(void)traffic
-Net-based computer installation, running
of software written in C(open source) (2003/4)
yunchul kim
Innumerable codes (organless body)
flow to there own IP address into the net in this dynamic
rearranging space of codes without a
specific reference. The network port is open, and the
codes are transmitted through the port
from the inside and outside. You can imagine that you
are standing next to it, observing this
rushed, imaginary landscape. Each code is a fragment
of text, sound, image, e-mail, net-bot,
software, etc. and simultaneously an expression of
desire of this situated at the end of
network. (void)traffic sends these codes to the console and
enable a dynamic, turbulent, mumuring
ASCII poetry to arise(emergence) and at the same time
be deconstructed.
(void)traffic provides a spectacular
experience of data traffic: a direct, real-time visulaisation
of
thecode being excuted on a specific
server. By monitoring this server it visualizes the ongoing
traffic of digital information in a
selected area of Internet. The code is displayed in waves of
activity. High activity results in
protuberant eruptions that can be associated to constantly
ongoing nuclear fusion processes on the surface of the sun. The
data traffic is sonificated and visualized as a casacade of
ASCII signs thrown up from the floor as a black and white
digital organism. -transmediale
