ICON LAB
Grace Hopper’s Log Book with Computer Bug. NMAH-92-13129 (c) Smithsonian Institution
(untitled, undated) Peter Mulindwa, Makerere Art Collection, Makerere University, Kampala
The Acrobatic Fly by F. Percy Smith (1910)
Cheese Mites by Charles Urban (1903)
Stenographics 2 by Lucien Bull (1904-5)
"Oh yes," she smiled. "I do not wonder you are puzzled. We are mothers-all of us-but there are no fathers. We thought you would ask about that long ago-why have you not?" Her look was as frankly kind as always, her tone quite simple.
Terry explained that we had not felt sufficiently used to the language, making rather a mess of it, I thought, but Jeff was franker.
"Will you excuse us all," he said, "if we admit that we find it hard to believe? There is no such-possibility-in the rest of the world."
"Have you no kind of life where it is possible?" asked Zava.
"Why, yes - some low forms, of course."
"How low-or how high, rather?"
"Well-there are some rather high forms of insect life in which it occurs. Parthenogenesis, we call it - that means virgin birth."
She could not follow him.
"Birth, we know, of course; but what is virgin?"
"Natural. . . ." Like ants, he thinks. They twiddle their antennae together every time they meet. Where did you go, what did you do? Twiddle-twiddle. How do you feel? Oh, I feel this, I feel that, blah blah twiddle-twiddle. Total coordination of the hive. Women have no self-respect. Say anything, no sense of the strategy of words, the dark danger of naming. Can't hold in.
"Ants, beehives." Connie laughs, showing the bad tooth. "You truly see us as insects, don't you? Because they're females?"
"Was I talking aloud? I'm sorry." He blinks away dreams.
Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1915)
Houston, Houston, Do You Read? by James Tiptree (1976)
Mothra directed by Ishirō Honda, and written by Shinichi Sekizawa (1961)
01:55 PM
We write what we see?
01:55 PM
(moth)
01:55 PM
carcass
01:55 PM
Decay
01:55 PM
Original
01:56 PM
Process of thought
01:56 PM
Original
01:56 PM
Cellotape
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Armour
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Trapped Non-Human
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postcard
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anguish
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sticky
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skeleton
01:56 PM
death moth
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gross
01:56 PM
Timeline
01:56 PM
dead moth*
01:57 PM
sickness
01:57 PM
animal alphabet
01:57 PM
scientific reductionism
01:57 PM
uncertainty of the future
01:57 PM
The moth seems to be leaning towards one side suggesting that it is not in a comfortable position both mentally and physically?
01:57 PM
"first actual case of bug"
01:57 PM
Exo skeleton as disposable armour
01:58 PM
metamorphosis
01:58 PM
Acceptance
01:58 PM
Making meaning
01:58 PM
The end of all fluttering
01:58 PM
Excavation
01:58 PM
looking from a distance
01:58 PM
the moth looks like it feels at home at the same time trapped
01:58 PM
beginning of war (against the moths)
01:59 PM
1545
02:06 PM
Hi, who did you cite here?
02:06 PM
Susan schuppli - Of Moth and Machine
02:06 PM
thank you :)
02:07 PM
This is interesting!
02:07 PM
Can we throw it out once its purpose it fulfilled as it’s triggering all sorts of phobias?
02:08 PM
yes
02:09 PM
fuzzy
02:09 PM
creatures
02:09 PM
pattterns
02:09 PM
eyes
02:09 PM
Can you please zoom in an out a bit
02:09 PM
patterns*
02:09 PM
Hairy monsters
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nightmare
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microscopic reality
02:10 PM
Orgiastic feast
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death
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Kafka when he painted
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Vision
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party
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high
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habitat
02:11 PM
chaos
02:11 PM
directions
02:11 PM
multiplicity
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invasion
02:11 PM
claws
02:11 PM
Ants? And other belowground beings?
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alien
02:12 PM
night crawlers
02:12 PM
itchy
02:13 PM
they seem to be at ease, not running away from or alert to predators
02:13 PM
what do we write now?
02:13 PM
they seem to be looking at something which is outside of the canvas itself
02:14 PM
I see these patterns not as creatures
02:14 PM
even at microscopic scale some things are bigger than others
02:14 PM
Decomposition leading to manifestation and thrive of new life
02:15 PM
a similarity between things
02:15 PM
they have arranged themselves as hyerogliphis
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Unidentifiable, but animals nonetheless with centralised optic systems (eyes everywhere)
02:15 PM
and beaks. and nails.
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composting of bodies
02:16 PM
Birds, lizards, mammals, all?
