During 2012-2017, Miyö Van Stenis explored the limits of Operating Systems. A series of live performance using her "desktop" as a creative tool, displays random errors and glitches generated through coding, Automator app and human actions. Inspired by John Cage's Prepared Piano, Van Stenis let the machine express herself till it collapse and needed to be reboot.
Desktop Performances for the Live Performers Meeting MEX 2013 at CENART, Mexico City
Register by Edgar Buitrago
We <3 your Com-Puter is a series of browser and desktop performances exploring the sensory and emotional dimensions of computer interaction through deliberate system failure. The work examines how glitches and errors humanize digital experience, making technology feel closer, simpler, and more intimate.
In art, errors become aesthetic wonders. The results obtained from multiple export filters and synthesizers create beautiful sound and visual textures. Sometimes the media seems to express itself through its component elements, processes, and codes. Beyond the complex problems of functionality and dysfunctionality whether the nature of the error, a software glitch, or transfer processes and data compression, this action impacts issues such as the computer metaphor and its relationship with online identity.
The performance deliberately pushes the computer to its maximum capacity until it collapses, requiring a system restart to continue working. The visuals of this process are projected in space while the sound is performed, first through the sound system dysfunction emitted by the computer itself, then using software control like Pure Data. Data processing is performed using a touch screen iPod Touch connected to the computer via the OSC protocol, creating a complex dialectic of devices and software that pushes the limits of the computer toward dysfunction. Using pop-up windows and looping audio, the work transforms browser interaction into an immersive performance that questions our relationship with computational systems and explores the poetry of digital failure.
This project has been analyzed in academic literature examining net art aesthetics and browser-based performance: García García, Lidia (2023). "World Wide Shit: Basura digital en las prácticas artísticas latinoamericanas" [World Wide Shit: Digital Garbage in Latin American Artistic Practices]. Mitologías Hoy, Vol. 17.
Continue her work on interfaces, operating systems, software, and other devices involved in everyday Internet use. She transforms them into her aesthetic material. Her interest lies in representing the relationship between humans and machines, poetry and computational science, turning her investigation into experimental work where the machine expresses itself. This serves as a hyperbolic reflection of its world, primarily as a performative action where the value lies in human action in pursuit of error, the unexpected, creating a meeting point between the human, the machine, the error, and the undeniable desire for poetic beauty.
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OPEN STREAM for the Contemporary Museum of Bogota /// FEB 24th /// OPEN STREAM para el Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Bogotá — en Tinychat.
OPEN STREAM made by ACNLRYS - A Creepy Night Light Reflecting on Your Screen: Systaime & Miyö Van Stenis.
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