Connection Machine: Square Body Square Eyes Square Dance

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Connection Machine: Square Body Square Eyes Square Dance

Performing Bodies

 

A body clinging to a hand-made glass slab  of 70 square centimetres, (CM-2 AKA Connection Machine)

Square Body

Square Eyes

Square Dance

Connecting Machine (CM) is a member of a body of parallel supercomputers

Intended originally for applications in AI

Mothers warn their kids not to get square eyes

Intended originally to look around

Hand moving

Slap

Swipe

Swap

 

Sloppy

Glassy

Tasty

 

Connecting bodies 

Online

Offline 

Eyes move forward into the depth of the screen

Eyes holding their gaze

Hands holding screens that hold gazes

Tenacious hands

Glancing hands

A body that steps blindly through the looking glass like a contemporary Alice in Wonderland

Where are we now...