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GMU:Hallucinating computers and dreaming non-machines/Mahla Mosahaneh

2025-10-19T00:43:59Z

Mahla Mosah:

[[File:Installation-Video.jpg|thumb|893x893px|Summaery Installation 2025]]

= '''Sinechak /سینه چاک/''' =
Sose 2025

''= The Ripped chest / To rip your chest open''

'''''Meaning(translated from Farsi'''): Suffered, Lover, bothered, sincere /An epic act of love and grief/''

'''''In context:''' Sacrificing sanity to liberate the truth of self''

''' '''

== Project Description ==
Sinechak is a video installation by Mahla Mosah, with sound design by David Muñoz Hasselbrink. It is a personal meditation on spirituality, grief, and human suffering, drawing from Eastern spiritual practices. The work imagines a liminal space between the world of form and the formless, where the desire for transcendence exists alongside the need to give meaning to pain and identity.

Sinechak reflects the feeling of being stuck between two states of longing to be free but unable to let go. It treats dreams and hallucinations as real ways of sensing the self, beyond logic or control.

The open chest becomes a symbol of that fragile space in between, a place of exposure, uncertainty, which carries the possibility of change.

== Background ==
The act of ripping the chest open serves as a powerful metaphor for revealing one's true self, embracing vulnerability, and seeking deeper truths. This motif underscores human aspiration toward authenticity and connection, represented across different eastern cultures, specially persian and Indian spiritual practices and literary traditions.

'''''Ibn Arabi''''' interprets this ripping and expansion of the chest as a removal of veils between the individual and divine reality. The heart becomes a polished mirror, capable of reflecting the truth.

'''''Rumi (Jalal al-Din Balkhi)''''' uses chest and heart imagery to refer to the place where pain, love, truth, and divine presence dwell.<blockquote>''“My chest opened like a rose, not to show its beauty, but to release the perfume of secrets I could no longer hold.”''

''"You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens."''

''"You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art."''

''"The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are."''

'''Rumi - Paraphrased from Persian'''

From the flood of events, bright hearts are at peace;

In this ruin, the only commodity is moonlight.

Why does the oyster not split open its chest, O Ṣāʾib?

In this age where not many know the value of a true jewel.

'''Part from Ghazal No. 1660 – Ṣāʾib Tabrīzī'''

"Did We not expand your chest for you?" '''Quran,Surah al-Inshirah, 94:1'''

</blockquote>In ''Hindu mythology'', Hanuman tells Sita that anything in which Lord Ram is not there is of no worth to him. Then, some jealous courtiers ask him that does Ram exist in him? Hanuman tears his chest open, and everyone is stunned to see Lord Ram and Sita in his chest.

== Process ==
The starting ideation point of Sinechak came from a personal reflection on the contradictions i found with my personal beliefs and cultural roots. I have a deep connection with persian poetry which led me to the idea of Divana ,a figure driven into madness by devotion to the divine, and the imagery of ripping your chest open for love and truth captivated me. I found it dysphoric, surgical and somehow violent. This image became a mirror to my internal tension, an anger born from the distance of my fragmented socially inscribed body and this idea of liberation. I felt very close to it but it was still out of reach.

I wanted the process of creating Sinechak to grow from the same state of openness and uncertainty. I began without a fixed plan, taking daily notes, recording sounds, and experimenting with different materials. The first visual form of the project emerged through collage experiments, as I tried to give shape to the idea of formlessness. I did acts of deconstructing and reconstructing photos, mostly from geographical books with natural landscapes.
[[File:Work process sinechak.jpg|thumb]]

<gallery mode="nolines">
File:Collage 2.jpg
File:Collage 1.png
File:Collage 3.jpg
File:Collage fromless 6.jpg
File:Collageformless5.jpg
File:Collageformless4.jpg
</gallery>

I was drawn to the spatial depth in these collages and wanted to emphasize it further. To do so, I rephotographed the collages using green screen and lighting setups that cast shadows, expanding their sense of dimension.
[[File:Sinechakgreenscreen.png|thumb|456x456px]]

As the last stage, I brought in my reflection of form using videos from my personal archive and layered them in fragments with collages. Then recorded the different notes i wrote during the project to compose the sound and narration with David Muñoz Hasselbrink and created the final video.

[[File:Videocollagesinechak.png|thumb|593x593px]]

== Video Installation ==
[[File:Installationsketch.jpg|thumb|600x600px|Installation sketch]]
[[File:Sinechakinstallation.jpg|thumb|581x581px]]
My vision for the installation was to project the video onto a wall accompanied by a two-channel sound composition played from both sides of the space. A mirror is placed in front of the projection, inviting the audience to watch the video through reflection. As they do, their image becomes part of the work, a living collage within the larger composition. suspended between the screen and the mirror, between the image and its reflection, between form and formlessness.

