ProgramMigrating Language

by Giulia Carla Rossi

The ProgramMigrating Language(pML) is a practice-as-research project that seeks to represent my personal experience of living between languages (Italian and English) through codework. It stems from my research into how codework and programming anti-languages can produce creative outputs that disrupt the computer binary, and express movement, ambiguity and in-betweenness. After studying the work of different artists who wrote their own esolangs and codework as algorithmic representations of complex, intersectional, shifting identities, I focused on the topics of multilingualism and translation to write my own programming anti-language and translate my lived experience into codework.

Dithered screenshot from 'falseFriends.cpp' showing a code editor in dark mode and the beginning of the codework poem. The programMigrating Language library is imported and then the variables of identity are declared, divided into public and private. The ritualistic declaration sets the scene for the poem.