User:Zuhui//PMOMMs/Put a spell on you

What is it?

obsolete media witchcraft and poetry, using old plotter machines and HPGL language as kind of a ritualistic grammar to perform/stage an act of curse.

Why make it?

few months back i thought about putting a curse on someone but also in the same time i wanted to automate it to optimize the effort.

act of cursing (at least the way i see it)is an act of will and declaration performed through official/unofficial rules and protocols and often carries out with heavy repetition. what happens if i delegate this to a machine? if i write the hpgl command as code for the machine to utter, and then the slow and loud machine executes it again and again. can i make it count as a curse or does it become something else?

Previous practice

not sure if this falls into the category of previous practice but the idea and the motivation of this PMoMM first came from the experience of having to witness political moments back home where superstition and shamanic logic tempered governmental decision making + state affairs at the highest level. for 3 years.

headline-Independant

headline-The Guardian

headline-Chosun biz

Relation to a wider context

(abstract)

Automation and agency :

Belief without belief :

Code performativity :

Political ritual & performativity :

Media archaeology & Obsolete ritual :

Political counter-ritual :

References from personal reader / annotated bibilography :

• Excitable Speech: Politics of the Performative by Judith Butler
  
• Political Ritual and Social Integration by Steven Lukes
  
• Victor Turner's Ritual process
  
• The Dramatic Function of the Curse in Shakespeare’s Richard III
  
• W.I.T.C.H. - Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell

Choice made

• HP-GL/2 plays a crucial role in this. read the full manual book.