For the fifth iteration of the I Should Be Doing Something Else Right Now series, Marija Bozinovska Jones presents Beginningless Mind, a three-fold audio-visual narrative, which interacts in real time with search engines using natural language processing to decipher today's ordering of knowledge. Featuring music by 33EMYBW and J.G Biberkopf and software developed by Jayson Haebich, the work examines the flowing process of interconnectedness.
Beginningless Mind follows life on Earth where energy and information unwind cosmic law from order to disorder, and where the earthling is the youngest, yet most detrimental species.
The audio-visual trilogy observes a (post)colonial symbiosis of nature and culture harvesting Wikipedia as knowledge commons. Scalable timeframes explore earthy life from its early imaginings to live satellite imaging. The worldmaking produced by remote sensing of scientific apparatus is queered with ancient systems of beliefs. The threefold narrative considers planetary kinship as a visceral sense of interdependence, grounded in terrestrial breathing patterns and how other ecosystems' (plants, animals, earth elements) breath is mirrored in our own.
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