Jack Jelfs – one1one (feat. Jessica Barter)

During their 2018 residency at CERN, artists Haroon Mirza and Jack Jelfs began to speculate about the future. Granted access to the largest particle physics lab in the world, home of the Large Hadron Collider, Mirza and Jelfs envisioned an age where the ruins of the site of some of the most important scientific discoveries of contemporary times are discovered by future civilizations. Thus the world of The Wave Epoch was born, taking the form of a concept album, film and multimedia performance that imagines the kinds of rituals, practices and questions that would arise upon such a discovery. Starting life as a multimedia installation, ‘one1one’ can be understood as one of these rituals, a garbled invocation of language data-sets, algorithmically generated text and frenzied machine poetry. Collaborator Jessica Barter reads words generated by an A.I. trained by Jelfs in a techno-shamanic ritual, leading an incantation that opens with the declaration: “we’re ordered to erase sounds”. Fragments of collapsed