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Zaiba Jabbar in the V&A East Storehouse. Photo credit: Ben Selig<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Technophone (W.19-2003) \u00a9 Victoria and Albert Museum, London<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Curator, researcher and director of HERVISIONS<\/a>, Zaiba Jabbar, has been searching through the collections at V&A East Storehouse as part of her 5-day Look What I Found residency. Zaiba used the Look What I Found residency to continue her research into \u201crewilding communications\u201d. In a culture concerned with the faithful reproduction of signals, the care of listening reminds us that communication is not only technical but also ethical\u2014a practice of attention, patience, and relation. Every system regulates itself through feedback. The body does this. Ecosystems do this. Technological systems do this too\u2014though often in ways that serve the system rather than the person within it. Zaiba uses the term \u201crewilding communications\u201d to address this gap and consider an approach to designing new technologies that centres systems of care that reflect our own internal regulation.<\/p>\n

Before arriving on the Look What I Found micro-residency, Zaiba had been scouring the online collections<\/a> at V&A East Storehouse and found the Technophone<\/a>, a popular mobile phone designed by Seymour Powell in 1986. Her research began here, exploring the relationship between the Technophone and the Technophobe, a term used to describe someone who fears or resists new technology, which \u201clike parasitic and symbiotic organisms these technologies connect and distance us simultaneously, prompting questions about who gets to participate in digital futures.<\/p>\n

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Georgia Haseldine, Senior Curator at V&A East, holding the Technophone during Zaiba\u2019s presentation during Zaiba’s Look What I Found event. Photo credit Alexis Lawless \u00a9 Victoria and Albert Museum, London<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Whilst we wandered the collections hall at V&A East Storehouse on the first day of her micro-residency, Zaiba was struck by the juxtapositions of objects created a feeling of collapsing time.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/em>One of the first things that struck me when I came into the Storehouse was how the collection \u2013 and the way it is presented \u2013 collapses time. <\/em>Objects <\/em>from radically different moments sit in proximity to each other, not organised by era or category, but held together in a kind of suspended simultaneity<\/em>.<\/em> You move through centuries in a few steps. You encounter things you recognise and things that have no immediate context for you, and somehow they are in conversation.<\/em>
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<\/em>That experience of collapsing time felt immediately connected to what I think about when I think about rewilding<\/em> communications.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Zaiba looking at the BT Bronze Cellular Phone (W.18:1-2003) and Charging Unit (W.18:2-2003)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Call and Response<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cLong before the digital age, long before the information age, communities were encoding and transmitting language.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Zaiba\u2019s research led her beyond the digital and towards analoguecommunication technologies like the West African Talking Drum, a drum that mimics the intonation of human voice to transmit language. Zaiba likens the Talking Drum to the WhatsApp of the past, describing both systems as \u201cconveying complex, real-time and long-distance information within communities, blending spoken language with instant, widespread communication.\u201dDuring the Transatlantic Slave Trade, the Talking Drum was banned.Raising questions about a history of communication methods that have been obscured and erased, Zaiba asks<\/p>\n

\u201cWho gets to encode? Who gets to decode? Whose signals are received and whose are lost… the systems we call technological are never neutral, carrying within them the assumptions, exclusions, and hierarchies of the people who built them.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

One of the many communication objects Zaiba encountered during the residency was this Girl Guides Test Card<\/a> from 1931.<\/p>\n

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Girls Guide Test Card (B.37-1993) from around 1931 <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThe Girl Guides test card is a female-coded system of survival knowledge passed quietly between generations. Passed through handbooks, local troops, and proficiency badges, these curricula provided girls with autonomous operational knowledge outside formal institutional schooling.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Nature-encoded design<\/strong><\/p>\n

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FADA Model 115 Radio (W.26:1,2-1992)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Capriani Cocktail Cabinet (W.2-2010) \u00a9 Victoria and Albert Museum, London<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Spotting the bug-like shape of the FADA Model 115 Radio<\/a>, or the antennas on the 1981 Capriani cocktail cabinet<\/a> designed by Alessandro Mendini, the 1986 BT Bronze cellular phone and charging unit<\/a> and the Technophone, we began speaking about how nature informs design and engineering \u2013 a process known as \u201cbiomimicry\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/em>When we talk about <\/em>the <\/em>antenna as anthropomorphism, we are acknowledging something that designers have always known: that the most sophisticated communication technologies are the ones that look to nature first.<\/em><\/p>\n

