artist statement

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κατάλογος

(1) ___Eternal White Flag___

The stream is interrupted twice a day: at 8:15 and at 11:02 Tokyo time.

(2) Duck and Cover 25

In 1953, Robert Rauschenberg erased a drawing by Willem de Kooning, turning it into a blank sheet.
In this project, the Cold War–era educational film Duck and Cover (1952) is processed by two neural networks: one recognizes familiar images, the other removes them, replacing them with background. The cycle repeats until the algorithm ceases to find anything recognizable.
Against the backdrop of the renewed threat of nuclear war, the work proposes to regard the human as existing in a state of superposition: it still exists for people, but has already disappeared from the perception of the algorithm — a being capable of surviving a nuclear cataclysm.

(3) h.tp log

Every morning at sunrise, at Toutzis time, during the twelve minutes after the sun has risen, three times, at four-minute intervals, requests are sent to the server of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (object no. 547802, The Temple of Dendur). In the User-Agent header, Spell 330 from the Coffin Texts is transmitted line by line.
The algorithm becomes the priest, the server the temple, and the logs are the seed that carries the spell.

(4) For Eliza

A fragment of the source code of ELIZA (MAD-SLIP, 1966), the first chatbot by Weizenbaum, is voiced by a neural network trained in the Tswana language. The sound is played back from magnetic tape, which becomes a kind of scroll: as it unrolls, it gives voice to the electronic priest chanting incantations.

(5) Lotto 777

Roman Opalka’s project ended at number 5,607,249, though the artist intended to reach 7,777,777. After his death, the count continues: a pyramidal image is created, containing the sequence from 5,607,250 to 7,777,777.
Based on this canvas, a lottery device was built — cyclically drawing 222 random numbers.
The project invites us to imagine a world where immortality becomes a limited resource.