The Master Program of Research CCC of the Department of Visual Arts of the HEAD – Geneva is pleased to invite you to the presentation of the book of The Black Swan Turned Its 9 Faces Towards Me by Jamahiriya Hagbolt, written by CCC students

Within the context of CCC Research Program Master and PhD-Forum.

The Black Swan Turned Its 9 Faces Towards Me by Jamahirya Hagbolt, 2017, is conceived and authored by Aurélien Ballif, Joo Young Hwang, Maïté Chénière, Ghalas Charara, Alice Escorel Boudreau, Yael Wicki, Tina Wetchy, Léa Gallon and Raphaëlle Mueller for the Theory Fiction Seminar 2016/17 directed by Kodwo Eshun at CCC Research Program at HEAD – Genève.

The Black Swan Turned Its 9 Faces Towards Me by Jamahirya Hagbolt is the first issue of the CCC publication series TERM S/ES initiated as an open format for publishing research processes of a particular Seminar of the CCC Research Program around a concept, project or theory. TERM S/ES provides the space for the constitution of new vocabularies by activating ‘terms’ (English) or ‘termes’(French). Its content is edited by the students as part of the Seminar. TERM S/ES is published online and in print-form.

The book will be presented with Thinking Under Turbulence, published by the CCC / HEAD Research Master and Motto Books in 2017.

The Black Swan Turned Its 9 Faces Towards Me
6th May 2010. A spring day in Geneva’s financial district takes an unexpected turn. A chain of unforeseen events sets off a hyperlocal catastrophe in the Helvetic city’s sterile streets. An experimental drug attracts the interest of humans and non-humans, opening a computational portal of algorithmic cunning, complicity, craftiness and corruption. When fungi encounter AIs and the Queen of Quants meets one of the world’s greatest code warriors, then the Icerock data centre, Switzerland’s pride and joy, its safest of havens, will never be the same again...