Even the Blue One

This is a video excerpt from the on-going project "On Ducks, Turks & the Apocalypse" that works as a standalone sci-fi poem. The project, titled in reference to famous 17th century automata as the Digestive Duck and the Mechanical Turk, revolves around the emergence of "mechanized" subjectivity, inextricably linked to Modernity's central narratives. Contrary to many past and present techno-scientific views that often reduce intelligence to abstract mathematical properties, the project focuses on the materiality of information and cognition, looking at human memory and consiousness as emergent properties deeply intertwined with the emotional qualities that a suffering living organism experiences.