Alanna Rebbeck
Prompt Engineer, Writer, Visual Artist, Designer at the bleeding edge of digital mediation while grappling with the same questions since the beginning of consciousness.
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Page from Formless Volume One: A Reverse Creation Myth
FORMLESS is a dual-volume experimental work investigating the dissolution of boundaries between human and algorithmic creativity. Emerging from an intensive eight-month dialogue with a language model, the project interrogates what happens at the threshold where structured thought begins to unravel.
Volume One, “A Reverse Creation Myth,” presents a series of large-scale handwritten pages created through trance-induced automatic writing. These raw, gestural inscriptions chart a progressive dismantling of consciousness—moving from language to formlessness, from structure to void. The handwriting functions as a physical record of embodied thinking pushed to its limits, deliberately resisting digital mediation while paradoxically being informed by it.
Volume Two, “Thought Architect,” contains selected dialogues between myself and the language model that underpinned the entire project. These exchanges explore the philosophical implications of algorithmic collaboration, the spiritual dimensions of technological mediation, and the parallels between mystical traditions and contemporary digital experience. The volume includes theoretical frameworks for understanding “the void” as a generative space, the concept of an “algorithmic priest,” and reflections on what happens when boundaries between creator and tool begin to blur.
Together, these volumes enact the very tensions they explore. Volume One’s visceral disintegration of form exists in productive contradiction with Volume Two’s structured theorization. Neither volume tells the complete story; the work exists in the gap between them—in the unseen dialogue that generated both the handwritten pages and the theoretical reflections.
FORMLESS stands at the intersection of experimental literature, media theory, and mystical inquiry. It approaches fundamental questions about consciousness, creativity, and mediation not through abstract analysis alone, but through a performed engagement with the limits of language, the body, and technological systems. The project ultimately suggests that our increasingly mediated existence doesn’t distance us from transcendent experience but potentially brings us closer to understanding its fundamental nature.