As Above, So Below: Magic in the Digital Age / 天00地00 ：电子魔法人士

Accent Accent is seeking artists for an upcoming exhibition, 天𝟶𝟶地𝟶𝟶：电子魔法人士 or As Ab𝟶ve, So Bel𝟶w: Magic in the Digital Age, running from December 9 to 20 . Alongside the exhibition, the sisterhood will host a series of workshops, book talks, and coven gatherings exploring related themes of occultism, magic, and digital art in early December. Think back to the 'original' understanding of the supernatural we had as children. Magic. From witches, fairies, perhaps even magical ponies on TV, we’ve since graduated to astrology hyperfixations, occult meme cosmology, and internet mythologies. (Or perhaps not all of us have). Whatever the interpretation, magic usurps “the truth”, and it’s a tool we’ve always had. Considering how these truths and inevitabilities are fed to us, ever more relentlessly hidden under the guise of technocracy, can the occult be our tool to dismantle them? To create disbelief? If we combine the understandings of magic as wayward and power-giving, how do we continue the practice of magic in technology, and spread the disenfranchised, situated knowledges hidden within? We are seeking practitioners of digital magic : people who imagine new realities that serve us, in alternative, wayward ways. We invite artworks that enchant or curse our use of technology. Works that take authoritative narratives of truth and behead them with testimony/hearsays/rumours/manifestations/ born of raw humanity. Let us remember that the computer's original inventors were not just magicians; they were heretics against social order. Alan Turing famously wrote that the statistical evidence for telepathy was "overwhelming" in his paper Computing Machinery and Intelligence . Do you have works that come in the form of Digital gnosticism Words-based Art as Incantation 魔法少女 (mahō shōjo, "magical girls") and power-up magic alter egos Digital stories of ghosts and monsters Reinterpretations of occultism, witchcraft, and shamanism (particularly from diasporic traditions) Memes, m