[[File:Sinechak Wide (2).jpg|thumb|Photo by Peechana Chayochaichana |579x579px]]
[[File:Sinechak Wide (5).jpg|thumb|Photo by Peechana Chayochaichana |587x587px]]
[[File:Mahla Detail (15).jpg|thumb|Photo by Peechana Chayochaichana |591x591px]]

GMU:Hallucinating computers and dreaming non-machines/Mahla Mosahaneh

2025-10-10T13:28:04Z

Mahla Mosah:

[[File:Installation-Video.jpg|thumb|893x893px|Summaery Installation 2025]]

= '''Sinechak /سینه چاک/''' =
Sose 2025

''= The Ripped chest / To rip your chest open''

'''''Meaning(translated from Farsi'''): Suffered, Lover, bothered, sincere /An epic act of love and grief/''

'''''In context:''' Sacrificing sanity to liberate the truth of self''

''' '''

== Project Description ==
Sinechak is a video installation by Mahla Mosah, with sound design by David Muñoz Hasselbrink. It is a personal meditation on spirituality, grief, and human suffering, drawing from Eastern spiritual practices. The work imagines a liminal space between the world of form and the formless, where the desire for transcendence exists alongside the need to give meaning to pain and identity.

Sinechak reflects the feeling of being stuck between two states of longing to be free but unable to let go. It treats dreams and hallucinations as real ways of sensing the self, beyond logic or control.

The open chest becomes a symbol of that fragile space in between, a place of exposure, uncertainty, which carries the possibility of change.

== Background ==
The act of ripping the chest open serves as a powerful metaphor for revealing one's true self, embracing vulnerability, and seeking deeper truths. This motif underscores human aspiration toward authenticity and connection, represented across different eastern cultures, specially persian and Indian spiritual practices and literary traditions.

'''''Ibn Arabi''''' interprets this ripping and expansion of the chest as a removal of veils between the individual and divine reality. The heart becomes a polished mirror, capable of reflecting the truth.

'''''Rumi (Jalal al-Din Balkhi)''''' uses chest and heart imagery to refer to the place where pain, love, truth, and divine presence dwell.<blockquote>''“My chest opened like a rose, not to show its beauty, but to release the perfume of secrets I could no longer hold.”''

''"You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens."''

''"You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art."''

''"The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are."''

'''Rumi - Paraphrased from Persian'''

From the flood of events, bright hearts are at peace;

In this ruin, the only commodity is moonlight.

Why does the oyster not split open its chest, O Ṣāʾib?

In this age where not many know the value of a true jewel.

'''Part from Ghazal No. 1660 – Ṣāʾib Tabrīzī'''

"Did We not expand your chest for you?" '''Quran,Surah al-Inshirah, 94:1'''

</blockquote>In ''Hindu mythology'', Hanuman tells Sita that anything in which Lord Ram is not there is of no worth to him. Then, some jealous courtiers ask him that does Ram exist in him? Hanuman tears his chest open, and everyone is stunned to see Lord Ram and Sita in his chest.

== Process ==
The starting ideation point of Sinechak came from a personal reflection on the contradictions i found with my personal beliefs and cultural roots. I have a deep connection with persian poetry which got me led me to the idea of Divana ,a figure driven into madness by devotion to the divine, and the imagery of ripping your chest open for love and truth captivated me. I found it dysphoric, surgical and somehow violent. This image became a mirror to my own internal tension, an anger born from the distance of my fragmented socially inscribed body and this idea of liberation. I felt very close to it but it was still very out of reach.

I wanted the process of creating Sinechak to grow from the same state of openness and uncertainty. I began without a fixed plan, taking daily notes, writing, recording sounds, and experimenting with different materials. The first visual form of the project emerged through collage experiments, as I tried to give shape to the idea of formlessness. I did acts of deconstructing and reconstructing photos, mostly from geographical books with natural landscapes.
[[File:Work process sinechak.jpg|thumb]]

<gallery mode="nolines">
File:Collage 2.jpg
File:Collage 1.png
File:Collage 3.jpg
File:Collage fromless 6.jpg
File:Collageformless5.jpg
File:Collageformless4.jpg
</gallery>

I was drawn to the spatial depth in these collages and wanted to emphasize it further. To do so, I rephotographed the collages using green screen and lighting setups that cast shadows, expanding their sense of dimension
[[File:Sinechakgreenscreen.png|thumb|456x456px]]

As the last stage, I brought in my reflection of form using videos from my personal archive and layered them in fragments with collages. Then recorded the different notes i wrote during the project to compose the sound and narration with David Muñoz Hasselbrink and created the final video.

[[File:Videocollagesinechak.png|thumb|593x593px]]

== Video Installation ==
[[File:Installationsketch.jpg|thumb|600x600px|Installation sketch]]
[[File:Sinechakinstallation.jpg|thumb|581x581px]]
My vision for the installation was to project the video onto a wall accompanied by a two-channel sound composition played from both sides of the space. A mirror is placed in front of the projection, inviting the audience to watch the video through reflection. As they do, their image becomes part of the work, a living collage within the larger composition. suspended between the screen and the mirror, between the image and its reflection, between form and formlessness.

