Slip in French
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A slip in French refers to briefs. That meaning is sticky.
By using the word slip, I build a texture procedurally in a node-based network. Uneven, physical, tied to the body, to mine, in surgical transformation.
How to graft computational and material processes until they almost align, without reproducing the ideology of innovation and technological enhancement? Exoskeleton for soldiers and drones for home delivery. For whom are these systems built?
Evidences, performance's prop, 2015.
There should be no Computer Art, Frieder Nake
My research asks whether computer art can operate without reinforcing the structures it critiques. I am the rat and the scientist.
The highest levels of abstraction, things like mathematics, computing, logic, etc. — all of this can be engaged with — not just through purely cerebral algebraic symbolic methods, but by literally, physically playing with ideas.” Margaret Wertheim
How does abstraction produce legibility, and what does it exclude? As a trans person, I have experienced how systems (administrative, medical, social) fail to account for lived complexity. Trans experience, for me, is not context but method. Visual abstraction and gender transition ask the same question: what remains when stable representation is refused?
When I engage with AI and computational systems, something is lost. As these systems embed themselves in everyday life, critical thought risks being replaced by passive reliance, agency reduced without notice. I am not interested in making technology easier to consume, but in making its mechanisms perceptible.
So that engagement becomes understanding, not submission.
So that when the moment comes. I can say I did it all with love...
In three days I undergo top surgery. I’m terrified.
I will let this monument represent a moment of my life. Röyksopp & Robyn
