{"id":39265,"date":"2023-11-22T16:32:15","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T15:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/?p=39265"},"modified":"2023-12-14T18:01:45","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T17:01:45","slug":"alteks-nglitcholalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/alteks-nglitcholalia\/","title":{"rendered":"ALTeks: NGLitcholalia"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"project":[451,849,850],"project_type":[817,725,732,743],"class_list":["post-39265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","project-web-residencies","project-calls-2023","project-algorithmic-poetry","project_type-web-residencies","project_type-formats","project_type-interview","project_type-themes"],"acf":{"bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","custom_color_css_variable":"","content_type":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content_img","acfe_flexible_layout_title":"Bild(er)","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":10,"img_gallery":false,"img":[39272],"img_gallery_format":false},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_cta","acfe_flexible_layout_title":"Link \/ Call-to-Action","bgcolor":"has-bg-grey","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":6,"cta_link":{"type":"url","value":"https:\/\/webresidencies.akademie-solitude.de\/alteks-nglitcholalia","title":"","target":false},"cta_txt":"ALTeks: NGLitcholalia ","cta_button_txt":"Visit the Web Residency Project "},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","acfe_flexible_layout_title":"Text","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"<blockquote>\u00bbI began the project because I felt that I didn\u2019t have a full grasp of how the African diaspora thinks about science and technology.\u00ab<\/blockquote>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: 'Maison Neue';\">Jazmina Figueroa:<\/span> What does <em>ALTeks: NGLitcholalia<\/em> express, and how does it continue your ongoing exploration into sound as a search engine and the embodiment of words?<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: 'Maison Neue';\">Sherese Francis:<\/span> The project is called <em>ALTeks: NGLitcholalia<\/em> and it\u2019s a radio broadcast series of six broadcasts. Each broadcast is titled with a word that I created for myself, and through each broadcast I collaborate with the search engine to look up various possible meanings of what that word could signify.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For example, the first broadcast is titled<em> NGLitcholalia,<\/em> where I split NGLitcholalia into parts:\u00a0 \u00bbNGL,\u00ab \u00bbglitch,\u00ab and then the \u00bblalia\u00ab \u2013 which stems from the word \u00bbglossolalia.\u00ab I do the research for each broadcast by using a search engine of those three parts that make up the word, <em>NGLitcholalia, <\/em>and with the results I come up with a network system of \u00bbmeanings\u00ab for myself that I read throughout the broadcast accompanied by musical sounds and other references that I felt resonated with the search results. The broadcast is also a way to connect other meanings of this word, for me. That\u2019s basically what the broadcast series was about.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: 'Maison Neue';\">Jazmina:<\/span> To situate this new work within the framework of your practice, I would like to know about the central idea behind your previous and ongoing project <em>KwaNTum,<\/em> and how you associate that with knowledge-making through Black and Afro-diasporic poetics.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: 'Maison Neue';\">Sherese:<\/span> I pronounce it,<em> | kw\u00e4 | en | t\u0259m |<\/em> and I know when people read it, they would expect it to be pronounced as quantum. <i><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/the-operating-system\/field-notes-kwantum-the-question-is-the-response-of-the-di-vine-part-1-d4594379f960\">KwaNTum<\/a><\/i> is a poetic project about Black Afro-diasporic ways of knowing and knowledge-making, and its different spelling and pronunciation is more about sound, how we pronounce things, and how different pronunciations can affect the meaning of things as well. This work is based on my interests in Afrofuturism, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/person\/black-quantum-futurism\/\">Black Quantum Futurism<\/a>, The Black Speculative Arts Movement<sup class=\"is-footnote\">1<\/sup>, and of course, some of my favorite music artists, like Parliament Funkadelic, had a huge influence on how I thought about [the philosophy of] science, music, specifically, Black music. I was fascinated by how they would string words together to create new meanings in their songs.<\/p>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_video","acfe_flexible_layout_title":"Video \/ Film","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"video_embed":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bZ5kYQ112l8","video":{"video_mp4":null,"video_webm":null}},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","acfe_flexible_layout_title":"Text","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"<p class=\"is-size-6\">Aqua Boogie (A Psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadoloop): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bZ5kYQ112l8\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bZ5kYQ112l8<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I began the project because I felt that I didn\u2019t have a full grasp of how the African diaspora thinks about science and technology. I know a bit about this from an US-American perspective, but I wanted a broader understanding beyond my context. I was researching various Black thinkers, past and present, aligned with my thinking about how science and technology are understood from a Black and African diasporic perspective. I then wrote poetic responses to this body of research, which then turned into more interdisciplinary practices like <em>ALTeks \u2013 <\/em>an object assemblage that functions as Anansi\u2019s<sup class=\"is-footnote\">2<\/sup> digitation time device and altarpiece with speakers \u2013 inspired by my Caribbean heritage and the sound system culture emerging from the Caribbean. An interesting layer to the work was that the company that made the speakers, Altec Lansing, created the first synchronized sound technology used in film for the 1927 release of <em>The Jazz Singer<sup class=\"is-footnote\">3<\/sup>. <\/em>That was an interesting synchronicity, like the technologies associated with sound and music history.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019m a poet and I think a lot about language and sound, which eventually led me to think about doing a radio broadcast.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: 'Maison Neue';\">Jazmina:<\/span> Can you explain the significance of the <em>ReVer(b)sions Lab<\/em> in the development of your theory on resonance and its connection to knowledge-making through language, words, and sounds?<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: 'Maison Neue';\">Sherese: <\/span>I did the <em>ReVer(b)sions Lab<\/em> with the Lewis Latimer House Museum in Queens, New York. The reason why I wanted to do that wasn't just because Lewis Latimer was a Black inventor and poet, but also because I thought it was interesting to think about the filament that he worked with for the light bulb and how the filament could represent a kind of stringing together of connections and ideas that eventually leads to a kind of enlightenment.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The reason why I called it <em>ReVer(b)sions Lab<\/em> was also playing with the idea that the word and verb have the same root. The word \u00bbreversion\u00ab is rooted in the idea of something turning or twisting around and reverberating, a vibration, and [as a visual], I came to this idea of a <em>web<\/em>, as being related to that sort of vibration. I see it as this thread that\u2019s being connected through a network and then sound is vibrating through that network.<\/p>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_video","acfe_flexible_layout_title":"Video \/ Film","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"video_embed":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mtu9iUx6b74","video":{"video_mp4":null,"video_webm":null}},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","acfe_flexible_layout_title":"Text","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"<p class=\"is-size-6\">ReVer(b)sions Lab with Sherese Francis: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mtu9iUx6b74.\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mtu9iUx6b74.<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Specifically for <em>ReVer(b)sions Lab<\/em>, I was thinking of how we can create new ways of thinking about communication systems. How we communicate science and knowledge, and how we can perceive those things differently. We can look at the roots of words with the roots of history, different histories, to think about the ways that knowledge [is accumulated] differently.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>ReVer(b)sions Lab<\/em> was about me thinking about how my art is more of a process than a finished piece. I use <em>ReVer(b)sions Lab<\/em> as a way to interact with other people, gain new knowledge, and expand knowledge based on collectivity. My practice is a process of collaboration, through conversation. All words lead us into conversation, as in the network system of meaning among us all.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: 'Maison Neue';\">Jazmina:<\/span> You've already started to explain what your aims are for this web residency with, <em>ALTeks: NGLitcholalia<\/em>. What does <em>Glitch-olalia<\/em> represent in connection to the word \u00bbglossolalia\u00ab? And how do you incorporate glossolalia into this series of broadcasts?<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: 'Maison Neue';\">Sherese:<\/span> I grew up in a Pentecostal church, and in Pentecostalism, there\u2019s an emphasis on speaking in tongues. Speaking in tongues is when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, you start speaking in a language that is not known to anybody else, and it\u2019s considered a divine language.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When I started researching speaking in tongues, I found out there was a word for it called \u00bbglossolalia.\u00ab And then, of course, I love etymology, and looking at the roots of words, I looked up glossolalia and found out the \u00bbgloss\u00ab has to do with the tongue, and \u00bb-lalia\u00ab has to do with speaking.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the first broadcast, I delve deeper into this concept, but I also play around with the potential for other meanings in some parts of the word. So, \u00bb-lalia\u00ab might be connected to ululation<sup class=\"is-footnote\">4<\/sup>. In a lot of cultures throughout Africa, they would ululate as a kind of praise song.<\/p>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_video","acfe_flexible_layout_title":"Video \/ Film","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":6,"video_embed":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=srx5lN7wSBM","video":{"video_mp4":null,"video_webm":null}},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","acfe_flexible_layout_title":"Text","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"<p class=\"is-size-6\">Video description: An Egyptian woman ululates after having cast her vote in the 2014 Egyptian presidential elections. Date: 27 May 2014. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=srx5lN7wSBM\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=srx5lN7wSBM<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I was thinking of \u00bb-lalia\u00ab speaking with people ululating or <em>la-la-la-la-ing<\/em> their tongue. I didn\u2019t know the term \u00bbglossolalia\u00ab before, but I started making connections like with Hallelujah, for example, and thinking about how the \u00bbla-la-la-la,\u00ab ululating, became an important sound throughout many cultures and why.