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December 2005
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Sexual blood
 
 

Technological determinism will cause you great pain. Continue?

OK

Your health will one day disappear and you will die without meaning. End session?

OK

There are many men and women who dream of making love to you but you will never get to know them. Auto-destruct?

OK

Oblivion is the only cure for agony. Repeat escape function?

OK

Multi-national corporations create user-friendly software so that you will always depend on their lens to the world. More co-dependency?

OK

We cannot process your information. Your information is corrupt and needs cleansing. Erase brain?

OK

The machine has lost your identity. You have become inessential. Create alias?

OK

The machine cannot find your memory. Imagination cache has been obliterated. Restore default dreams?

OK

An error has been detected in your consciousness. All source-code is corrupt. Continue?

OK

The mechano-erotic configuration has been deleted. A false pretense for existence will follow. Save now?

OK

Revolutionary double-speak has engendered a new information war. The system is about to crash. Download drugs now?

OK

A nuclear holocaust is imminent/eminent. Erase memory?

OK

Assembly-line goddess is reproducing orgasm function without you. Maintain irrelevance?

OK

The application could not be opened because your genetic code is dysfunctional. Abort?

OK

A cyborg orgy is not valid. Only digicash transactions are available at this time. Would you like to pay for the privilege?

OK

The network is monitoring your Digital Being. Create alias?

OK

This document wants to blow you. Go to finder?

OK

A transfer of $247,789.40 is about to download. Are you sure you want to disconnect?

OK

Credits

  • First published in ALTX
  • Mark Amerika, has been named a “Time Magazine 100 Innovator” as part of their continuing series of features on the most influential artists, scientists, entertainers and philosophers into the 21st century and, to date, has had four retrospectives of his digital art work.

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