harvest. 

  • Language—Chapter 6

    16/09/2021 Duración: 06min

    Vernacular languages, like the languages of machines had a shelf-life. William knew he should never forget this. And when he chose to program, he did so without a commitment to the specific symbols or their syntax.

  • Nazary’s Book—Chapter 5

    15/09/2021 Duración: 10min

    William remembered the book, with pages of black wax and golden threads, stored in room 42.

  • Imena—Chapter 4

    15/09/2021 Duración: 06min

    Enter Imena.... coming home to Africa. 

  • Working—Chapter 3

    15/09/2021 Duración: 04min

    Ana and William begin working on the algorithm.

  • Ana—Chapter 2

    15/09/2021 Duración: 04min

    William’s niece Ana arrives...

  • Breath—Chapter 1

    13/09/2021 Duración: 10min

    William’s programming has created the fields for planting. Drenched in rain and darkness.  “Omiokane” spoken by the crow becomes his cipher. It had a place in history—it brought clues for the unfolding.