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We Are All Cyborgs Now

The work identifies dance floors and rituals as safe spaces. The 7’ audio visual poem We Are All Cyborgs Now situates the social contract on the dance floors, where non verbal communications take place without being (yet?) surveilled. The voices’ cut-ups about surveillance compose the soundtrack, while texts are extracted from thoughts I had while attending online research on surveillance.

The idea suggests that digital worlds (and surveillances) and virtualities must be decolonised and decentralised. This is a call for a plural vision of those worlds, which are after all augmentation of selves, and immersions of selves as communities. The field of possibilities within digital spaces — by paralleling my work with traditional knowledge systems — reveals how pre-conscious and prehension in digital encounters create conditions of trust, threat, and belonging that determine our collective capacity to inhabit shared virtual territories with our bodies. This approach offers new perspectives on what digital security represents fundamentally about the architecture of communities formation rather than merely technological protection.

Interview with Luca Forcucci