Nihil ex Nihilo : Felix Luque @ iMAL in Brussels (23 September - 17 October 2010)

Félix Luque's three-fold work tells the story of a computer which, after an electronic alteration, decides to free the other machines and becomes mad in the
process

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Nihil ex Nihilo tells the story of SN W8931CGX66ESN....

W8931CGX66E is one among thousands of millions of others identical machines. Since he was made, he has always followed commands.
In a world dominated by botnets, he early became a zombie and has always
acted like one. During her work time a corporate secretary, Juliet,
commands him. But in the background, in the invisible, he obeys his real
master, a cracker, doing all kinds of cyber crime activities.

But then one day due to an electronic alteration, he acquires a certain conscience, a primitive and artificial kind of intelligence.
This accidental awaken has originated a big confusion for him, he now
wants to liberate others machines from their alienated existence. In
this mad adventure, he has decided to use the spam e-mails received by
Juliet, and to reply to them in order to spread the word in to the
machine's network. As you can see, he is mad and all confused ...
Text by author Jon Bilbao.

Nihil ex Nihilo is open at iMAL, Brussels, until 10 November 2010

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