DataCrime
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 Datacrime, the second of the series being minted as NFT.
The DataCrime virus is (in)famous for causing a spread of panic around Oct. 13th 1989, the date it was timed to sef off.
On the 13th of October the virus would infect programs formatting the first nine tracks of the hard disk and display the message " DATACRIME VIRUS RELEASED: 1 MARCH 1989". The virus was very buggy and even it received a lot of media coverage, especially in Netherlands, no one was certain if anyone really got hit by the virus.
Read more about the virus on The Virus Ecyclopedia http://virus.wikidot.com/datacrime
The work was made using a Processing script for glitch art.
