CONSIDERATIONS FOR A ROOT-CODE RE·WIRING

Mid-brown skin, dark black hair – my eyes turn from brown-yellow to green-grey when the sunlight turns. I was born in Colombia. I grew up in Bogotá, and I’ve been between there and Berlin for the past 10 years. This is from where I speak.

When receiving a Nobel Prize for Literature, Gabriel García Márquez pronounced a discurse called “The Solitude of Latin America.” He said that we haven’t found the means yet to render our lives believable. But one could say it isn’t only the Solitude of Latin America, it could easily be the Solitude of the African Continent or South Asia, South East Asia, or the Pacific. The Tropics are regions that have been historically exploited, undervalued, and (over)exoticised. There’s a need to redefine their understanding in endotic ways (as opposed to exotic ones) so it isn’t only a matter of “being-seen” but rather “to-see-from.” More than a recognition, it is the potentiality of a re·cognition. Braiding together ecologies within the Tropical Belt presents an opportunity to break the binary thinking we live in and shift to more-than-binary perma-computing practices and consequently pluri-versal understandings of the planet.

In recent years I’ve been collaboratively exploring the net as a verb: as ways of netting. Lateral exchange takes place as a constant un·re·learning process by sharing the differences where we find each other. We establish dialogues between situated knowledges and emerging technologies. We are interested in performing various translation processes that go beyond the translation of a single element but that could be understood as a translation of syntax or grammar. We craft protocols for the spelling of a multiplicity of worlds and expose ourselves to other logics and conducts that might help us re·wire the rootcode of what we think makes us human. Tropisms are usually described as the motion performed by beings when responding to stimuli. A common example is when a sunflower turns towards the sun. In this long-term research we want to examine the tropisms that keep us in motion despite being against odds, evens, and binaries. Technologies of life bloom as multiple worlds find themselves as complicés.