al-jabr > FleSH-n-FLASH@The_Gates_of_Baghdad & Other Equations

Exploring the micro-narrative potentiality of the Flash program, al-jabr & Other Equations is a convergence of four works from the Doctoral research of Julainne Sumich.

Sumich's central work al-jabr > FleSH-n-FLASH@The_Gates_of_
Baghdad notes that, like the military, Flash uses buttons to trigger events. On release they both "go to And play". Underpinning this tactic, al-jabr creates an allegorical equation between the principles characterized by the theory of relativity and Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle. It is a synopsis of questions concerning technology that break apart and regroup in new forms of expression.

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