Domain Errors

config.style.page.font: "courier/serif 18" config.style.page.color: "gray-9 on white" config.style.page.link.font: "underline" config.style.page.link.color: "gray-9" config.style.page.link.lineColor: "red-8" config.style.page.link.active.color: "red-8 on red-0" config.style.page.header.font: "16" config.style.page.header.link.font: "small caps" config.style.page.footer.font: "16" config.style.page.footer.link.font: "small caps" -- Hello, my name is Aceso. I will serve as your guide today. The world is riddled with both biological and cultural diseases where biotechnology, biometrics, and biosurveillance offer relief through algorithms, information and image overload. If we collect enough data, we can come to a resolution about how to mend ourselves and those around us. The digital space has quickly become a landscape for all people. Physical space has become a nefarious place especially for women, both transgender and cisgender, as well as Native American and queer bodies. I have a personal question before we proceed: Are you invisible or visible in your location? <span class="drunk">[[Invisible]]</span> <span class="glitchy" data-text="Beware">[[Visible]]</span>

Do you want to remain invisible? If yes, proceed to [[invisibility]]. If no, proceed to [[visibility]].

In Lucia Sommer’s essay "In/Visible Body: Notes on Biotechnologies Vision," she asks the following question: “How does the body, that most vulnerable of territories, fare in the relentless expansion of the sight machine?” Is it possible to die of hypervisibility? According to Sommer, women such Saartjie Baartman were subjected to both display and pathologization--hypervisibility was fatal. Are you sure you want to remain visible? If you wish to remain visible, go to [[visibility]].

So, you have chosen to remain unseen. Invisibility can certainly offer a protective shield. Before you proceed, you will need to ensure the destruction of the following: medical records, all bank and financial accounts, citizenship of your home of origin as well as the country to which you immigrated, your children, pets, belongings, and your home (if applicable). Proceed to [[unseen]].

Visibility can harm and kill you, but if you are careful and fast, you may be able to elude danger. Are you… a cisgender straight white man? Then you are: [[granted full immunity]] OR a cisgender straight white woman? Then you are: [[granted partial immunity]] For all other identifications, please proceed to [[the Lab]] for all other options. ... Of course, we are all susceptible to [[danger]]

You have been granted the option to refuse submission of data and biometrics or inclusion of your data for your benefit. Please proceed without caution or risk. [[End]]

You have been granted the option to refuse submission of data and biometrics or inclusion of your data for your benefit. But you are required to submit biodata on reproductive capacity. Please proceed with minor caution or risk. [[End]]

You have a strong desire to be visible. For whatever reason, you see yourself as invincible and, perhaps, untouchable. A twisted logic presents itself to you. You believe, once you cease to exist and live with the guise of nonrecognition, you will lose something valuable. Yet your movements, gestures, transactions, desires, and all you love have already ceased to belong to you. Do you believe you will be in danger by leaving it all behind? The danger of losing yourself in a familiar place, maybe a location you thought was home. Haven’t we all lost more and more of ourselves through the fiber optic cables, and entered into fantastical realms? Or, perhaps, nonrecognition equates to danger because it means you will cease to be remembered as well as recognized. You clearly have chosen the ascetic’s life. Enter a [[place of danger]]. Good luck.

You will be required to create skin grafts from synthetic material, which may take anywhere between 3 and 5 months to create and an additional 5 months for the synthetic skin to fuse to your cellular structure. You will be given the option to choose either allogeneic (same species, human to human) or xenogeneic (different species, amphibian to human) graft taxonomy to be performed. >>> Do you identify as a... [[Black woman]] [[Black man]] [[Native American]] [[Asian]] [[Latinx]] [[Queer, Trans and Black and/or Brown]] [[Queer, Trans and Black and/or Brown and Disabled]] Please note: Statistical Data is derived from the National Center for Health Statistics, a part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Now that you have chosen to remain unseen, you have also opted into anonymity and what Lucia Sommer has called “non-recognition.” To human eyes, machine vision, and the perception of the State, you are now undetectable. In waking life, my body has been subjected to non-recognition. My mother as well, her physical pains, scars, marks, and generational trauma forged as an illusion and a figment of her subconscious stemming from the contours of her imagination. [[End]]

You are a target and are marked as hypervisible; 13.6% of your population is in fair to poor health. You are responsible for grafting and suturing a special skin for survival. If you so choose, please proceed to [[grafting lab]]. OR proceed directly to your birthright within the [[supernatural realm]]

You are a target and are as hypervisible; 13.6% of your population is in fair to poor health. You are responsible for grafting and suturing a special skin for survival. If you so choose, please proceed to [[grafting lab]]. OR proceed directly to your birthright within the [[supernatural realm]]

You are a target and are marked as hypervisible; 16.2% of your population is in fair to poor health. You are responsible for grafting and suturing a special skin for survival. If you so choose, please proceed to [[grafting lab]]. OR proceed directly to your birthright within the [[supernatural realm]]

You are marked as hypervisible; 7.5% of your population is in fair to poor health. You are responsible for grafting and suturing a special skin for survival. If you so choose, please proceed to [[grafting lab]]. OR proceed directly to your birthright within the [[supernatural realm]]

You are marked as hypervisible; 10.4% of your population is in fair to poor health. You are responsible for grafting and suturing a special skin for survival. If you so choose, please proceed to [[grafting lab]]. OR proceed directly to your birthright within the [[supernatural realm]]

You are marked as hypervisible; unfortunately, no statistics provided by the National Center for Health Statistics. You are responsible for grafting and suturing a special skin for survival. If you so choose, please proceed to [[grafting lab]]. OR proceed directly to your birthright within the [[supernatural realm]]

You are marked as hypervisible; no statistics provided by the National Center for Health Statistics. You are responsible for grafting and suturing a special skin for survival. If you so choose, please proceed to [[grafting lab]]. OR proceed directly to your birthright within the [[supernatural realm]]

You have chosen your birthright to the supernatural. Despite the many images, both moving and still, and transmissions misleading you to believe your fate was forever doomed to danger or acquiescence, you live beyond the physical. In the realm and place of the domain error, you control far more than you imagine. Danger is a construct for those unwilling to go beyond the digital. The supernatural is meant for those individuals meant to coalesce in the multiplicity of human experience. You are always safe within your birthright. Complete transition into the [[supernatural]]

Thank you for granting your consent. You are now in the grafting lab. Nonrecognition by machines, other humans, and non-humans will… keep me [[safe]] put me in a [[place of danger]] You also have the option of taking on a xenogeneic skin. Since we are still in the nascent stages of this particular technology, the choices are limited and you will need to provide your consent to advance. [[Consent granted]] ~ ~ ~ ~ Or, take me to a nonexistence space, only penetrable by hyperconscious beings and nonhuman entities within the [[supernatural realm]]

You seek nonrecognition among the 7 billion humans on earth. The alleged status of being off-the-grid enables you to seek out refuge in alternate economic structures and the deep, dark web within the flickering lights of some far off server. You are not one of those lights. In fact, your digital spirit has floated off and away never to be found again, lost in some primordial motherboard buried deep within a heap barely melting from the hot sun and waiting for an eager young human to rip the board to shreds for parts. You are the dust between the resistors and transducers. You are a defunct actuator, but at least, you’re at peace within the rubble. You are safe. You are beyond recognition. Enter [[domain error]]

You call out to your ancestors and predecessors. They are far gone from the visibility machines and devices you clutch. You have decided to let go of the concepts of safety and danger. The machines no longer hurt you. They say they were never meant to hurt anyone, but you and I know this is not true. It was bound and fated for you to return to your cellular and molecular roots--your DNA. Go beyond letting the machine mine your genetic makeup. Become the multifaced being beyond the unseen. Your existence is beyond facial recognition. You will be granted a gift far greater than full immunity. You will now enter the realm of the supernatural. [[Transcend]]

You have decided to become a machine. You embrace the synthetic parts engineered to turn you into a device. Now, your place in the world is one of service to another. In this place, you will find the errorless, glitch-free and operations perfected for 100% accuracy in all functions. You are safe. You hold the domain of both the physical and the digital and you never retire, expire, or break unless purposefully taken apart due to human error, which may render you useless. But the likelihood of this occurrence is low. [[End]]

The ascetic’s life may force you into a life of isolation after approximately 10,000 hours from onset of hypervisibility. For those unaware, hypervisibility subjects an individual to extreme intellectual, mental, and physical disturbances. You will be judged, rated, ranked, categorized, and a taxonomy of your movements, decisions, and search behaviors will be tracked on all machines. Your physical movements will also be dictated by occupation as well as your socioeconomic ranking, which may or may not be of benefit should you decide to choose hypervisibility. Please note: You will be given a new human skin chosen at random. You will be given no choice of your appearance. [[End]]

Return [[Home]]

Make your selection now: [[alligator]] [[bat]] [[frog]] [[snake]]

This message confirms your selection of alligator (Alligator Mississippiensis) skin. Please allow 90 days for a complete symbiosis to occur. After this time period, if you would like to proceed beyond phenotype and explore an option into parabiosis, which is a procedure that joins two animals' circulatory systems together, we will need to perform extensive testing. Please be aware of the risks. In your new skin, you will be able to withstand high heat, humidity, and extended wading periods in shallow waters. Please be aware that your new skin may not be advisable for flight travel and high altitudes. Good luck! [[End]]

This message confirms your selection of the winged membrane of a bat (Chiroptera). Please allow 90 days for a complete symbiosis to occur. After this time period, if you would like to proceed beyond phenotype and explore an option into parabiosis, which is a procedure that joins two animals' circulatory systems together, we will need to perform extensive testing. Please be aware of the risks. In your new skin, you will be able to jump and move more swiftly than your average human. You will also be highly sensitive to touch akin to the condition polyneuropathy, but this hyperawareness to touch and your surroundings will subside over time. Please be aware that your new skin may not be advisable for long periods in water and sunlight. Good luck! [[End]]

This message confirms your selection of snake (Serpentes) skin. Please allow 90 days for a complete symbiosis to occur. After this time period, if you would like to proceed beyond phenotype and explore an option into parabiosis, which is a procedure that joins two animals' circulatory systems together, we will need to perform extensive testing. Please be aware of the risks. In your new skin, you will be able to withstand high heat and humidity. Your skin is subject to molting or sloughing, which is a shedding of an outer layer due to regeneration of skin. In addition, your skin has grip and you will have the ability to hold onto surfaces for an extended period of time. Please be aware that your new skin may not be advisable in areas with high concentrations of marigolds and lemongrass and may result in an allergic reaction. Good luck! [[End]]

This message confirms your selection of frog (Anura) skin. Please allow 90 days for a complete symbiosis to occur. After this time period, if you would like to proceed beyond phenotype and explore an option into parabiosis, which is a procedure that joins two animals' circulatory systems together, we will need to perform extensive testing. Please be aware of the risks. In your new skin, you will be able to withstand high heat, humidity, and extended wading periods in shallow waters. You will also be able to control your body temperature through your skin and blend in with your immediate environment. Please be aware that your new skin may not be advisable for flight travel, high altitudes, and extended walks on flat surfaces. Good luck! [[End]]