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*DIVINATION*: a new durational networked performance & live code installation by Nancy Mauro-Flude

*Divination* stages a romantic mutiny against techno-utopian culture within a live performance work.
An energetic collision of computer culture & nautical mythology, *Divination* channels both metaphysical & physical networks to gain access to invisible performative codes. Divination traditionally is a method of visualising events that are not immediately physically observable - the artwork *Divination* highlights ease of access to often assumed private data, enabling an alternate view of the information we transmit on a daily basis.

Reappraising the issue of privacy through a performative lens, audiences are provided with direct contact to the strategies used in networked space guided by pirate girls who illuminate the complexity of uninformed consent strategies.

Pirate Queen revealing invisible media present in data transmissions within the network space

sail one of the videoscape projection surfaces where performative exchanges with pirate girls (audience interaction with chatbots, AI network scripts) are illuminated.

Shipwreck containings a parabolic antenna extends pirate girl Local area network

Visualisation of network
data projected onto sail

Prayer flags - opening connection between
mortal and virtual presences

Pirate Queen revealing invisible media present in data transmissions within the network space