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 Dialogue: A digital display (8 large size alphanumeric displays) shows the data flow between the entity and the other computers in the network. In this space, we can see and hear in real time the exchange of messages between them. At each spam message received and read, SN W8931CGX66E reacts by generating a reply. His e-mail algorithmic generator creates these messages.



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.

Download “Spam, spam, spam, spam” about Nihil Ex Nihilo by curator Pierre-Yves Desaive.

Credits:

Nihil Ex Nihilo by Félix Luque Sánchez in collaboration with Iñigo Bilbao, Damien Gernay and Vincent Evrard

A co-production of "secteur arts numériques, Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles" and iMAL