The antenna is a figure I keep returning to when thinking about rewilding communications. It sits at the intersection of the technological and the biological \u2014 the device and the creature. They are the same solution, arrived at twice. One by evolution, one by design.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Zaiba\u2019s presentation incorporating images of the Moth Light, a speculative prototype object designed to gently brush moths away using motorised soft blades. The Moth Light, designed by Fiona Raby, Anthony Dunne, Michael Anastassiades and made by Ben Legg, is part of a larger collection called \u2018Weeds, Aliens and Other Stories\u2019, commissioned by Andr\u00e9e Cooke on behalf of the British Council Window Gallery in Prague, 1998. Photo credit Alexis Lawless \u00a9 Victoria and Albert Museum, London<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Observing <\/strong>presence<\/strong><\/p>\n

During her residency, Zaiba engaged with colleagues across the V&A\u2019s Design and Digital collection to understand more about digital preservation. As part of this, she met with curators, researchers and conservators involved in the V&A\u2019s recent acquisition<\/a> of an early watch page of the video sharing platform\u00a0YouTube<\/a>\u00a0and its first-ever video, ‘Me at the zoo’, uploaded on 23 April 2005.<\/p>\n

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YouTube watch page, 8 December 2006 (reconstructed 2026). Museum nos. CD.13:2-2026, CD.14-2026, CD.15:2, 4, 5 and 9-2026. \u00a9 Victoria and Albert Museum, London<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Personally, it was fascinating to be part of these conversations with questions around digital conservation and reconstructing digital artefacts aligning with my wider research of sonic technologiesin the V&A\u2019s collection, particularly in the context of non-invasive collecting, and what it means to collect or recordwithout changing the material form or context of an artefact.<\/p>\n

Continuing along these lines, \u00a0Zaiba found the , an audio recording device from 1901 that records sound vibrations as tiny grooves into a wax-coated cylindrical mould that can later be traced by a needle for playback. Transforming seemingly immeasurable forces into technologies that capture presence, for the first time, Zaiba observed the hidden codes imprinted throughout the collection.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/em>Pressed into wax, made reproducible, made into a commodity… <\/em>The wax cylinder is the moment nature gets encoded. It is where the extractive logic of the information age quietly begins.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Edison Gold Wax Cylinder (W.50-1980) \u00a9 Victoria and Albert Museum, London<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Looking at the detail of the grooves on the Edison Gold Wax Cylinder (W.50-1980) during Zaiba’s Look What I Found event. Photo credit Alexis Lawless <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As part of Zaiba\u2019s event at the end of her residency, she collaborated with holistic voice practitioner, Manuela Barczewski, developing two participatory vocal healing and sound bath workshops centred around resonance and sound therapy. The method combines vowel sounds, overtone singing, and percussion to encourage deep relaxation and meditative states, inviting participants into an altered state of consciousness. Through resonance and embodied listening, the workshops explored non-technological ways of shifting perception, communication, and connection, echoing Zaiba\u2019s research into alternative forms of communication beyond dominant technological systems.<\/p>\n

In the 2022 exhibition catalogue Drum Listens to Heart, Anthony Huberman suggests that music \u201cbegan with early humans mimicking and externalising their own heartbeat, tapping it out with their hands or feet\u201d.\u00a0Immersed by objects and their resonance, Zaiba extends this, offering a reading of rewilding technologies formed around systems of care and reciprocity.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom African talking drums to <\/em>morse code<\/em><\/a>. From the wax cylinder to the worldwide web. From the first mobile phone to the device in your pocket right now… A genealogy that begins much earlier than the Information Age and begins elsewhere. It begins with every community that encoded knowledge into signal, into rhythm, into gesture, into pattern.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cRewilding is not a rejection of technology. It is not nostalgia. It is not a return to an imagined past, but the imagination of what relationships with technology could be \u2013 symbiotic, reciprocal and attuned\u201d. <\/em><\/p>\n

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Special thanks to Nathalie Kane, Carmem Saito, Anna Mladentseva, Patrica Flacao, and Glenn Cumiskey for their insights into digital collections and conservation at V&A and credits to Sally Barton and Derya Adiyaman for producing Morses Code workshops in the Foyle Learning Centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Curator, researcher and director of HERVISIONS, Zaiba Jabbar, has been searching through the collections at V&A East Storehouse as part of her 5-day Look What I Found residency. 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