ProgramMigrating Language (pML)
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.
falseFriends.cpp is an interactive codework poem written using the ProgramMigrating Language, which seeks to represent my personal experience of living between languages (Italian and English) through code poetry. Based on the structure of C++, the poem forefronts my experience, while offering multiple routes through the text depending on the reader’s interpretation of English/Italian false friends (words that sound similar across languages but have different meanings).
An interactive essay including the falseFriends.cpp interactive poem, as well as more of the research and thinking behind the writing, was published as part of the HTML review Issue 03 and is available here.
I have created a separate website dedicated to the ProgramMigrating Language project and its dedicated code library.