Biennale.py is a computer virus we created – with hackers group Epidemic – for the 49th Venice Biennale. Released on the night of the opening, it quickly spread around the world.
Immaterial and self-replicating, when the virus enters a computer it stays there, hidden, trying to survive for as long as possible.
Biennale.py source code. To download you must turn your antivirus off.
Installed at the 49th Venice Biennale. The two connected computers infect and disinfect each other in an endless cycle.
When turned on each sculpture starts an endless cycle of infection, disinfection and rebooting, locked forever in a fight between good and evil.
Perpetual Self Dis/Infecting Machines. Hand assembled computer, Biennale.py virus, Windows 2000, anti virus software, plexiglass
70 x 50 x 13 cm
The virus was widely covered in the news, spreading as a piece of code and, maybe even faster, as a piece of news, going “viral”:
