Building upon previous artworks around censorship, hiding, and erasure, this lecture performance extends these concerns into techniques for making materials difficult—or impossible—to read. It foregrounds unreadability as an active form of resistance that generates new, fluid forms of reading. Data inhabits our screens and minds, habituating us to censoring algorithms that curate perception through human and machine filters. We hide, rewrite, and encode materials for play, beauty, fear, protection—and many other reasons. Yet behind the act of making things difficult to read lie deeper questions: Who holds the power to force unreadability? Whose voices are erased or silenced? And how might code's unreadability become a site of opacity, ambiguity, and care? The lecture performance probes themes of forgetting, remembering, voicing, and generating the unreadable, asking how tactics of silencing and obfuscation—reclaimed as resistance—might rupture the seams of control.
