The men say that the arrogance of this woman is insane. The men say they have never seen such a monster. meanwhile an infant, glittering, splits the night sky with its howls activating neuronic mirrors amongst its familiars
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The paper is a hexecutable, a call and response between the ecstatic voice generated by states of grace or madness, and the ‘prosodic intonation’ and ‘communicative musicality’ shared between the infant and its besotted attendants. Sources include transcripts of the trial of Jeanne d’Arc, family diaries and recordings hurled into the material world during ‘psychotic’ states, and propositions about memory and ‘vitality affects’ from the groundbreaking work of the late neuroscientist and psychiatrist Daniel N. Stern. Dr. Francesca da Rimini (aka doll yoko, GashGirl, liquid_nation, Fury) is an interdisciplinary artist, poet and essayist. She revels in collaborative projects, seeking out companions for generating slow art, strange beats and new personae. As co-founder of cyberfeminist group VNS Matrix (established 1991), da Rimini contributed to international critiques of gender and technology. She continued such investigations with the transcontinental group identity_runners. In the short multilingual film White da Rimini and Josephine Starrs explored the wild mind of a woman in a closed psychiatric ward. The award-winning internet artwork dollspace (with Tiny K and Ricardo Dominguez) used the figure of the ghost girl doll yoko to lure web wanderers into a pond of dead girls and Zapatista hauntologies. As GashGirl/Puppet Mistress, she explored the uploaded erotic imagination of strangers encountered on the online platform/community LambdaMOO. More recent creative works include the wireless sensor data-driven live event Bloodbath (with Bump Projects and Sydney Roller Derby League); Hexecutable at LambdaMOO for Furtherfield, London; the commissioned libretto Songs for Skinwalking the Drone, and keynote hysteriography Hexing the Alien (cowritten and performed with Virginia Barratt in Helsingor and Berlin respectively); and echolalia: golden iterations (co-written and performed with WHOis for Experimentalities in Adelaide). da Rimini is also co-author of Disorder and the Disinformation Society: the Social Dynamics of Information, Networks and Software (2015). Leap into some of the internet artworks and traces from http://gashgirl.sysx.org
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