UFO
UFO is not a university in a traditional sense—or in any sense. It is a model, continuously revising what a university is or could be. Its goal is to act as a transformative vehicle, capable of moving through impossible spaces and concepts. It operates with complexity, computation, dynamics, ontology, and intelligence, which form the bedrock of the transformative formations that emerge through its behavior and characteristics.
We are living in a time when existing structures and organizations are being stripped down. Their true face is exposed: a lack of care for humanity at their core, built entirely on power and struggle. Our task begins with recognizing this, and understanding ourselves as a force capable of transforming struggle into a different kind of power.
We have, historically, given our power away to a small few. But that no longer makes sense—these figures no longer carry any real organizational value. What is emerging is the possibility for any character to rise into such positions. Not the same positions, but new configurations—new forms. This opens up a global scale of resistance, because the mediatory connections that once held power in place are dissolving through the mutation of existing structures. Not their total destruction, but a selective removal and addition—a mutation that turns them into something far more horrible.
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Henrietta Scholtz
Ancient Waymaker: An Oral Ruttier
This video performance lecture is rooted in the ancient mariner tradition of using oral poetry as a navigational guide. Here deconstructed and reinterpreted for voyage on land and cognitive landscapes via visuals, text and sound. This transcends temporal boundaries and journeys an archeological landscape.
The threads of an imagined/artificial consciousness emerges as an anthro-posthuman leitmotif,and invites introspection on the evolving relationship between humankind and technology; implications of technological interventions on human cognition, identity, and emotive dispositions. It reflects on the coalescence of human awakening/ingenuity with the technoscape of the present, future and past.