[[File:Sinechak Wide (2).jpg|thumb|Photo by Peechana Chayochaichana |579x579px]]
[[File:Sinechak Wide (5).jpg|thumb|Photo by Peechana Chayochaichana |587x587px]]
[[File:Mahla Detail (15).jpg|thumb|Photo by Peechana Chayochaichana |591x591px]]

File:Work process sinechak.jpg

2025-10-10T13:23:09Z

Mahla Mosah:

collage process

GMU:Hallucinating computers and dreaming non-machines/Mahla Mosahaneh

2025-10-09T22:24:30Z

Mahla Mosah:

[[File:Installation-Video.jpg|thumb|893x893px|Summaery Installation 2025]]

= '''Sinechak /سینه چاک/''' =
Sose 2025

''= The Ripped chest / To rip your chest open''

'''''Meaning(translated from Farsi'''): Suffered, Lover, bothered, sincere /An epic act of love and grief/''

'''''In context:''' Sacrificing sanity to liberate the truth of self''

''' '''

== Project Description ==
Sinechak is a video installation by Mahla Mosah, with sound design by David Muñoz Hasselbrink. It is a personal meditation on spirituality, grief, and human suffering, drawing from Eastern spiritual practices. The work imagines a liminal space between the world of form and the formless, where the desire for transcendence exists alongside the need to give meaning to pain and identity.

Sinechak reflects the feeling of being stuck between two states of longing to be free but unable to let go. It treats dreams and hallucinations as real ways of sensing the self, beyond logic or control.

The open chest becomes a symbol of that fragile space in between, a place of exposure, uncertainty, which carries the possibility of change.

== Background ==
The act of ripping the chest open serves as a powerful metaphor for revealing one's true self, embracing vulnerability, and seeking deeper truths. This motif underscores human aspiration toward authenticity and connection, represented across different eastern cultures, specially persian and Indian spiritual practices and literary traditions.

'''''Ibn Arabi''''' interprets this ripping and expansion of the chest as a removal of veils between the individual and divine reality. The heart becomes a polished mirror, capable of reflecting the truth.

'''''Rumi (Jalal al-Din Balkhi)''''' uses chest and heart imagery to refer to the place where pain, love, truth, and divine presence dwell.<blockquote>''“My chest opened like a rose, not to show its beauty, but to release the perfume of secrets I could no longer hold.”''

''"You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens."''

''"You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art."''

''"The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are."''

'''Rumi - Paraphrased from Persian'''

From the flood of events, bright hearts are at peace;

In this ruin, the only commodity is moonlight.

Why does the oyster not split open its chest, O Ṣāʾib?

In this age where not many know the value of a true jewel.

'''Part from Ghazal No. 1660 – Ṣāʾib Tabrīzī'''

"Did We not expand your chest for you?" '''Quran,Surah al-Inshirah, 94:1'''

</blockquote>In ''Hindu mythology'', Hanuman tells Sita that anything in which Lord Ram is not there is of no worth to him. Then, some jealous courtiers ask him that does Ram exist in him? Hanuman tears his chest open, and everyone is stunned to see Lord Ram and Sita in his chest.

== Process ==
The starting ideation point of Sinechak came from a personal reflection on the contradictions i found with my personal beliefs and cultural roots. I have a deep connection with persian poetry which got me led me to the idea of Divana ,a figure driven into madness by devotion to the divine, and the imagery of ripping your chest open for love and truth captivated me. I found it dysphoric, surgical and somehow violent. This image became a mirror to my own internal tension, an anger born from the distance of my fragmented socially inscribed body and this idea of liberation. I felt very close to it but it was still very out of reach.

I wanted the process of creating Sinechak to grow from the same state of openness and uncertainty. I began without a fixed plan, taking daily notes, writing, recording sounds, and experimenting with different materials. The first visual form of the project emerged through collage experiments, as I tried to give shape to the idea of formlessness. I did acts of deconstructing and reconstructing photos, mostly from geographical books with natural landscapes.

<gallery mode="nolines">
File:Collage 2.jpg
File:Collage 1.png
File:Collage 3.jpg
File:Collage fromless 6.jpg
File:Collageformless5.jpg
File:Collageformless4.jpg
</gallery>

I was drawn to the spatial depth in these collages and wanted to emphasize it further. To do so, I rephotographed the collages using green screen and lighting setups that cast shadows, expanding their sense of dimension
[[File:Sinechakgreenscreen.png|thumb|456x456px]]

As the last stage, I brought in my reflection of form using videos from my personal archive and layered them in fragments with collages. Then recorded the different notes i wrote during the project to compose the sound and narration with David Muñoz Hasselbrink and created the final video.
[[File:Videocollagesinechak.png|thumb|593x593px]]

== Video Installation ==
[[File:Installationsketch.jpg|thumb|420x420px|Installation sketch]]
My vision for the installation was to project the video onto a wall accompanied by a two-channel sound composition played from both sides of the space. A mirror is placed in front of the projection, inviting the audience to watch the video through reflection. As they do, their image becomes part of the work, a living collage within the larger composition. suspended between the screen and the mirror, between the image and its reflection, between form and formlessness.

