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64 Bits & Malachite

by Baloji

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F.I.N.I. 03:46
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64 Bits 03:19
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Capture 03:49

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64 bits is the current reference for processors. It evokes the idea of built-in obsolescence; how previous versions, even if they still function, are designed to become useless. Malachite is a green-layered stone found in Katanga (DRC Congo). 64 Bits & Malachite mines our operating systems: it is a metaphor of our era, a melody of diaspora; a nomadic music between encounters and collisions.

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released November 4, 2016

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Baloji Belgium

Baloji is an artist in motion, a musician, poet, film director, a man of images and ideas.

Baloji means “man of science” in Swahili, but during the colonial period, that meaning shifted as a result of Christian evangelisation, to signify “man of the occult sciences” and then “sorcerer”.

Baloji was born in Lubumbashi (DRC Congo) and grew up in Belgium.
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