16.01.2009; Fridericianum, Kassel
Each website installs cookies on the computers of their website users. They cavort to hundreds on every computer, too often without knowing it by the owners. It`s so easy to generate a cookie just to place it unnoticed afterwards. Therefore we have a website, solely for this purpose, programmed. The value of our cookies, as well as the name is set to "FUCK YOU". This "FUCK YOU" has no connection to the viewer or recipient of this cookie only to the cookie itself. This makes the "FUCK YOU" cookie a tribute to all data that has landed inadvertently on our computers
We have transported the "FUCK YOU" cookie to the real world, to find out how the recipients of such cookies respond. Through a subtle invasion into privacy, the symbolic placement of a cookie in a strange case, the recipients were inadvertently exposed to our mercy.
It`s an intrusion into other peoples pockets though we would like to express how virtual and real world are linked. It was to explore their relationship and to project this parallel worlds.
Each website installs cookies on the computers of their website users. They cavort to hundreds on every computer, too often without knowing it by the owners. It`s so easy to generate a cookie just to place it unnoticed afterwards. Therefore we have a website, solely for this purpose, programmed. The value of our cookies, as well as the name is set to "FUCK YOU". This "FUCK YOU" has no connection to the viewer or recipient of this cookie only to the cookie itself. This makes the "FUCK YOU" cookie a tribute to all data that has landed inadvertently on our computers
We have transported the "FUCK YOU" cookie to the real world, to find out how the recipients of such cookies respond. Through a subtle invasion into privacy, the symbolic placement of a cookie in a strange case, the recipients were inadvertently exposed to our mercy.
It`s an intrusion into other peoples pockets though we would like to express how virtual and real world are linked. It was to explore their relationship and to project this parallel worlds.