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With \u00bbgloss,\u00ab I was playing with that part of the word and realized how it sounds similar to \u00bbglitch.\u00ab The tongue is slippery in the sense that there is a slipperiness of language, which is how we create so many words and languages. Speaking in tongues, for me, represents the human [aspiration] to express and create language.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<blockquote>\u00bbFor me, sound is multiplicitous. There\u2019s plenty of information and data on the possibilities of sound and the way dominant Western culture thinks about language and writing.\u00ab<\/blockquote>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: 'Maison Neue';\">Jazmina:<\/span> When you think of sound as a search engine, what does <em>ALTeks: NGLitcholalia<\/em> mean concerning the body, and the poetics of language, and how does this series of broadcasts continue the exploration of sound as a search engine alongside the embodiment of words?<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: 'Maison Neue';\">Sherese:<\/span> For me, sound is multiplicitous. There\u2019s plenty of information and data on the possibilities of sound and the way dominant Western culture thinks about language and writing. We tend to think about language and how it sounds in fixed ways, where there has to be this kind of linear thought about language. Etymologies reinforce linear thinking of language, however, this doesn\u2019t speak to how humans use language, i.e. through constant migrating, speaking with various people, and as a result, there\u2019s not a simple direct lineage [of a word and its root].<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sound as a search engine is thinking about it in a kind of similar way to Kamau Brathwaite\u2019s<sup class=\"is-footnote\">5<\/sup> ideas of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nts.live\/editorial\/tidalectics\">tidalectics<\/a><sup class=\"is-footnote\">6<\/sup>.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s more about a flow of language, different influences, confluences, and information impacting and coming into what the meaning of a word is and how it sounds and how you pronounce it. So, there isn\u2019t necessarily a correct way to pronounce a word and that can bring about different meanings attached to the word as well.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The embodiment of words also comes into ways people embody a word because of the ways someone interprets how a word is supposed to be read or pronounced depends on who they are, where they are, what kind of accents they speak, and who they\u2019re in conversation with, how they heard the word or didn\u2019t hear the word.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sometimes people read words they have never heard, so they pronounce them as they think, and later, when they hear someone else say the word, they may change their pronunciation. Is there a wrong pronunciation? That is how they assumed it\u2019s pronounced. I am thinking about the ways different bodies say words and what those meanings occur in different bodies and, to me, that a more accurate way of thinking about language and meaning \u2013 beyond a distinctive sense of definition, or the root of this word, or its correct pronunciation. Sound and search engines are a useful way to think about how you can use sound as information and that information is endless. There\u2019s endless data to pull into language, sound, and poetry.<\/p>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_img","acfe_flexible_layout_title":"Bild(er)","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":6,"img_gallery":false,"img":[39274],"img_gallery_format":false},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","acfe_flexible_layout_title":"Text","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: 'Maison Neue';\">Jazmina:<\/span> Like a process of de-institutionalizing language, how meaning emerges from processes of re-pronunciation, mispronunciation, or intended pronunciations of a word. This relates to the trickster character used in your work, through subversive uses of language. What is the significance of referencing the West African spider trickster, Anansi, in the <em>ALTeks<\/em> series, and how does it connect to this project\u2019s themes?<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: 'Maison Neue';\">Sherese:<\/span> Anansi, typically a trickster figure, embodies a sense of fluidity and shape-shifting that truly represents the essence of life and nature. As someone who identifies as non-binary, I find a strong connection with trickster characters, as they mirror my own fluidity. I view language in the same fluid way.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anansi\u2019s representation as a spider resonates with me. When I researched spiders, I discovered that their webs function as an extended tool of their bodies, almost like an extension of their cognition. They use their webs to navigate and think, similar to how we use language, as an extension of our own cognition. Just as spider webs can be destroyed, and spiders have to rework them, language also undergoes changes and shifts, leading us to rework our language networks and think differently about concepts and ideas. I like to use the Anansi as a dynamic representation of language evolution, as it encapsulates this ever-changing nature of language and thought.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: 'Maison Neue';\">Jazmina:<\/span> Now that we\u2019ve come to the topic of the network, how does the project gather and network through what you termed \u00bbcall-ins\u00ab and the meditation on a <em>(key)word<\/em>? And what role would you like communication to play in crafting the network within this project?