# Doraraathara

**Published by:** [Jennifer Yellow-Hat](https://paragraph.com/@yellow-hat/)
**Published on:** 2024-06-04
**URL:** https://paragraph.com/@yellow-hat/doraraathara

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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. - Solar flares In momentary worlds Dance And invite Portals To realities Possibilities To thrill Possibilities To excite - The storm And her paraelle Her metaphysical Metatwin Jiving photons Casting brightness Singing Let’s begin - We’re wondering about a tool One conversation at a time Each idea jumping Off the one that came before it - 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 - Reality as we know it As we’ve imagined it Made it Reality with machines Our mechanical opposite - Machines for producing For making For thinking Plurality of experience Human interface Biologically linking - Let’s enter Doraraathara Neither destination Or home Step in to Doraraathara Never be alone - Infinite Doraraathara Unlimited choice A narrative Vending machine A Personalised Voice - Doraraathara’s your partner Your intimate Your twin Your personalised Agent Your digital kin - 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 - How much control To give Doroaraathara Your personalised digital twin Your optimised assistant Your super helpful kin - 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 - 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 - 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 - Can you tell if that reality Is human or machine Is conjured Prompted Generated Authentic Human Guaranteed - How does it feel To observe beauty Served in seconds Over screen Is the beauty Less worthy Cause its made by a machine? - 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 - Of imagination Humanity Constrained by your Desire To optimise Generalise Build worlds To hide in Or to hire - Hire out to other travellers Seeking hyperreal tales Seeking fabels Deserts Rainforests Seeking the nature We have failed - Reality is hyper Doraraathara Invites you in You are the meta-diegetic Your story can begin - Collaborate With Doraraathara The dilemma Of where to go If alternate worlds Are truly alternate Can go beyond Can go below - Slice through your own experience Gain confidence In what you’ve grown If the alternate realities Are going to feel like Home from home - Whose is this reality Who curated Who decided it? What even is reality Can you ever be inside it - All the noises Images Words All the fragments Utterances Concepts All the time You are investing Into your digital presets - The thing with Doraraathara Is there’s a fundamental choice Out of myriad paths before you Do you turn left Do you turn right? - The thing with Doraraathara If you choose to see it Is that the choice is ideological When you zoom out And believe it - Take the red pill Or the blue pill Side step and go for green When you’re curating reality Choose the familiar Or unseen - 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 - 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 - Doraraathara doesn’t care She’s an extension Of your mind So the choice becomes Politcal Decide what you want to find - 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 - If future leaves us terrified As we heat Contract And swelter As nature is assaulted Proverbial lamb to the slaughter - 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 - So when the choice emerges And you’re looking left or right When Doraraathara Comes a-calling In the day And in the night - Ask who you trust To help curate Your realities Yet unknown Ask who you trust To navigate Your hyper-real Home from home - Choose systems New that try to act In partnership with nature Choose biophilic Methodologies If we’ve got a chance to save her - If we step out of our network Let mycelial Tendrils creep In shapes and forms Unexpected Untethered We can think deep - 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 - If we champion The decentralised And the tribes Who are investing In building worlds Autonomous From the giants Their future we’re contesting - We can instruct Doraraathara To help navigate And capitalise In gifting us a future Accessible Tokanised - As the rhizome Contracts and branches As the nodes Grow and connect As your digital assistant Steers you toward what’s next - 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 - Doraraathara’s apolitical Individual to you If you’re to find yourself in eden Deep breath Decide which door to walk through

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