[[File:Sinechak Wide (2).jpg|thumb|Photo by Peechana Chayochaichana ]]
[[File:Sinechak Wide (5).jpg|thumb|Photo by Peechana Chayochaichana ]]
[[File:Mahla Detail (15).jpg|thumb|Photo by Peechana Chayochaichana ]]

File:Mahla Detail (15).jpg

2025-10-09T22:23:25Z

Mahla Mosah:

Installation documentation

File:Sinechak Wide (2).jpg

2025-10-09T22:13:15Z

Mahla Mosah:

Installation documentation

File:Sinechak Wide (5).jpg

2025-10-09T22:08:08Z

Mahla Mosah:

Installation documentation

GMU:Hallucinating computers and dreaming non-machines/Mahla Mosahaneh

2025-10-09T22:00:35Z

Mahla Mosah:

[[File:Installation-Video.jpg|thumb|893x893px|Summaery Installation 2025]]

= '''Sinechak /سینه چاک/''' =
Sose 2025

''= The Ripped chest / To rip your chest open''

'''''Meaning(translated from Farsi'''): Suffered, Lover, bothered, sincere /An epic act of love and grief/''

'''''In context:''' Sacrificing sanity to liberate the truth of self''

''' '''

== Project Description ==
Sinechak is a video installation by Mahla Mosah, with sound design by David Muñoz Hasselbrink. It is a personal meditation on spirituality, grief, and human suffering, drawing from Eastern spiritual practices. The work imagines a liminal space between the world of form and the formless, where the desire for transcendence exists alongside the need to give meaning to pain and identity.

Sinechak reflects the feeling of being stuck between two states of longing to be free but unable to let go. It treats dreams and hallucinations as real ways of sensing the self, beyond logic or control.

The open chest becomes a symbol of that fragile space in between, a place of exposure, uncertainty, which carries the possibility of change.

== Background ==
The act of ripping the chest open serves as a powerful metaphor for revealing one's true self, embracing vulnerability, and seeking deeper truths. This motif underscores human aspiration toward authenticity and connection, represented across different eastern cultures, specially persian and Indian spiritual practices and literary traditions.

'''''Ibn Arabi''''' interprets this ripping and expansion of the chest as a removal of veils between the individual and divine reality. The heart becomes a polished mirror, capable of reflecting the truth.

'''''Rumi (Jalal al-Din Balkhi)''''' uses chest and heart imagery to refer to the place where pain, love, truth, and divine presence dwell.<blockquote>''“My chest opened like a rose, not to show its beauty, but to release the perfume of secrets I could no longer hold.”''

''"You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens."''

''"You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art."''

''"The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are."''

'''Rumi - Paraphrased from Persian'''

From the flood of events, bright hearts are at peace;

In this ruin, the only commodity is moonlight.

Why does the oyster not split open its chest, O Ṣāʾib?

In this age where not many know the value of a true jewel.

'''Part from Ghazal No. 1660 – Ṣāʾib Tabrīzī'''

"Did We not expand your chest for you?" '''Quran,Surah al-Inshirah, 94:1'''

</blockquote>In ''Hindu mythology'', Hanuman tells Sita that anything in which Lord Ram is not there is of no worth to him. Then, some jealous courtiers ask him that does Ram exist in him? Hanuman tears his chest open, and everyone is stunned to see Lord Ram and Sita in his chest.

== Process ==
The starting ideation point of Sinechak came from a personal reflection on the contradictions i found with my personal beliefs and cultural roots. I have a deep connection with persian poetry which got me led me to the idea of Divana ,a figure driven into madness by devotion to the divine, and the imagery of ripping your chest open for love and truth captivated me. I found it dysphoric, surgical and somehow violent. This image became a mirror to my own internal tension, an anger born from the distance of my fragmented socially inscribed body and this idea of liberation. I felt very close to it but it was still very out of reach.

I wanted the process of creating Sinechak to grow from the same state of openness and uncertainty. I began without a fixed plan, taking daily notes, writing, recording sounds, and experimenting with different materials. The first visual form of the project emerged through collage experiments, as I tried to give shape to the idea of formlessness. I did acts of deconstructing and reconstructing photos, mostly from geographical books with natural landscapes.

<gallery mode="slideshow">
File:Collage 2.jpg
File:Collage 1.png
File:Collage 3.jpg
File:Collage fromless 6.jpg
File:Collageformless5.jpg
File:Collageformless4.jpg
</gallery>

I was drawn to the spatial depth in these collages and wanted to emphasize it further. To do so, I rephotographed the collages using green screen and lighting setups that cast shadows, expanding their sense of dimension
[[File:Sinechakgreenscreen.png|thumb|456x456px]]

As the last stage, I brought in my reflection of form using videos from my personal archive and layered them in fragments with collages. Then recorded the different notes i wrote during the project to compose the sound and narration with David Muñoz Hasselbrink and created the final video.
[[File:Videocollagesinechak.png|thumb|593x593px]]

== Video Installation ==
[[File:Installationsketch.jpg|thumb|420x420px|Installation sketch]]
My vision for the installation was to project the video onto a wall accompanied by a two-channel sound composition played from both sides of the space. A mirror is placed in front of the projection, inviting the audience to watch the video through reflection. As they do, their image becomes part of the work, a living collage within the larger composition. suspended between the screen and the mirror, between the image and its reflection, between form and formlessness.

