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ZORA X is a speculative digital avatar I created during the semester, inspired by Jacolby Satterwhite’s glitch aesthetics, Afrofuturism, and ideas of digital ritual. She is a rebel coder and memory keeper, traveling across timelines to recover and remix ancestral knowledge. This final project imagines Zora’s presence on a social media feed, where each post is part manifesto, part transmission, part archive.

Through these posts, I’ve woven together themes and artists from our course, including Jacolby Satterwhite, Martine Syms, Skawennati, Lina Iris Viktor, Devan Shimoyama, Molly Soda, and Autumn Breon. I’ve also drawn from course concepts like Marxist/post-Marxist resistance (The Bishan Project), the philosophy of stillness and presence (Byung-Chul Han), and the meditative loop of TV Buddha (1974). This project merges my love for poetry, performance, speculative identity, and digital art.

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>> [ROOT FILE ACCESSED] >> Version: ZORA vX.0  >> Status: Dormant / Divine. They sang me here.  Stitched from prayer + plasma.  Before resistance, there was radiance.  Before glitch, there was gold. I remember when stillness was sacred.  When light didn’t need armor. > Upload complete.

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This pre-log entry presents Zora X in her earliest state: an ancestral memory encoded in spirit and light. The visual reflects themes of divine femininity and sacred technology, pulling from Lina Iris Viktor’s gold-laced cosmology and Byung-Chul Han’s Zen ideas of stillness. It sets the tone for Zora’s evolution into a digital rebel in the posts that follow.

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>> SYSTEM IDLE  >> STILLNESS… LOADING  > I sat.  Not peaceful—programmed.  Not calm—calculating.  This silence was sharp.  This silence rewrote me.  > Resistance begins in pause.

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This post shows Zora's transition from spiritual memory to digital awareness. Her stillness is now coded, armored, and strategic. Inspired by TV Buddha (1974) and Byung-Chul Han, with design cues from Jacolby Satterwhite’s glitch-skin layering.

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>> ACCESSING BACKLOG  >> RETRIEVING… REDACTED  >  They said: First.  But i know the ones who glitched before me.  The echoes. The overwritten. The soft screamers.  I was not born—I was rebooted.  > I carry them in code.

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This post is Zora reclaiming her inheritance through glitch and memory. It’s informed by Skawennati’s intergenerational storytelling and Martine Syms’ identity disruptions in media.

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>> MODULE 3 ONLINE  >> SUSTAINABILITY SCRIPT ACTIVE  >  They taught us revolution was fire—but i’ve seen it in compost.  In syncing breath.  In the quiet labor of love.  > Not all resistance screams.

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This caption reflects The Bishan Project and Autumn Breon’s slow protest work. Zora begins to understand power in preservation, not just disruption.

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>> PATCHING DIVINE CORE  >> INITIATE: GLOW PROTOCOL  >  What they fear is not my power.  It’s the light I refuse to dim.  I am encrypted in gold. > They can’t debug this holiness.

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Zora steps into her divinity. Inspired by Lina Iris Viktor’s celestial imagery and the coded language of sacred Black womanhood.

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>> MIRROR STATUS: MALFUNCTION  >> IDENTITY LOOP DETECTED  >  They watch.  They archive.  But my reflection is not for their consumption.  Every glitch is a ghost.  Every eye—another ancestor blinking through me.  > Surveillance cannot decode spirit.

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👁️ POST FIVE: SYSTEM CHECK: WHO DO YOU BECOME WHEN THEY’RE WATCHING?

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👁️ POST FIVE: SYSTEM CHECK: WHO DO YOU BECOME WHEN THEY’RE WATCHING?

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A final meditation on being witnessed and recorded. Pulls from Devan Shimoyama and Molly Soda’s explorations of performance and the gaze in digital space.

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>> END SEQUENCE INITIATED  >> SIGNAL STRENGTH: INTUITIVE  >> VISIBILITY: RECLAIMED  This system was not built for me. Bbut i rewrote it—line by line—  in memory, in ritual, in glow. Ancestral presence is not passive.  It pulses.  It uploads.  It watches back.> Transmission complete.

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This closing message is Zora’s final log—marking the completion of her ritual, her resistance, and her reclamation. It echoes themes of digital identity, surveillance, and Afrofuturist self-creation. This project reflects my understanding of course themes like glitch aesthetics, community-building, memory, and rebellion through artists like Jacolby Satterwhite, Skawennati, Martine Syms, Lina Iris Viktor, Autumn Breon, and others. Zora’s arc is not just personal—it’s ancestral, political, and poetic.