a percentage remedies a code underneath the harmful device, 2010 – 2012

The installation consists of a number of large wall sized works where the artist wrote out by hand portions of the hypertext code that construct all the web sites he had visited on one particular day, creating a spatial iteration of web-browsing. Taking from Lacan, the work frames browsing the Internet as subjugation of the user through the digital language of code, subsumed by products of immaterial labour. The work becomes a materialization of the immaterial, an exaggerated and absurd display of a disciplinary and rote act of acquiring, consuming, and producing code. The human functions as machine making data for other machines, producing for their consumption while consuming the data itself. However, the act is time-consuming and laborious, and the body reacts. Unlike the machine, the flesh exhausts itself; the body tires and becomes less vigilant as the fidelity of the code wanes, presenting itself as sloppy production/writing, negligent mistakes, and impulsive modifications, refusing intelligibility and re-functionality. Code that does not work, that does not produce, that withhold all instant gratification typified by web browsing.

- Kevin Tsuan-Hsiang Day -
- Kevin Tsuan-Hsiang Day -
- Kevin Tsuan-Hsiang Day -
- Kevin Tsuan-Hsiang Day -
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