Talk:Exe0.2 Molly Schwartz

hi Molly. thanks you for this very interesting text. I cannot wait to try out the installation - is sounds very compelling, but it is quite hard to imagine and say anything about the experience before I have tried it. Anyway, your initial question - does speculative fiction serve primarily to run an alternative present or debug the future? - is very interesting. Very similar to my methodological use of speculative design/design fiction to imagine alternative presents / possible futures of design. Also the influence of science fiction in your work I found really relatable to my own influence of the Bataille novel. I am wondering if the sci-fi novel of yours relates more to present/future societal and political issues of religion and conversion, and/or if these also includes technological aspects? I guess they are somehow related but I would like to hear more about your thoughts on the role of code and technology in these stories/narratives, not only as a metaphor for the execution of reading/writing, but maybe more ... I don't know. Maybe it is expressed through 'test code', as you write, or maybe it could be expressed as somehow 'prototyping' the future? It is something I struggle with my self, the inclusion of technological aspects in fiction as if/how I should response to this in my practice. Additionally, I really like your bold choice of topic. Did you think about how/if Geoff's talk on violence and terror at last execution relates to the fictional universe? Is the somehow passive experience of 3D - just watching scenes pass by - relate to the present situation of terrorism, or does it somehow relates to the submissive role of women in the fiction? I'm trying to get at how the medium of your installation itself mimic, express, or alter the narrative. Maybe we can discuss this question at the workshop :-) see you soon - ml. p.s. sorry for the delayed comment