Chapter
Two




< Reimagining Classic Narratives Through a Feminist Lens>










Building upon my previous work, which involved reinterpreting literary narratives from a feminist perspective using sound, I sought to adapt the familiar tale of Alice in Wonderland to a modern context. 

This adaptation, titled Alice in Interland, explores speculative scenarios of human-technology integration. The central question guiding this narrative was:

What if Alice—symbolizing any of us—were to fall into her smartphone and navigate the vast realms of the internet?










Based on the short story 'I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream' by Harlan Ellison - a study in rewriting a scifi story from a woman’s perspective (within this a marginalised point of view), 'The Story of Tina', follows Tina as she is enslaved by the snetient AI system called EMOX. 


Our world systems are based on hegemonic patriarchal, capitalistic structures. These structures are so deeply entrenched in the society that they are woven into the very fabric of our existence in status quo. Our family life, sense of self, learnings, politics, culture, ecology, working life, everything is imbibed with these oppressive and biased systems. 

As these same systems are the founding fathers of new technological systems and structures of AI, I wanted to speculate Ellison's narrative in a perspective that opens up room for discussing who or what systems are responsible for the biased foundations of AI, and what kind of repercussions are we bound to experience of the same, if we do not act now and make them informed of diverse, differentiating, and differently situated communities, their lives, and their viewpoints.

The oppression continues but adapts into a new langauge in the world of EMOX.

I also wanted to specifically use a sound based narrative, where I produced most of the spoken noises in the background, and the poetic narrative to explore the tension between silencing of the marginalised and allowing the space for diverse voices to be heard.

For Tina, she can only speak at night, and she will never know that we had the chance to hear her voice. But the transported artefact, which stores the memory of her life and voice, exposes the audience to Tina's narrative, suggesting the impending doom, a lesson, a warning to question the things around us, and question who builds it, why we build it, and how we build it.
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