COMPUTER
Nick Bastis,
Bernadette Corporation,
Tomaso Binga,
Steve Bishop,
Jay Chung and Q. Takeki Maeda,
Emilio Prini
Things inside Computer are both hidden and expressed. There are overlapping similarities and things nestling oddly in gaps between surfaces, surreptitiously inhabiting speci c worlds (cinema, fashion, an alias, another artist, etc) like a spy a dinner party or a bacteria hosted by that spy’s bowel.
Two events come to mind that may be pleasurable to imagine:
When a house y slips undetected into Seth Brundle’s teleportation device in Cronenberg’s 1986 lm The Fly, the telepod’s computer, confused by the presence of both the y and scientist, fuses Brundle’s and the insect’s genes, creating a volatile and hybrid lifeform, “Brundle y.”
In 1947, when an actual bug was found inside a malfunctioning Mark II supercomputer (a moth stuck between the relay ca- pacitors), the insect continued to camou age itself behind the word ‘bug.’