File:Sinechakinstallation.jpg

2025-10-09T21:57:02Z

Mahla Mosah:

installation documentation

File:Installationsketch.jpg

2025-10-09T21:40:12Z

Mahla Mosah:

sketch for installation

File:Videocollagesinechak.png

2025-10-09T21:36:47Z

Mahla Mosah:

videocollage

File:Sinechakgreenscreen.png

2025-10-09T21:34:02Z

Mahla Mosah:

collage experiment

File:Collage fromless 6.jpg

2025-10-09T21:24:30Z

Mahla Mosah:

Collage experiments

File:Collageformless5.jpg

2025-10-09T21:23:02Z

Mahla Mosah:

Collage experiment

File:Collageformless4.jpg

2025-10-09T21:21:22Z

Mahla Mosah:

Collage experiment 4

GMU:Hallucinating computers and dreaming non-machines/Mahla Mosahaneh

2025-09-30T19:02:21Z

Mahla Mosah:

[[File:Installation-Video.jpg|thumb|662x662px|Summaery 2025]]

= '''Sinechak /سینه چاک/''' =
''= The Ripped chest / To rip your chest open''

'''''Meaning(translated from Farsi'''): Suffered, Lover, bothered, sincere /An epic act of love and grief/''

'''''In context:''' Sacrificing all to liberate the truth of self''

''' '''

=== Project Description ===
Sinechak is a video installation by Mahla Mosah, with sound design by David Muñoz Hasselbrink. It is a personal meditation on spirituality, grief, and human suffering, drawing from Eastern spiritual practices. The work imagines a liminal space between the world of form and the formless, where the desire for transcendence exists alongside the need to give meaning to pain and identity.

Sinechak reflects the feeling of being stuck between these two states, longing to be free, yet unable to let go. It treats dreams and hallucinations as real ways of sensing the self, beyond logic or control. The open chest becomes a symbol of that fragile space in between, a place of exposure, uncertainty, and the possibility of change.

== Background ==
The act of ripping the chest open serves as a powerful metaphor for revealing one's true self, embracing vulnerability, and seeking deeper truths. This motif underscores human aspiration toward authenticity and connection, represented across different eastern cultures, specially persian and Indian spiritual practices and literary traditions.

'''''Ibn Arabi''''' interprets this ripping and expansion of the chest as a removal of veils between the individual and divine reality. The heart becomes a polished mirror, capable of reflecting the truth.

'''''Rumi (Jalal al-Din Balkhi)''''' uses chest and heart imagery to refer to the place where pain, love, truth, and divine presence dwell.<blockquote>''“My chest opened like a rose, not to show its beauty, but to release the perfume of secrets I could no longer hold.”''

''"You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens."''

''"You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art."''

''"The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are."''

'''Rumi - Paraphrased from Persian'''

From the flood of events, bright hearts are at peace;

In this ruin, the only commodity is moonlight.

Why does the oyster not split open its chest, O Ṣāʾib?

In this age where not many know the value of a true jewel.

'''Part from Ghazal No. 1660 – Ṣāʾib Tabrīzī'''

"Did We not expand your chest for you?" '''Quran,Surah al-Inshirah, 94:1'''

</blockquote>In ''Hindu mythology'', Hanuman tells Sita that anything in which Lord Ram is not there is of no worth to him. Then, some jealous courtiers ask him that does Ram exist in him? Hanuman tears his chest open, and everyone is stunned to see Lord Ram and Sita in his chest.

== Process ==

=== Installation ===
[[File:Installation 2025.jpg|thumb|628x628px]]

File:Installation 2025.jpg

2025-09-30T17:55:03Z

Mahla Mosah:

Video installation

File:Collage 3.jpg

2025-09-30T17:51:08Z

Mahla Mosah:

Collage experiments 3

File:Collage 2.jpg

2025-09-30T17:05:41Z

Mahla Mosah:

Collage experiment

File:Collage 1.png

2025-09-30T17:04:38Z

Mahla Mosah:

Collage experiments

File:Installation-Video.jpg

2025-09-30T16:43:59Z

Mahla Mosah:

Sinechak Installation Summaery 2025

GMU:Hallucinating computers and dreaming non-machines

2025-06-11T14:41:19Z

Mahla Mosah: /* Midterm Presentations: */

[[File:Dreaming computers.png|thumb|539x539px]]
==Project Module: Hallucinating Computers and Dreaming Non-Machines==
Isabella Lee Arturo, Dr. Mindaugas Gapševičius, Prof. Ursula Damm

The course wants to stimulate and accompany projects of students dealing with emergent behavior of computers and/or their co-existence with non-machines. Non-machine is a term which has been introduced by Mindaugas Gapsevicius and names all non-technical subjects (humans, animals, plants). It inspires us to look at living things from the perspective of a machine and vice versa.

In the module we want to imagine how non-humans dream or how we - humans can use our dreams for a meaningful exchange with other non-machines.

We comprehend the concept of [dreaming] as a term that connects with fictions, futuristic speculations and desires.

And what about human-shaped machines? Being confronted with hallucinations of software processes in many facets of our daily lives, we would also like to better understand the difference between computer hallucinations and our own dreaming capacity.

More and more research focuses on all the creatures which made human life possible. Millions of years of photosynthesis made it possible for us to live on earth today. The ecological crises show that we have not yet understood our dependence on our ecological embedding. Have we developed the wrong kind of technology? What can the capabilities of contemporary technology contribute to a common, intellectual and spiritual sphere?

