Is It a Bit?

Submission for “Dialogues on CoreCore & The

Contemporary Online Avant-Garde” produced by 0nty &

OnMyComputer and published by Becoming. Rendition

of the “All Things Are Nothing to Us” Symposium on

CoreCore held at the School of Visual Arts in NYC on

December 2nd, 2023, which preceded the book’s release.

The symposium opened with a screening of contributed

CoreCore works, making up the first half of the

event. Link to the Full Screening.

The second half was a live panel discussion between the

five in-person panelists and the four attending via

Discord. The five panelists depicted left to right are

Persis Bekkering, Coincelpro, Eddie Hewer, John

Michael, and Dylan Smith. The four on the screen from the

top left are Flatline Constructs, Louis Morelle, 0nty, and Kali

Masoch. The collage is made up of the notes I took during

the live discussion. The drawing was made sometime after

the conference and existed in a blank, unfinished state until a

few days before submissions closed. Both the drawing and

notes were scanned and then assembled in Photoshop.

I felt lucky to have been able to attend the symposium,

experiencing the discussion firsthand was very worthwhile and

genuinely fun. I can’t remember specific details since it

happened a few months ago at this point, but I do remember

during the live panel a back-and-forth between one of the live

panelist and one of the Discord panelists, and visually it

was very funny to see the live one turned around arguing

a philosophical difference with what would have been just

a wall had there been no projector, except it was able to talk

back. It was gratifying to see the discussion in real time, the

difference between the selected panelist (“an arts student, a

philosopher, a psychoanalyst, a TikToker, and a meme page

admin”) led to something truly productive; all these different

perspectives being present was necessary to appropriately

engage with the subject matter. Lastly, it was a unique

experience, I don’t know the next time I’ll be able to tell people

I’m going to the “TikTok CoreCore Conference”, but I wish I

could go to happenings like this all the time. I want to thank

0nty, OnMyComputer, and all the other panelists for making

it happen and BecomingPress for publishing the book and for

including my piece.