02:16 PM
they have a sinister look, like dark unwanted thoughts lingering on
02:17 PM
they represent our unknown fears and inner chaotic thoughts
looking at their little eyes, they also remind me of disasters in comedic forms
02:20 PM
the comedic elements reminds me of an animated tv show from childhood
Oggy and the Cockroaches
02:23 PM
I did :-)
02:43 PM
Media news trying to magnify the lies as it is more entertaining than the truth
02:43 PM
two levels of observation
02:44 PM
Ninja fly!
02:44 PM
parasite recipe for lunch
02:44 PM
gymnastics aspirant
02:44 PM
Everybody was kungfu fighting indeed 😅
02:45 PM
It is now the fly studying an object
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Struggle for existence!
02:45 PM
is the wing of the fly nailed to the post? I see something resembling a nail
02:45 PM
Strength
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modes of interaction with objects and fellow insects
02:46 PM
Wondering that too re: post, do flies typically lie on their wings?
02:46 PM
i work out 🏋️♂️
02:46 PM
Dancing
02:46 PM
anthropomorphic
02:46 PM
And we must imagine Sisyphly happy! :-)
02:47 PM
fly searching for gravity
02:47 PM
Jeff goldblum
02:48 PM
acrobatic desires
02:48 PM
A fruitless struggle
02:48 PM
an embodied bug
02:49 PM
cause and effect
02:49 PM
So many legs and nowhere to run
02:49 PM
A bug on a throne
02:50 PM
the fly doing human things does not fit the fly and we see it as peculiar, hence drawing our attention
02:38 PM
enlarging data
02:39 PM
chores (both eating and reading)
a world within a bigger world
02:40 PM
A new kind of crab cake for lunch
02:40 PM
proteins!!!
02:40 PM
culture
02:40 PM
We all are as purposeless; —D I identify with these blobs. Love microscopic film.
02:41 PM
The microscopic images were very similar to the mythological painting reference
02:41 PM
Self-importance of the man is also special. So special
02:41 PM
A peaceful lunch turned chaotic
02:42 PM
In a moment, the lens shifts. That moment is interesting
Also is interesting that there is a real lens in the film!
:—)
02:42 PM
If we are what we eat, we’re infinitely multiple
02:24 PM
a fragile windmill
02:25 PM
Mechanic insect
02:25 PM
Mike Pence
02:25 PM
HAHAH
Wings
02:25 PM
transparents propellers
02:26 PM
Dragonfly under surveillance. Dragonfly clockwork. Dragonfly as subject. Invasive
02:26 PM
Noise
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Frightful silhouettes
02:26 PM
trapped
02:26 PM
black and white
02:27 PM
Ruler
02:27 PM
Length of a flight
02:27 PM
Movement from left to right side of screen mimicking the act of writing
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Scientific measurements
02:27 PM
movement study
02:27 PM
no gravity
02:27 PM
resilience
Von Sandy an alle: 02:27 PM
Speed and direction
Von Lalramengmawia Khenglawt an alle: 02:27 PM
probing or investigating
02:28 PM
Falling
02:28 PM
Testing on animals
02:28 PM
Slow-motion
02:28 PM
the mathematical theory of chaos and his curve
02:28 PM
dust on the lens
02:28 PM
A hairy little dude
02:28 PM
gif image of a black n white dragon
02:29 PM
needles
02:29 PM
learning to fly
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Spindly legs
02:30 PM
a leap of faith
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Repetition
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vintage
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dial
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stuck in a moment
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Fragmented film
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trying the same thing over and over again
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Stop motion
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found footage
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an accident during celluloid scanning
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I feel pain.
02:32 PM
The erosion of borders between organic and inorganic objects
02:32 PM
an early experiment on motion
02:33 PM
we can see a seemingly ragged windmill turning into a dragonfly, so it's about breaking free from one's chains
02:33 PM
The first screen divas
02:33 PM
Edward muybridge-esque
02:33 PM
how unfortunate that they are tiny, or else they could be our personal flying machine
02:33 PM
emancipation
02:33 PM
How unfortunate that we’re not tiny\
02:34 PM
invading the privacy of a first attempt in flying and its struggles
02:34 PM
Actually I take that back, I’d hate me-sized insects
02:34 PM
I would love you insect-sized Sandy...
02:34 PM
navigating air
02:35 PM
tiny like in the movie with Matt Damon? ….
02:35 PM
The worst film I’ve ever seen on acid
02:35 PM
ahahah
02:35 PM
boredom, the fact that we're fixating on such a tiny little thing
02:36 PM
if humans were capable of flight, maybe we won't view it as special :)
02:36 PM
i find it compelling in its details…a sort of mindfulness practice