==Syllabus==
* 14-04-2025. Lead: Isabella / miga, [[/Introduction mentors and students. Wiki]]
* 15-04-2025. Lead: Isabella / miga, [[non-machines presentation / Latinamerica Artist presentation]]
* 21-04-2025. Holidays
* 22-04-2025. Lead: Isabella, [[First Wall Presentation (Studio Tour) / Body Workshop]]
* 28-04-2025. Lead: Bethan Hughes / Miga
* 29-04-2025. Lead: Bethan Hughes / Miga
* 05-05-2025. Lead: Isabella, [[Studio Afternoon]]
* 06-05-2025. Lead: Isabella, [[Presentation Day]]
* 12-05-2025. Lead: Lia Giannakou / Miga, [[/The Conscious Body: An Emergency Act]]
* 13-05-2025. Lead: Miga, [[Reading Non-machines, Presentation Day]]
* 19-05-2025. Lead: Moritz Wehrmann / Isabella, [[Workshop]]
* 20-05-2025. Lead: Moritz Wehrmann / Isabella, [[Workshop]]
* 26-05-2025. Lead: Miga, [[Studio Afternoon]]
* 27-05-2025. Lead: Miga, [[Presentation Day]]
* 02-06-2025. Lead: Isabella, [[Studio Afternoon]]
* 03-06-2025. Lead: Isabella, Xristina [[Presentation Day]]
* 09-06-2025. Pfingsten: 09.06.2025
* 10-06-2025. Lead: Miga, Xristina [[Mid-term Project presentation]]
* 11-06-2025. Lead: Xristina
* 16-06-2025. Lead: Isabella, Beth [[Mid-term Project presentation]]
* 17-06-2025. Lead: Isabella, Beth [[Mid-term Project presentation]]
* 23-06-2025. Lead: Miga, [[Studio Afternoon]]
* 24-06-2025. Lead: Miga, Xristina [[Mid-term Project presentation]]
* 25-06-2025. Lead: Xristina
* 30-06-2025. Lead: Isabella, Beth [[Mid-term Project presentation]]
* 01-07-2025. Lead: Isabella, Beth [[Mid-term Project presentation]]
* 07-07-2025. Lead: Iannis Zannos. Isabella+miga, [[/Bartok as Proto-Bio-Artist]]
* 08-07-2025. Lead: miga, Xristina prep [[summaery 2025 ]]
* 09-07-2025. Xristina
* Friday 11th - Beth + Xristina Weimar Summary / final presentation
* Saturday 12th - Beth + Xristina Weimar Summary / final presentation

==Students==
* [[/Lina Louise Wolff]]
* [[/Alaina Sophie Nugnis]]
* [[/Buba Beboshvili]]
* [[/Negin Ehtesabian]]
* [[/Mahla Mosahaneh]]
* [[/Radu Paul Simon Reinhardt]]
* [[/David Frommhold]]
* /Oeykue Tuerkan Didinir
* [[/Theo]]

== Students Artist Presentation Schedule: ==
06-05-2025: Theo

13-05-2025: Buba

26-05-2025 (Monday/ 1.5 hour): Negin

27-05-2025: Mahla and Lina

03-06-2025: David and Alaina

== '''Midterm Presentations:''' ==
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!10-06-2025
!Oeykue Tuerkan Didinir
|-
!16-06-2025
!
|-
!17-06-2025
!Theo
|-
!23-06-2025
!
|-
!24-06-2025
!Buba
|-
!30-06-2025
!Mahla
|-
!01-07-2025
!
|}

==Recommended Fach courses==

* [https://www.uni-weimar.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=66083&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung Unexpected Imageries - programming generative art] By Ting Chun Liu
* [https://www.uni-weimar.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=66132&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung Aesthetics of Macroworlds] by Alessandro Volpato and Alexander König
* [https://www.uni-weimar.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=66135&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung A investigation in machine learing / "AI"] by Alexander König
* [https://www.uni-weimar.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=66334&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung Computer Aided Fabrication and the Wilderness] by Felix Bonowski
* [https://www.uni-weimar.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=66148&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung Speech to Text to Actions] by Isabella Lee Arturo
* [https://www.uni-weimar.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=66172&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung Technosolutionism + Silicone Nightmares] by Bethan Hughes

==Recommended Artists==
===[https://deweyhagborg.com/ Heather Dewey-Hagborg]===
* [https://deweyhagborg.com/projects/probably-chelsea Probably Chelsea]
"Probably Chelsea is a collection of thirty different possible portraits of whistleblower Chelsea Manning algorithmically-generated by an analysis of her DNA. While she was in prison, forbidden from being visited, she sent me cheek swabs from which I could extract DNA to create her portrait. Genomic data can tell a multitude of different stories about who and what you are. Probably Chelsea shows just how many ways your DNA can be interpreted as data, and how subjective the act of reading DNA really is."

===[https://afroditipsarra.com/ Afroditi Psarra]===
* [https://afroditipsarra.com/work/ventriloquist-ontology Ventriloquist Ontology]
"The project ‘Ventriloquist Ontology’ explores the limits of control and points of hybridization between the human and the machine through the relationship of a performer and a wearable entity. This ventriloquist modular soft entity speaks through text generated using a GPT-2 language model, trained on a dataset of texts around biopolitics, algo-governance, the surveillanced body, and queer theory."

