I love you [rev.eng] Exhibition

kuda.org

21 June 2006

The I love you [rev.eng = reverse engineering] exhibition will open officially on June 22, at the Novi Sad Museum of Contemporary Arts, at 20:00 hours.
This is the first exhibition dedicated to the phenomena of computer viruses on global level. In a networked society, dealing with computer viruses has become a part of everyday life. The I love you [rev.eng] is an experiment that challenges the contemporary culture and goes well beyond the current debates on hacking. The unique feature of the exhibition is the idea of a wide spectrum of meanings computer viruses carry - from purely computer entities to inspiration and tool of artistic creation.

The background research for the exhibition included historical, political, cultural and technical fields. The topical orientation of the exhibition includes the contradictory relationship between security experts and hackers, net artists and programmers, literary experts and code poets.

The visitors of the exhibition will have free access to computer terminals and will have an opportunity to try working with viruses; an animation with chronology of development and consequences of the destructive power of viruses will be shown; inside a specially created interactive environment, the visitors will be able to use a joystick and see the otherwise invisible processes of global consequences of viral infections; one terminal will present about 40 interviews with virus creators.

The exhibition was prepared by digitalcraft.org from Frankfurt, Germany. digitalcraft.org was established in 2003, as a digital department of the Frankfurt-am-Mein Museum of Applied Arts. Its mission includes research and documentation of digital culture trends, for future presentation to academic and general public.

The kuda.org Centre for New Media produces the exhibition for Serbia. The exhibition was prepared under the patronage of Provincial Executive Council of Vojvodina.