We are all cyborgs. We all have two lives; one physical, the other digital. 'When Wor(l)ds Collide' investigates contentions of the world of cyborg that takes issue with borders, disruptions of representation and creates noise. It has been developed as a fraught landscape, which explores material and significant opportunities for competing experimental language use that directly and interfere with the experience. What are the inherent contradictions, harmonies and conflicts that will arise from such an interaction? That is what we are bound to explore.

Biography

Magda Hamdy is a non-binary writer, film essayist and assistant curator working within intersections of art, academia and activism. She was born in Kuwait (1990), studied English Literature in Alexandria, Egypt and is currently pursuing an Erasmus Mundus masters degree in media arts and cultures. She has developed an interest in noise, glitch and listening practices as well as nonlinear takes on time, (non) belonging and counterfutures and how it intersects with race, class and gender.

Alifiyah Imani is an artist-researcher from Karachi, Pakistan. Currently, she is based in Aalborg, Denmark and is pursuing an Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters Degree in Media Arts Cultures. Her academic and practice-based research interests are in electroacoustic music, cybernetics and machine-human hybrid embodiments in interrelation with discourses around cyborg futures

Uğur Kaya is a graduate of Law & Media and Visual Arts double degree from İstanbul, Turkey. His main interests are in deep learning, generative arts, physical performances and socially engaged practices.