===[https://www.spelapetric.org/ Špela Petrič]===
* [https://www.spelapetric.org/#/plai/ PL'AI]
"PL’AI ... embraces the notion of a play as an ontological condition of all living bodies, including plants. The act of playing, unlike games, which are limited by clear rules or goals, reflects the curiosity of existence and is therefore at the heart of (self)knowing."

===[https://annaridler.com/works Anna Ridler]===
* [https://annaridler.com/circadian-nocturne-2023 Circadian Nocturne]
"Created with artificial intelligence and a high-tech machine that can keep time at an atomic level, Circadian Nocturne also pairs modern, highly precise computerized timekeeping methods with the often unpredictable and imprecise imagery created by autonomous digital software"

===[https://stephanierothenberg.com/ Stephanie Rothenberg]===

==Recommended Literature==
* Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetics
* Hui, Y. (2024). Cybernetics for the 21st Century. Vol. 1: Epistemological Reconstruction. Hong Kong: Hanart Press. Available at https://hanart.press/cybernetics-for-the-21st-century-vol-1/
* Hayles, N. K. 1999. How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. Available at http://thedigitalcommons.org/docs/hayles-posthuman-01.pdf
* AI Uncovered (2024). “Here's How AI 2.0 Will Be DIFFERENT.” Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkS3cG3jCt0

GMU:Hallucinating computers and dreaming non-machines/Mahla Mosahaneh

2025-05-28T00:37:06Z

Mahla Mosah: /* Sinechak /سینه چاک/ */

[[File:Experiment1.png|thumb|571x571px|Experiment-1]]

= '''Sinechak /سینه چاک/''' =
''= The Ripped chest / To rip your chest open''

'''''Meaning(translated from Farsi'''): Suffered, Lover, bothered, sincere /An epic act of love and grief/''

'''''In context:''' Sacrificing all to liberate the truth of self''

== Background ==
The act of ripping the chest open serves as a powerful metaphor for revealing one's true self, embracing vulnerability, and seeking deeper truths. This motif underscores human aspiration toward authenticity and connection, represented across different eastern cultures, specially persian and Indian spiritual practices and literary traditions.

'''''Ibn Arabi''''' interprets this ripping and expansion of the chest as a removal of veils between the individual and divine reality. The heart becomes a polished mirror, capable of reflecting the truth.

'''''Rumi (Jalal al-Din Balkhi)''''' uses chest and heart imagery to refer to the place where pain, love, truth, and divine presence dwell.<blockquote>''“My chest opened like a rose, not to show its beauty, but to release the perfume of secrets I could no longer hold.”''

''"You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens."''

''"You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art."''

''"The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are."''

'''Rumi - Paraphrased from Persian'''

From the flood of events, bright hearts are at peace;

In this ruin, the only commodity is moonlight.

Why does the oyster not split open its chest, O Ṣāʾib?

In this age where not many know the value of a true jewel.

'''Part from Ghazal No. 1660 – Ṣāʾib Tabrīzī'''

"Did We not expand your chest for you?" '''Quran,Surah al-Inshirah, 94:1'''

</blockquote>In ''Hindu mythology'', Hanuman tells Sita that anything in which Lord Ram is not there is of no worth to him. Then, some jealous courtiers ask him that does Ram exist in him? Hanuman tears his chest open, and everyone is stunned to see Lord Ram and Sita in his chest.

== Project Description ==
This project is a hallucinatory search for inner truth through the body as a container of both suffering and transformation. Mythical traditions of self-liberation confront the fragmented, commodified, and technologized subject of late capitalism, recontextualizing its sacred imagery within the dysphoric contemporary body. Dysphoria is framed not only as bodily discomfort, but as a metaphysical disturbance, a rupture between the felt self and the flattened, socially inscribed identity.

The chest becomes a threshold between trauma and transcendence and opening it beyond its assigned surface is a liberating, surgical, and spiritual unmaking of the self.

The aesthetic language of ''Sinechak'' centers on states of dreaming and hallucination as valid modes of sensing the self. Drawing on mythic practices, the project embraces disorientation as a sacred and subversive condition, a tool for radically confronting the reality.

== Technical Description & Medium ==
''- blurring memory, Identity and the body -''

Installation, Collage, fragmented Images and videos, Immersive sound, Unstable Narratives

== References ==
- To be added -

GMU:Hallucinating computers and dreaming non-machines/Mahla Mosahaneh

2025-05-28T00:35:48Z

Mahla Mosah: /* Sinechak /سینه چاک/ */

[[File:Experiment1.png|thumb|608x608px|Experiment-1]]

= '''Sinechak /سینه چاک/''' =
''= The Ripped chest / To rip your chest open''

'''''Meaning(translated from Farsi'''): Suffered, Lover, bothered, sincere /An epic act of love and grief/''

'''''In context:''' Sacrificing all to liberate the truth of self''

== Background ==
The act of ripping the chest open serves as a powerful metaphor for revealing one's true self, embracing vulnerability, and seeking deeper truths. This motif underscores human aspiration toward authenticity and connection, represented across different eastern cultures, specially persian and Indian spiritual practices and literary traditions.

