Pattern Recognition and Transportna: When wounds speak
Pattern Recognition (2003), by William Gibson Transportna's logo In Pattern Recognition William Gibson imagined a world where anonymous film fragments pulsed from a cultural wound and found an audience who built a community around them. In Transportna, we encounter music that may emerge from humans and code yet still cuts close to the heart. Between them lies a question not about technology, but about what we are willing to feel — and believe — when art speaks without a stable author, and the link between life and art, reality, art and truth. Fetish : Footage : Forum In Pattern Recognition (2003), a series of enigmatic film fragments known only as “the footage” appears online and gathers a devoted following. Cayce Pollard, the main character, moving through a mirror-world London in a state of jet-lag she calls a type of soul delay, spends her nights on Fetish:Footage:Forum — a cult-like discussion space where obsessives trade theories about origin, chronology and authorship. Th...