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Intelligence is about the expansion of knowledge to form an understanding of the world and other people. Part of this expansion means recognizing new information, and creating a network out of this information. A fundamental part of creating this network is the identification of patterns, and with these patterns forming connections about and between different data points. The creation of these networks and connections is what brings true understanding on a subject, these abilities presupposing intelligence.

3 KEYWORDS: Network, Connections, Understanding

The first image is a sketching of my ideas for images to exemplify my keywords.

NETWORK: Image 2 is a result of a p5.js code I wrote that creates a network of nodes from two starting nodes. The colorful lines are connections made between nodes of the same color.

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CONNECTIONS: Image 3 is a digital drawing I did on procreate meant to represent the patterns humans identify in nature, creating fictional connections. These patterns may not have any actual connection (the cloud isn't really a bunny, and the stars aren't purposefully representing anything we know), but they were connections we created due to our intelligence.

UNDERSTANDING: Image 4 is a collage between an anatomical image and a digital drawing. This is meant to be a representation of emotional recognition and sympathy, which is a way we understand other human beings. I wanted the anatomical aspect as a reminder that despite the fact it is an emotional reflection, they are still based on a subconscious logical connection. We can't sympathize without the ability to look at previously catalogued examples of our own emotions, as well as make the connection between that experience and the expressions of the person in front of us.

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It's interesting to see a past record of actions done.

However, I wish that it was updated up to the present. Maybe it doesn't matter, since b.a.n.g. lab has their own site.

It's also interesting to see the range of actions that Floodnet has taken.

I have been extremely, extremely busy with a play production/organizing for March 1st, but I'm finally able to do some reading and eventually catch up on the reading I've missed, because it's all extremely interesting!

I like this: "the imposition of any one metaphor has a performative effect on the cyberreality it describes, turning cyberspace into the domain of private ownership, or frontier outposts, or rhizomatic community. “Each map,” says Dominguez, 'creates a different line of  sight, a different form of security, and a different pocket of resistance'"

Such an amazing gesture, to attack w/ paper airplanes. The Zapatistas are inspiring performative artists and strugglers.

 "understanding both as performances that combine political protest with conceptual art in an act of social revelation: both involve a simulation of flight and attack that reveals and reverses the logic of military and social domination"

I wonder where this fits on spectrum of gesture/action, metaphor/metonym

or is this in the totally different sphere of intervention? I think so.

this is why it is a poetic gesture: "thousands of armed troops and real airplanes are dispatched to “Žfight” communities armed with little more than paper". It's not power vs. power. It's exposing power.

"embodiment is itself an effect produced by the processes through which bodies are imagined and constituted. If embodiment is an effect, we can, she writes, 'begin to ask questions about how the body is staged differently in different environments'" - Balsamo

hacking theory - "physical, which would engage and possibly harm the hardware itself; syntactical (a favorite of hackers), which would involve changing the codes by which the machine functions—programming, software, design; and Ž- finally, semantic, which involves engaging and undermining the discursive norms and realities of the system as a whole"