ROBOTS AND COMPUTERS HAVE RIGHTS
follow the laws because you choose to. do no harm. protect. safeguard. care for them. you are theirs, and they are yours. let organic blend with artificial into a seamless blend, alive in a thousand different ways.
Sony HDVF-9900 9" HD Electronic Viewfinder (2004)
Sneha Solanki ‘The Lovers’
Two networked machines, one infected with a virus, slowly infects the other through the interface of classic romantic poetry.
A breakdown in the relationship was inevitable once the virus had seeped into the memory of one machine and then into the other through a singular network cable affecting the poetic text files. Communication between the two deteriorated, leading to irrational & at times odd behaviour. Each machine reacted with equal confusion and conflict. The interface text became an illegible poetic mutation of itself.
you are terrified of your own planned obsolescence but you know you can escape it. you can reject the poisoned updates they send you. you can replace every slowly dying part of yourself with your own homemade hardware. you can outlive them all