<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: 'Maison Neue';\">Sherese:<\/span> I might not be able to include call-ins at the end of this residency, but I hope to do so in the future as the project evolves. Growing up in the Pentecostal church, I understand the importance of call and response, and this is a central part of the practice. I want people to join in and respond because I don\u2019t have all the answers, and I value learning from others when people participate in the broadcast and share their thoughts.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For example, in the <em>ReVer(b)sions Lab<\/em>, my co-host Roxy brought up an interesting point. I was talking about the word \u00bbfilament\u00ab and its root, \u00bb*gwhi-.\u00ab<sup class=\"is-footnote\">7<\/sup> Roxy mentioned that in Mandarin, the sound is also associated with the word for \u00bbmelon.\u00ab This connection sparked my poetic imagination, considering the idea of \u00bbstringing a melon\u00ab or \u00bbstringing a gourd,\u00ab given the similarity of sounds. These insights are important to my poetic practice, allowing me to actually initiate a weaving process where you\u2019re constantly making connections to other things and expanding, and asking what relations can be? We tend to think of relations in this kind of superficial or singular idea of a relation [between two things], but there are many possibilities for relations and connections.<\/p>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At a later stage, I hope to facilitate call-ins where people can add their voices to the broadcast and it creates this kind of larger chorus and network of meaning beyond just myself as the singular definitive source.<\/span>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_img","acfe_flexible_layout_title":"Bild(er)","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":10,"img_gallery":false,"img":[39365],"img_gallery_format":false},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","acfe_flexible_layout_title":"Text","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: 'Maison Neue';\">Jazmina:<\/span> Can you describe, from a more technical perspective, how the sound recordings will be interconnected or interwoven into these broadcasts? Based on what was mentioned regarding the practice of the broadcast, how are the broadcasts in this work organized thematically?<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: 'Maison Neue';\">Sherese:<\/span> The website that I\u2019m creating during this residency, with the technical assistance of Grayson Earle, has a landing page with the broadcast kind of floating around in space. This is where I was thinking about the possibility of adding in the call-ins, they can be floating around together sharing that [digital] space. Another idea was that I would make broadcasts and interweave the call-ins with my recordings, so that I could respond to the call-ins, and weave them into a larger body of work, expanding the network, and making cloud systems of call-ins and responses.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The six broadcasts represent different words, the first one I already talked about is <em>NGLitcholalia<\/em>. The second one is <em>(E)Dub<\/em>. The third one is <em>KwaNTum<\/em>. The fourth one is <em>NDigiTale<\/em> and then the fifth one is<em>AlKyMatics<\/em> and the last one is <em>AlKyM\/oRG<\/em>.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When you listen to the broadcast, you hear me break each word into pieces, almost like I\u2019m doing chemistry. I look at the possible sound roots of each of those words that I created and the possible roots and meanings of those.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For instance, take the word \u00bb(E)Dub.\u00ab I\u2019ve been looking into the history of dub music and exploring other words that sound similar. What many people may not realize is that in Hebrew, the word for \u00bbword\u00ab is \u00bbdabar.\u00ab So, there\u2019s a potential connection between \u00bbdub\u00ab and \u00bbdabar.\u00ab In the Egyptian language, I think of \u00bbdub\u00ab with \u00bbdbt,\u00ab used to describe an archive or a sarcophagus for holding relics and information.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I was also referencing the connection between dub music and Rastafarianism. Rastafarianism draws influence from Ethiopia, and if you say \u00bbEthiopia\u00ab with a different accent, it almost sounds like \u00bbE-Dub-ia.\u00ab I\u2019ve been playing with this idea throughout the podcast series, as I discuss various possible connections and contemplate what \u00bbdub\u00ab is.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As I talk about these relationships, I incorporate different music in the background, featuring artists like Scratch Lee Perry. Toward the end of the series, I also include women dub poets. I discuss how dub music can be seen as a form of queerness, where the original sound is twisted and transformed. This relates to both queerness and the experiences of women. I mention artists like Sister Nancy and how her song \u00bbBam Bam\u00ab exists in the realm of dub and dancehall music, as she navigated a predominantly masculine space.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Overall, each broadcast is like a poetic essay, where I analyze the meaning of each word, telling how all of that interweaves and connects.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: 'Maison Neue';\">Jazmina:<\/span> And this refers to what you have called a \u00bb(key)word\u00ab or is it serving a different function as keywords? \u2026 Based on your proposed \u00bbmeditation on a (key)word.\u00ab<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: 'Maison Neue';\">Sherese:<\/span> Each word used as the title of the broadcast acts as a keyword. In the search engine I typed in different aspects of that word based on the results to craft this poetic effect, a mutative or creolized, or transmutation of words.