Artist Statement

Kindle (2012)

KindleGlitched is a series of glitched kindles donated, found or bought on eBay, signed by the artist. The generated visuals are unique and permanent. The work can be contextualized in relation to Retail Poisoning, which is the act of intentionally injecting critical/corrupt/fake/ glitched data and/or hardware into existing online and offline retail outlets.

• Benjamin Gaulon is an artist, researcher and art college lecturer. He has previously released work under the name Recyclism. Gaulon’s research focuses on the limits and failures of information and communication technologies, planned obsolescence, consumerism and disposable society, and ownership and privacy, and operates through the exploration of détournement, hacking and recycling. His projects can be softwares, installations, pieces of hardware, web based projects, interactive works, street art interventions and are, when applicable, open source.

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