#HYPERTEXTEDIT (2014+)

is both a verb as well as a noun. As a verb, #HYPERTEXTEDIT is a form of psychic-typing or live-transcription process, responding to verbal, written, unspoken conscious thoughts as well as intuitive observations about one’s physical and digital surroundings, coupled with sporadic google searches and deep dives on the internet, not always in a foreseeable, reasonable manner, but mostly relying on intuition and responding to observations and environmental stimuli. This is most often done in while in a state of trance, and only comprehended later. The output of this process usually ends with a raw screen recording video, however long (anywhere from 60 seconds to 8 hours so far). These video recordings are usually sped up and compressed to durations of 4 minutes and 33 seconds, a quiet nod to John Cage’s infamous 4’33” composition.

There is a growing archive (noun) of over 100 video #HYPERTEXTEDIT recordings:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoVTJYgZk_I4AYHd0t6kFn04DpHqpIhjm

This peculiar technique/method of being (verb) has been very friendly to collaboration, and has been used and performed in gallery installations, live performances, live lectures, symposiums, book transcripts, crowd transcriptions, facebook groups, discussions, live streams, and more. A well-known example would be “Xenoarchitecture” (2017), a collaboration with the philosopher Armen Avanessian and architect Markus Miessen (Kaaitheater, Brussels), amongst other artists, composers and more from various countries —> https://youtu.be/d6RPyX7p0nc