Coffeeshop

In the world of computer & Internet we all have, at least once, come across a glitch and a computer virus. I am fascinated by both. I study glitches and I use them to make my art. Malwarez are, like it or not, part of computer history. Their evolution has been wild and huge. From simple programs to challange other programmers and prank early computer network users, they eventually became powerful weapons to cause damages, ransoms, wars. Considered a primitive generation of smart softwarez, before they became dangerous and silent, they were manifesting their presence through edgy graphic art works. Part of my series V1R0L0GY, this work is a celebration of computer failures, computer culture, internet history and the poetic of chaos.

This is Coffeeshop, the fourth of the series being minted as NFT.

Coffeeshop-1568 is a virus detection that infects other files in order to spread. It spread in 1992 and it was a Pro-Cannabis campaign to promote the legalization of Cannabis. It is one of the first (hack)tivist malware recorded in the history of the computer virus.