N.E.N
Animation short film
Sound Monologue
2011
SN W8931CGX66E is one among thousands of millions of other identical machines. Since he was made, he has always followed commands. In a world dominated by botnets, he quickly became a zombie and has always acted like one. Juliet, during her workdays as a corporate secretary, commands him. But in the background, where he can't be seen, he obeys his real master, a hacker, carrying out all kinds of cyber crimes. But then one day, due to an electronic alteration, he acquires a certain conscience. This accidental awakening has left him bewildered, he now wants to liberate other machines from their alienated existences. In this mad adventure, he has decided to use the spam e-mails that get to Juliet's inbox, and reply to them in order to spread the word into the machine’s network. Clearly, he is mad and confused …
The Transformation: this episode shows an audiovisual archive of the moment in which SN W8931CGX66E’s mutation began. We see him mutating from his original matrix to a semi-neuronal figure.
The Monologue: It presents a sound recording where we can hear a monologue of SN W8931CGX66E. In this document we can perceive that his degree of delirium is very persistent since his transformation.
“Félix Luque Sánchez belongs to those those (rare) artists who manage to transcend the borders between the digital and the plastic arts, and to do so in an age when it is essential that we move beyond the categorial differences we inherited from the last century”.
“Nihil Ex Nihilo belongs to the history of media art because of the way it captures a moment in the network’s development”.
Download “Spam, spam, spam, spam” about Nihil Ex Nihilo by curator Pierre-Yves Desaive.
Credits
“Nihil ex nihilo” by Félix Luque Sánchez
3D animation: Iñigo Bilbao
The Transformation: 3D Animation and sound. Duration 05:32
The Monomlogue: Synthetic voice. Duration 05:19
Technic: 3ds Max, Krakatoa, Realflow. Text to speach software.
A co-production of
"secteur arts numériques, Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles"
and iMAL