Begins **
Envelop[ing] memory
Observations of the subtlety of the difference between time and duration and the overlooked are vital to me. They awaken an enormous jolt to systems, a fascination-inducing ripple effect.
There is…
an in-betweenness to the world that drives me.
One such liminal state is the moment between sleep and awake
so swiftly; it happens, in theory, to all of us humans.
Perhaps not all
But there it is,
almost every day,
Yet, it disintegrates before us
as we reach for it and try to explain it,
This is quite something to behold.
For quite some time, I have been thinking about how humans become or are more machine-like and how humans seem to believe machines can be human-like. Maybe a way to be in the world is to think of being more than human and consider our companion species, organic or machine.
I am interested in un/consciousness, especially memory and dreams, the night and the day ones.
In recent human times, quantum has shifted from a thought experiment to practical questioning. The potential of this shift in a relatively short period is inspiring, enabling me to position my thinking about the human as an embodied being navigating the world through perceived limitations of embodiment yet bewildered by the possibility of more, a more-ness that many of us sense but find hard to articulate because we can’t or our vocabulary and language has not caught up with that which touches us all around and elsewhere. The explorations of quantum scientific disciplines, particularly my work with photons and phonons, have helped me give form and function to the sensed and the felt. My interest in photons considers the potential for light to carry information and influence human consciousness, and how phonons can expand on the role of sound in shaping our perception of the world.
I aim to model or diagram planes of experience; this I can only do from the perspectives available to me; my being of mind and embodiment, I endeavour with an openness towards a sharing state. When I say perspectives, I am not sure that this is what they are, but they are the places of experience available for me to work with. I consider the importance of duration and attention to what might be there. Observation of the subtlety of the overlooked is vital to me; subtlety-often can be an enormous jolt to systems, and the ripple effect is fascinating. There is an in-betweenness to the world that drives me; the moment between sleep and awake, for example, is so swift; it happens to all humans. It is there, but almost every day, it disintegrates before all of us if we reach to explain it. That is something to behold, something for us to contemplate as the training of machines and artificial intelligence expands exponentially. Human decisions come from more than the complexity of what can be translated into code. How might a quantum way of thinking help this, such as how could a hypercube be deconstructed rather than thinking of how it forms? The dimensionality of that space is something we engage each day, I think, in the ways that we create meaning and how we re-remember.
Laaraa
Based in London, Laaraa is a quasi-disciplinary artist who works with generative audiovisuals, sound, machine learning/AI, video, painting, drawing, writing, and installation. A fascination with the intricacies of human connections to the body and the complexity of memory drives a curiosity that considers the relationship of humans and materiality to time, space, and technology. Through her practice, Lara is interested in aspects of existence and how our interactions with others, space, time, and environment shape our experiences.