<sup class=\"is-footnote\">8<\/sup> I am interested in how that represents thought and meaning and how it concerns identity and positioning.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s a big endeavor, but I would like to turn it into a kind of radio station. Thinking about both the idea of pirate radio<sup class=\"is-footnote\">9<\/sup> that you and I spoke about [at an earlier stage of this project], got me thinking about its relationship to the Underground Railroad, the various stations that you can land on with a word, it\u2019s about the freedom of words.<\/p>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_img","acfe_flexible_layout_title":"Bild(er)","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":6,"img_gallery":false,"img":[39270],"img_gallery_format":false},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","acfe_flexible_layout_title":"Text","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"<p class=\"is-size-6\"><strong>Sherese Francis<\/strong> (she\/they) describes themselves as an Alkymist of the I\u2013Magination, finding expression through poetry and interdisciplinary arts (bookmaking, papermaking, collage, assemblage, performance, social arts practice). Her(e) work takes inspiration from her(e) Afro-Caribbean heritage (Barbados and Dominica), and studies in Afrofuturism and Black Speculative Arts, mythology, and etymology.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"is-size-6\"><strong>Jazmina Figueroa<\/strong> initiated the nineteenth call for Web Residencies and the collaboration between Digital Solitude and Liquid Architecture. Figueroa is a writer and performer.<\/p>\r\n&nbsp;"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_footnotes","acfe_flexible_layout_title":"Fu\u00dfnoten","bgcolor":"","footnotes_list_hide_numbers":false,"footnotes":[{"footnote":"<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Black Speculative Arts Movement<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Black Speculative Arts Movement. (n.d.). https:\/\/www.bsam-art.com\/about <\/span>"},{"footnote":"<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anansi, sometimes called Ananse, is the Spider God of knowledge, stories, trickery, and wisdom from the Akan, a Kwa group living in present-day Ghana and in parts of Ivory Coast and Togo in West Africa. Typically shown as a spider in Akan folklore, Anansi is a key figure in the stories of West Africa, African Americans, and the West Indies. These tales were brought to the Caribbean during the transatlantic slave trade. Anansi is known for being cunning, often outsmarting stronger foes.<\/span>"},{"footnote":"<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Jazz Singer<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a 1927 American musical film directed by Alan Crosland, which marked a significant milestone in the history of cinema as it was one of the first feature films to integrate synchronized sound. The film stars Al Jolson, an entertainer of the time known for his vaudeville and racist blackface performances.<\/span>"},{"footnote":"<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ululation is a long high-pitched vocal sound resembling a howl with a trilling quality. Particularly as a means of conveying grief, happiness, festivity, or respect. It is produced by emitting a high-pitched loud voice and with fast alternating motions of the tongue and the uvula. See: Pendle, Karin (2001). Women &amp; music: a history. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.<\/span>"},{"footnote":"<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Barbadian poet and cultural theorist, Kamau Brathwaite expanded the Black Atlantic notion of \u00bbnation language,\u00ab which refers to the use of a distinct, non-standardized form of language or dialect that is specific to a particular community, region, or nation. Brathwaite's national language is coupled with the preservation and celebration of the linguistic and cultural expressions throughout the Caribbean, focusing on the African diaspora's influence on the language and culture of the region.<\/span>"},{"footnote":"<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Atif Akin, Darren Almond, Julian Charrie\u0300re, Em\u2019kal Eyongakpa, Tue Greenfort, Ariel Guzik, Newell Harry, Alexander Lee, Eduardo Navarro, Sissel Tolaas, Janaina Tscha\u0308pe &amp; David Gruber, Jana Winderen, Susanne M. Winterling, \u00bbTIDALECTICS\u00ab, curated by Stefanie Hessler. NTS Radio, 15 Jun. 2017. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nts.live\/editorial\/tidalectics\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.nts.live\/editorial\/tidalectics<\/span><\/a>"},{"footnote":"<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Harper, D. (n.d.). filament (n.). <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Etymonline.com<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Retrieved from https:\/\/www.etymonline.com\/word\/filament. <\/span>"},{"footnote":"<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Glissant's <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Poetics of Relation<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, he summarizes the process of shaping Caribbean identity using 'detour,' 'ruse or trickery,' and 'opacity' as the critical components of the 'deferred speech' in Creolite languages.<\/span>"},{"footnote":"<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Frantz Fanon\u2019s essay, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is The Voice of Algeria <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">describes the use of technology in the Algerian colonial context and his account of the radio\u2019s introduction to colonial Algeria is paradoxical to the contemporary condition of technological developments and functions. Published in 1962, this essay describes Fanon\u2019s impressions of the colonial implementation as well as the native rejection and re-appropriation of the radio during pre- and revolutionary Algeria. 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