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"orphan drift work by belief that what they perceive of as the real is made up of a mixture of virtual and actual and they try to expose the
workings of that circuit. Using various fictions to symbolize insistent cultural patterns, giving them names and forms (avatars)."
The fictions then become catalysts for exposing us and the viewers alike to immersive experience.
OD want the audience to be unable to determine the boundaries of the space and its relationship to the real: for them to respond in
the circuits between technology and rumor, information and mystery which proliferate in our mediated electronic landscape.
Orphan drift developed five avatars in 1999 that have stuck with us thematically.
There is Katak: who is friction,brutality,radiation the artificial element.meltdown.
Fever, madness, and atrocity. pounding solar waves. cataclysmic convergences. pressure sun heat electricity.
DNA fuckups. escape velocity. mean symmetries. fanatical. the artificial night spending and being spent. atomic breath.
Then Spl/ce: the nomad war machine. Time crisis and cyclic discontinuity.Replicating precarious states. swarm. suck radius: exhales
insanity.a strobing black-mass of chronodisintegration. unstable dramatic shocks. no linearity. abduction.
twin-tracking through traumatic dissociation (whilst constantly doubling-back). machine-memory deep inside. atomic particles of
lost touch.
And Xes: erotic, magnetic mutation, currency waves, cellular radiating. physical telepathy and trickster touch. addiction.
seduces with ecstasy and pain. codes your want. evolutionary risk factor. intimatter traffic. third eye scar.
silicon/clone/labyrinth. glitter/trance/attention.
Murmur: Liquid camouflage. perception warp. wet metal. waiting. bent light. bent time. shapeshifters. spinal fluid.
fed on dreams and mercury. immersive weave. oceanic sensation. mergings. makes monsters and waves.
Uttunul/IIs: zero intensity flatline. shadow luminescence. undead. strange attraction. time vampire. feeds on time rather than blood.
the furthest out and the deepest inside. hypothermia feedback seeping circuit. seething void. utter atonality. the body without organs.

These fictions are the twin of the work production, in that both actualize the feedback of interacting with the machines.
Fictions they create involve vibration, magnetic fields, entities in other dimensions.They trigger technics of manifestation
associated both with virtual reality and older forms of cultural production, such as voodoo, part urban fuckup, part sci fi. and
emphasise proliferating circuits between.the work and fiction.
They each have numerous guises ranging from the recognizably human-like (or iconic), to the abstract (eg. texture, rythym and
speed in sound), to the elemental (eg. a flowing river or molten metal).
It is this trade between the 'artificial' and the 'real' which motivates OD´s interest in the methods of Voodou and other ritual
traditions of African origin.
These collective practices model the virtual as it interacts with the physical world. The Loa (spirits) of voodou are thought of as
ancestors which can temporarily inhabit living bodies.
They each maintain their specific characteristics and domains whilst also changing with time and circumstance.
This flexibility ensures that they always reflect contemporary needs and desires, rather than maintaining a fixed ideal.
Voodou recurs as a theme in much literature about cyberspace and information technology because many new sciences and
engineering systems work with response oriented models that significantly alter prior conceptions of subject/object relations.
Voodou possession treats the body as a rhythmic process receptive to ancient or futural entities.
These virtual non-human agencies link human bodies into wider time circuits through rhythm. drowned in outside.
neurotic discrete repetition. matter has virtual zones of existence.

You are a precarious blank meme. placed to succumb.
hacked dna is the interface with dynamic systems. intelligence dives into its own materiality. touching. responding out of the body.
reaching to unfix. one body two speeds searches in escape velocity.
incendiary data particles navigating in detail. complexity. frequency. intensity. lines of manifestation.
these sounds. as indifferent as the cyclone out there. models intensity. subversive and subliminal. slow channels the codes.
invades the core. anti social and intimate.

intimate:
entering deeply or closely into matter. cellular. informational brain spread weave. can't see but continue to find.
speeding towards collision with abstract machines.
machines read your processes. implanting machine memory deep inside. machine faciality deep inside. atomic interface.
avataraliens embedded under skins. through. touch. filigree chip intricacy replacing the thick slow space of logic. mutating. matching.
in down the spines. into the wired stillness that registers everything as vibration. an invasion rather than behaviour aquisition.
evolution of one as it contacts and simulates one and two. attack in collusion.
vibration is the capacity to unfix at an atomic level. it melts boundaries between things. it melts things into boundaries.
vibration is the potential for movement.
vibration is the technics of change.
vibration happens always to substance.
it is its state of responding. it touches in micro levels of matter. it produces reverb. it is at the core of every system. every organism.
every machine.
It materializes change. unstable atoms change state at certain frequencies. fluid tsunami. planes of viral. shifting.
encoding phase transition. moulting human.
resonant fibrous pulsing into the DNAs binary codons. already the molecular body moves information around between two speeds.
light and sound.
it is a resonant matrix. resonance. the quality of active sounding again.
it is always a circuit.
information is in the frequency of reverberation. the level of a sustained frequency determines what matter is affected.
what pattern matches.
a new species. as interface. a facilitator. its territory is the real.

prowl emergent.