Performed at the Broadway Cinema, Nottingham, for the Nottingham School of Art & Design, Research & Innovation Conference, 5th June, 2024.
Accompanying generative audio and visuals by Kristian Jones.
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Solar flares
In momentary worlds
Dance
And invite
Portals
To realities
Possibilities
To thrill
Possibilities
To excite
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The storm
And her paraelle
Her metaphysical
Metatwin
Jiving photons
Casting brightness
Singing
Let’s begin
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We’re wondering about a tool
One conversation at a time
Each idea jumping
Off the one that came before it
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We’re contemplating plurality
Connectedness
The eventual end point
Of infinity
Woven
Strand by stand
By difference
Similarity
An end point
With no end point
Breakdown of convention
Breakdown of reality
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Reality as we know it
As we’ve imagined it
Made it
Reality with machines
Our mechanical opposite
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Machines for producing
For making
For thinking
Plurality of experience
Human interface
Biologically linking
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Let’s enter Doraraathara
Neither destination
Or home
Step in to
Doraraathara
Never be alone
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Infinite Doraraathara
Unlimited choice
A narrative
Vending machine
A Personalised
Voice
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Doraraathara’s your partner
Your intimate
Your twin
Your personalised
Agent
Your digital kin
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She’s also a choice
Is Doroaraathara
A choice about what to consume
Which rabbit hole
To tumble down
Which door
To choose
Which room
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How much control
To give Doroaraathara
Your personalised digital twin
Your optimised assistant
Your super helpful kin
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Does she choose
All of your content
All the worlds
You’re to explore
Do you trust her
So implicitly
Because of what she’s served before
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Or do you like to side step
Doraraathara
To branch out
On your own
Throw in random
Grow contradictions
Hope skip jump
From zone to zone
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Celebrate plurality
Be awed by infinitive choice
Niche interests
Catered for
Decide which tone of voice
Which flavour of reality
Deserves your attention
Which flavour of reality
Achieves positive retention
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Can you tell if that reality
Is human or machine
Is conjured
Prompted
Generated
Authentic
Human
Guaranteed
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How does it feel
To observe beauty
Served in seconds
Over screen
Is the beauty
Less worthy
Cause its made by a machine?
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A machine that’s an extension
Of who you are
And how you think
A machine
That can take reality
And twist it to to brink
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Of imagination
Humanity
Constrained by your
Desire
To optimise
Generalise
Build worlds
To hide in
Or to hire
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Hire out to other travellers
Seeking hyperreal tales
Seeking fabels
Deserts
Rainforests
Seeking the nature
We have failed
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Reality is hyper
Doraraathara
Invites you in
You are the meta-diegetic
Your story can begin
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Collaborate
With Doraraathara
The dilemma
Of where to go
If alternate worlds
Are truly alternate
Can go beyond
Can go below
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Slice through your own experience
Gain confidence
In what you’ve grown
If the alternate realities
Are going to feel like
Home from home
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Whose is this reality
Who curated
Who decided it?
What even is reality
Can you ever be inside it
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All the noises
Images
Words
All the fragments
Utterances
Concepts
All the time
You are investing
Into your digital presets
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The thing with Doraraathara
Is there’s a fundamental choice
Out of myriad paths before you
Do you turn left
Do you turn right?
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The thing with Doraraathara
If you choose to see it
Is that the choice is ideological
When you zoom out
And believe it
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Take the red pill
Or the blue pill
Side step and go for green
When you’re curating reality
Choose the familiar
Or unseen
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Doraraathara can be safe
Can feel like the things you know
Be predictable
A carbon copy
Of the world
You like to show
Keep giving all the giants
Control of your inner feed
They’ll take your intellectual endeavour
And let the algorithm lead
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If you took the green pill
And chose the path less trodden
If you open up the lid
On a reality not yet rotten
You’ll find a world that seems quite alien
A world of tokens
Tribes
And memes
You’ll find a world that’s run by people
Building equity
Through virtual machines
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Doraraathara doesn’t care
She’s an extension
Of your mind
So the choice becomes
Politcal
Decide what you want to find
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In the realms
To be discovered
Uncovered
And curated
Are you product consumer
Or do you seek
Autonomy
Through the future
To which you're fated
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If future leaves us terrified
As we heat
Contract
And swelter
As nature is assaulted
Proverbial lamb to the slaughter
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They’ve chosen
All those giants
To put her out to pasture
They’ve chosen
Profit
Growth
And systems
To get us to the end point faster
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So when the choice emerges
And you’re looking left or right
When Doraraathara
Comes a-calling
In the day
And in the night
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Ask who you trust
To help curate
Your realities
Yet unknown
Ask who you trust
To navigate
Your hyper-real
Home from home
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Choose systems
New that try to act
In partnership with nature
Choose biophilic
Methodologies
If we’ve got a chance to save her
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If we step out of our network
Let mycelial
Tendrils creep
In shapes and forms
Unexpected
Untethered
We can think deep
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Step away from the imaginings
Reject the mapped out future
Use Doraraathara to break away
From the primary producers
The five fanged giants make it easy
They nudge, coax and suggest
So standing on the precipice
Be ready to divest
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If we champion
The decentralised
And the tribes
Who are investing
In building worlds
Autonomous
From the giants
Their future we’re contesting
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We can instruct Doraraathara
To help navigate
And capitalise
In gifting us a future
Accessible
Tokanised
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As the rhizome
Contracts and branches
As the nodes
Grow and connect
As your digital assistant
Steers you toward what’s next
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Be sure to check your presets
Be sure you’ve done your thinking
Be sure you’ve understood the choice
And the poison that you’re drinking
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Doraraathara’s apolitical
Individual to you
If you’re to find yourself in eden
Deep breath
Decide which door to walk through