Series of printed NFO files from the internet dirty outskirts or perhaps the heart of the net itself. Historical, archaeological and daily use data about you and me, the corporate ghost, the crews and the gangs in the confusion of a time where the permanent update becomes a sharp boomerang. The Download Machine series presents over large printed files a synthesis of the new world disorder through the testimony of mixed classic historical and absurd monumental NFO files. Content through the series is related in some cases to the original without modification as found in the downloaded crack or keygen files, others show listings of private, public and border line or forbidden data using the protocol and forms of the pirate scene. Each print will be numbered with a valid activation code or serial number to unlock a given software application.
153.7 × 114 × 5 cm
c-print on 5 cm plexiglas board
Exhibited in At My Limit : In the Name of Kernel!
Related press: A Map to Reach the Impossible: on rhizome.org
In the Name of Kernel! : 7 Columns Mega NFO File (The Download Machine Series) (2008)
Joan Leandre
