Siliconic Superhighway (2023)
Siliconic Superhighway ventures into the speculative fiction of silicon-based lifeforms. The work presents a visual and sonic journey that reflects on our current ecological predicament and the potential futures it unveils.
Silicon, the cornerstone of our digital existence, shapes the very fabric of our lives, from the cloud computing that envelops our daily interactions to the intricate web of networks that bind our global community. This work reimagines diatoms through their organosilicon configurations and animates these microscopic entities as vibrant, living forms. It draws an analogy between the human condition and diatoms that extend our physical form beyond the carbon-based life, suggesting an impending evolution towards silicon-based existence. Our bodies, rendered as data, and our minds, as granular entities, embody the transition towards a new form of life, mediated by the very element that underpins our technological advancements.
Film Stills.
Text to accompany the video work: Moore's Law: Is the exponential growth of semiconductors a law of nature? A Satire on Scientific Explanation via Lewis’s Best System Account
Possible Format:
→ Screening
→ Audiovisual Performance
→ Text
→ Musical Single: Silicon-based Lifeform
Supported by Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Abridged Zone and Live Art Ireland.
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Image by My Linnea Thomasson
Work title: Siliconic Superhighway
Year of Production: 2023
Size of Work: 17 minutes and 33 seconds
Genre: Video Essay, Experimental, Conceptual
Language/Subtitle: English
Text by Jean Baudrillard, Walter Benjamin, C.S. Lewis, Trevor Paglen, Nam June Paik, Hito Steyerl, and Richard Webb
Acknowledgement
Visual: Diarmuid Farrell
Sound: Quantum Foam
With Support of: Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Abridged Zone, Live Art Ireland