'''''Ibn Arabi''''' interprets this ripping and expansion of the chest as a removal of veils between the individual and divine reality. The heart becomes a polished mirror, capable of reflecting the truth.

'''''Rumi (Jalal al-Din Balkhi)''''' uses chest and heart imagery to refer to the place where pain, love, truth, and divine presence dwell.<blockquote>''“My chest opened like a rose, not to show its beauty, but to release the perfume of secrets I could no longer hold.”''

''"You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens."''

''"You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art."''

''"The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are."''

'''Rumi - Paraphrased from Persian'''

From the flood of events, bright hearts are at peace;

In this ruin, the only commodity is moonlight.

Why does the oyster not split open its chest, O Ṣāʾib?

In this age where not many know the value of a true jewel.

'''Part from Ghazal No. 1660 – Ṣāʾib Tabrīzī'''

"Did We not expand your chest for you?" '''Quran,Surah al-Inshirah, 94:1'''

</blockquote>In ''Hindu mythology'', Hanuman tells Sita that anything in which Lord Ram is not there is of no worth to him. Then, some jealous courtiers ask him that does Ram exist in him? Hanuman tears his chest open, and everyone is stunned to see Lord Ram and Sita in his chest.

== Project Description ==
This project is a hallucinatory search for inner truth through the body as a container of both suffering and transformation. Mythical traditions of self-liberation confront the fragmented, commodified, and technologized subject of late capitalism, recontextualizing its sacred imagery within the dysphoric contemporary body. Dysphoria is framed not only as bodily discomfort, but as a metaphysical disturbance, a rupture between the felt self and the flattened, socially inscribed identity.

The chest becomes a threshold between trauma and transcendence and opening it beyond its assigned surface is a liberating, surgical, and spiritual unmaking of the self.

The aesthetic language of ''Sinechak'' centers on states of dreaming and hallucination as valid modes of sensing the self. Drawing on mythic practices, the project embraces disorientation as a sacred and subversive condition, a tool for radically confronting the reality.

== Technical Description & Medium ==
''- blurring memory, Identity and the body -''

Installation, Collage, fragmented Images and videos, Immersive sound, Unstable Narratives

== References ==
- To be added -

File:Experiment1.png

2025-05-28T00:33:47Z

Mahla Mosah:

Collage

GMU:Hallucinating computers and dreaming non-machines/Mahla Mosahaneh

2025-05-27T03:00:06Z

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= '''Sinechak /سینه چاک/''' =
''= The Ripped chest / To rip your chest open''

'''''Meaning(translated from Farsi'''): Suffered, Lover, bothered, sincere /An epic act of love and grief/''

'''''In context:''' Sacrificing all to liberate the truth of self''

== Background ==
The act of ripping the chest open serves as a powerful metaphor for revealing one's true self, embracing vulnerability, and seeking deeper truths. This motif underscores human aspiration toward authenticity and connection, represented across different eastern cultures, specially persian and Indian spiritual practices and literary traditions.

'''''Ibn Arabi''''' interprets this ripping and expansion of the chest as a removal of veils between the individual and divine reality. The heart becomes a polished mirror, capable of reflecting the truth.

'''''Rumi (Jalal al-Din Balkhi)''''' uses chest and heart imagery to refer to the place where pain, love, truth, and divine presence dwell.<blockquote>''“My chest opened like a rose, not to show its beauty, but to release the perfume of secrets I could no longer hold.”''

''"You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens."''

''"You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art."''

''"The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are."''

'''Rumi - Paraphrased from Persian'''

From the flood of events, bright hearts are at peace;

In this ruin, the only commodity is moonlight.

Why does the oyster not split open its chest, O Ṣāʾib?

In this age where not many know the value of a true jewel.

'''Part from Ghazal No. 1660 – Ṣāʾib Tabrīzī'''

"Did We not expand your chest for you?" '''Quran,Surah al-Inshirah, 94:1'''

</blockquote>In ''Hindu mythology'', Hanuman tells Sita that anything in which Lord Ram is not there is of no worth to him. Then, some jealous courtiers ask him that does Ram exist in him? Hanuman tears his chest open, and everyone is stunned to see Lord Ram and Sita in his chest.

== Project Description ==
This project is a hallucinatory search for inner truth through the body as a container of both suffering and transformation. Mythical traditions of self-liberation confront the fragmented, commodified, and technologized subject of late capitalism, recontextualizing its sacred imagery within the dysphoric contemporary body. Dysphoria is framed not only as bodily discomfort, but as a metaphysical disturbance, a rupture between the felt self and the flattened, socially inscribed identity.

The chest becomes a threshold between trauma and transcendence and opening it beyond its assigned surface is a liberating, surgical, and spiritual unmaking of the self.

The aesthetic language of ''Sinechak'' centers on states of dreaming and hallucination as valid modes of sensing the self. Drawing on mythic practices, the project embraces disorientation as a sacred and subversive condition, a tool for radically confronting the reality.

== Technical Description & Medium ==
''- blurring memory, Identity and the body -''

Installation, Collage, fragmented Images and videos, Immersive sound, Unstable Narratives

== References ==
- To be added -