Room 04 · error, noise, chance
Room 04. What if it breaks?
Что, если сломается?
Chance makes art alive and keys strong. An error can be glitch art or a vulnerability: it depends on who finds it.
Pairs in this room
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04/01
1 % disorder ↔ lava lamp
Molnár added one percent of chance to a strict grid. Chance protects keys too: Cloudflare makes them from lava lamp video. Let a password manager invent your passwords.
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04/02
Virus museum ↔ virus
Old viruses drew pictures on the screen; now they hang in a museum. Today's silently encrypt your files and ask for ransom. Turn on automatic system updates.
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04/03
Glitch ↔ vulnerability
Artists turn errors into art. Attackers turn them into lock picks: in 2014 Heartbleed opened server memory. Install updates the day they arrive.
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04/04
Tetris ↔ hacker
Hackers turn buildings into screens and graphics-free computers into Tetris. A hacker is first a maker who learns how things work. Write your first line of code today.
Check 4 of 4
Take a portrait in the photo booth and copy the word from the bottom line of the receipt.
Data does not have to be kept, and that is fine.
Interactives
Lava dice
- Press the button.
- The camera films the lava; the computer hashes the frame.
- The hash becomes a number. No one can predict it.
The noise booth
- Stand on the mark and press the button.
- In three seconds the camera turns you into noise.
- Take the receipt. The word on its bottom line answers check 4.
Opening talk
A bug is a glitch someone exploited
A glitch that works
Every QR code in this exhibition is damaged, up to a quarter of its modules. It still works: the code carries redundancy and can lose 30 %. That is how resilience works, in QR codes and on the internet.