the
interREPUBLIC OF HYBRIDIA and the DISTRICT OF LEISTAVIA at ISEA 2004
These
are the heritage origin pages, the current file is found
here.
The
interRepublic of Hybridia is a nonlinear, non-geographical entity mediated by
digital files: it's cultural boundary is ultimately flexible. The District of
Leistavia falls within the interRepublic of Hybridia, and is a hybrid cultural
space influenced by cultures worldwide. The creation of the District of Leistavia
was a selected project for ISEA
2004, which takes place in Helsinki and Tallinn and on the ferry in
between, in August 2004.
The
boundaries between cultures are usually distinct, and are often fixed by geography.
The internet is fundamentally a non-geographic entity, and given digital media
are nonlinear, the boundaries between cultures can be freely breached in this
project.
While
people of all cultures were invited to take part in this project, a special request
was made to people of the cultures of Estonia, Pitcairn Island and Norfolk Island
cultures. The project has been a collaboration involving many people (in particular
Kylli Mariste of Estonia and Joe Flynn of Norfolk Island), and is strongly influenced
by Norfolk Island, Pitcairn Island and Estonian cultures.
The
constitution voting form reflects the particular
interests of people of these cultures. Following a world wide interaction, important
issues of governance arose - who controls/governs the people? Should indigenous
cultures have special rights? Should everyone be equal in the law? Resource use
was another consideration of importance to the three founding cultures. Voting
on the constitution is taking place now.
If
a country was started from law making up, what kind of territory would be created,
in 2004? That is one question this project sets out to answer. If you have any
queries about the project, email hybridia1@yahoo.com.
the
DISTRICT OF LEISTAVIA welcomes you
A large part of this project has taken place via email, with contributors around
the earth taking part. At the same time, images have been contributed. The image
collection consists of combined and manipulated images - adjustments suitable
to the aims of the project.
Discussion
around the creation of Leistavia is documented on these
web pages. The image collection will be projected in an exhibition area in the
Centre for Contemporary Arts in Tallinn, part of an installation installed just
prior to the conference. During the ferry trip, final constitution voting papers
and files will be collected, with the results announced in Tallinn.
Overall,
the project aims to locate a hybrid cultural space with diverse roots, though
specifically influenced by the cultures of Estonia, Pitcairn Island and Norfolk
Island. The capacity of the technology and the internet to mediate a hybrid cultural
space is one of the central themes of the project.
1. Native trees
of Hybridia - Perpetual blossom
THE
NATIVE LANGUAGE OF HYBRIDIA IS KEYBOARD
The
native language of Hybridia is Keyboard. Keyboard has many dialects, but emotional
degrees are nearly universal. Keyboard is read rather than spoken, and it is the
visual appearance as well as exact definition that work together to create meaning.
For
example, {+GIVE%=%YOU/ME} means: how much the project reflects you or me,
depends on how much you give. Notice that the Keyboard expression is much shorter
- brevity is admired by Hybridians. The inclusion of the + sign indicates the
general tone is positive. {+weather} is a fine and sunny day, whereas {-weather}
is a grey rainy day.
Here
are some strings that the reader can translate.
{?inside/outside=%eye.place}
{owl.howl}
{openborder.line/barrier.down:hybridia}
Following
are some additional terms and phrases of Keyboard:
Eye*-9.9
= looks really bad Eye*+/-0.3
= looks so-so. Eye*+5.4 = looks OK Eye*+9.9 = looks really
great
Similar
statements are used for emotion and thoughts.
Heart*-9.9
= feels really bad Heart*+9.9 = feels really good
Head*-9.9
= really bad idea Head*+9.9 = excellent idea
[i]
= I feel trapped, constrained; also, I am inside.
~i~
= I feel free
These
can be combined:
[i]heart*-3.5
= I feel trapped emotionally.
[~i~]heart*+6.5
= I feel emotionally uplifted.
Other
singular terms:
[o]
= I will trap an other (person, animal)
~o~
= I will free an other (person, animal)
[iu]
= you and I are in this together; also a couple, or pair.
[ixu]
= a bond between two people.
[iui]
= threesome; also any group of three.
[us]
= we are all in this together.
~~~
= flock of birds, line of flight.
^^~
= cat.
Any word
is negated by .non
Art
= is an art work. Art.non = is not an art work.
.web
= a complexity.
undo.web
= to collapse a complexity.
undo.web9:1
= to collapse a large complexity into a singularity. undo.web5:1 = to
collapse a medium size complexity into a singularity. undo.web5:2 =
to collapse a medium size complexity into a duality. undo.web5:3 = to
collapse a medium complexity into a refined complexity.
-||-
= the same no matter which way you look at it. Similar to the English phrase 'six
of one and a half dozen of the other.'
>>>>
= a journey.
>>>>>>>>
= a long journey.
<--->
= backwards and forwards all day; a phrase used for 'getting nowhere;' also there
and back.
Degrees
of subtlety can be indicated by the amount of numbers to the right of the decimal
point. A back handed compliment for example, would be to say Art*8.1.
This would be to say the art work is of good quality, but lacks subtlety. Although
the following examples use long expressions, as a matter of fact Hybridians revere
brevity in expression. Although numbers are frequently used, it is the beauty
of the numbers, not their value that is truly most significant. In Keyboard, it
is the visual expressivity that is important, above all else.
Art*+7.5749675348976
= Is a work of art that is quite good but not excellent however has a good degree
of subtlety.
Art*+7.5749675348976~~~
= Is a work of art that is quite good but not excellent however has a good degree
of subtlety and attains moments of flight.
It
is usual for strings of discreet phrases to be located in braces. The correct
form of the above Keyboard sentence is:
{Art*+7.5749675348976~~~}
Strings
of phrases within sentences are separated by using brackets [ ]:
{[i]Art*+7.5749675348976~~~[~i~]}
= I got inside this art work, which was quite good but not excellent, however
it did attain moments of flight, that set me free.
Emphasis
can be indicated by using a multiplier:
{[i]X2Art*+9.874001378962467831056~~~[undo.web9:1]~i~}
= I really got inside this art work, which was both excellent and subtle, and
attained a moment of flight because it collapsed the complexity of the content
into a simplicity, and when I realised this, I was set free.