Origin of the Word
Talks /
At the Machinic Language Symposium hosted at UAL, Melanie Hoff touched on some critical ideas about what language does under the shifting pressures of code and environment. Through examples from performance, computation, and collective experiments, she showed how language actively shapes how we relate, communicate, and make sense of the world. Melanie describes language as a lived system of sensation shaped by code, culture, and power that dictates how we understand ourselves and the world. It can be consciously and collectively redesigned in response to the systems and environments we operating within.
