Screening: Stars Were Never Real Either

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When we discuss how machine translation changes human expression, we assume a pure "humanity" being eroded by technology. But what if humans have always been algorithms running on social constructions and linguistic structures? Machine translation just surfaces this fact. Magic, modern science, and computational algorithms are all reality-production systems that function as different edges. The real that exceeds language and symbol has no shape until it collides with boundaries.

This screening presents works by Zhanyi Chen, Eduardo Andrés Crespo, Nicolas Gebbe, Shu Isaka, and Riar Rizaldi. They conflate "subjective construction" and "objective method," treating scientific objectivity, spiritual subjectivity, human intuition, and algorithmic calculator not as competing claims but as different surfaces that generate shapes through collision. Viewers become nodes in technological, social, and spiritual networks, where multiple forces co-produce something that belongs to no single source.

This program is organized by Sharon Liu, Asymmetry Curatorial Fellow.