{"id":21,"date":"2025-01-10T01:10:04","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T01:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vwmproject.pt\/?page_id=21"},"modified":"2025-05-31T14:00:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T14:00:27","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vwmproject.pt\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"389\" src=\"https:\/\/vwmproject.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/home.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vwmproject.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/home.png 2000w, https:\/\/vwmproject.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/home-300x58.png 300w, https:\/\/vwmproject.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/home-1024x199.png 1024w, https:\/\/vwmproject.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/home-768x149.png 768w, https:\/\/vwmproject.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/home-1536x299.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-small-font-size is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-palette-color-3-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>We soon discover that everything that manifests itself and is sensitive needs to be witnessed in order to at least almost exist for us.\u00a0It is for this reason that we are accomplices in a world that exists indifferent to any solitude, a world that itself has never needed witnesses, has never found meaning in being thought about or deciphered, resisting the superhuman effort of representation at all<em> times.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Paiva e Gusm\u00e3o, 2012, p.21)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"430\" src=\"https:\/\/vwmproject.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG-20241221-WA0017-1024x430.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vwmproject.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG-20241221-WA0017-1024x430.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vwmproject.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG-20241221-WA0017-300x126.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vwmproject.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG-20241221-WA0017-768x322.jpg 768w, https:\/\/vwmproject.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG-20241221-WA0017-1536x645.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/vwmproject.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG-20241221-WA0017.jpg 2040w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This website constitutes an open-ended account, written from a controversial first-person perspective \u2014 A first-person subject in relation to the machine and to natural elements \u2014 light, wind, and their fluctuations. Here, I document the pursuit of an idea of landscape that, emerging from a questioning of Language as a dispositif, proposes a poetic orientation shaped by machinic agency. It seeks to glimpse the potential of a (v)ideogrammatic mediation, where image, sound, and code intertwine in the inscription of an expanded sensibility.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This digital space accompanies an ongoing research project \u2014 a journey that remains deliberately open. The machine presented here results from a process of technical individuation which, by shedding its accessory components, moves towards its essential core. It is through this gesture of stripping down and expansion that the conditions arise for the machine to exceed itself, surpassing its functional limits and entering the domain of the poetic.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The presumptive aesthetic object I attempt to generate through this dialogue with the machine and natural elements carries the memory of all the times I have walked along a riverbank. That margin \u2014 often that of a river \u2014 is a space of latency, where something of the &#8220;original magical phase&#8221; evoked by Gilbert Simondon reveals itself. It is within this site of contact that the experience becomes geo-referenced, tracing an inscription between the natural, the technical, and the sensitive.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The river is always present. 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This process emerges from a transductive relationship between a technical compound and the natural elements of the mediated sites, namely air masses, light, and their fluctuations. This relationship does not merely translate the sensory or technical dimensions of the landscape; rather, it enables the emergence of a certain idea of landscape, constructed within the tension between the natural and the machinic, the visible and the latent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The (v)Ideogrammatic Writing Machine exceeds itself by transcending its instrumental function, revealing \u2014 through its process of technical individuation \u2014 the capacity to inscribe the real poetically. 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