The amount of information we receive daily is enormous, and most follows a complex process. This process is almost like an automated program made to satisfy our desire. It is the simulation, which makes the human thought simple as to be easily repeated many times by a machine. When they are connected to each other, the complexity consequently increases exceedingly to alienate human intervention. Then you will probably hear a voice insisting on user friendly interfaces, but then it conceals how the technology functions. It seems that information technology is intelligent enough to meet our desires, but it often means that we become the target of marketing. We cannot avoid being mediated with the world with technologically produced pictures and texts. What is the role imposed on an artist?

It is to disclose its function of this pseudo-human technology by executing a game by adding an unexpected element to their program. It re-affirms the freedom of our life since it turns into an independent state out of relationship of interest. The work of exonemo and their performances are such games indeed.

Their feature appears radically in their early online work »Discorder« in 1999. The websites we see everyday are formed by the HTML text beneath them. They are disclosed to most users. When you type on the keyboard randomly, the characters and numbers the user enters, intervene with the Hyper Text Markup Language and appear as user type on the website. This exposes the technological layer behind the surface: It is very playful if you see the user type on the keyboard, as if firing a machine gun he finds that the website is collapsing by the characters and numbers he types in. This work also shows the fragility of technology when the applications receive information which was not included in the program in the first place – at the same time we recognize their uncontrollable behavior.

While repeating simple calculations, the digital technology shows complicated behavior, but is much different from the previous one since its process is invisible. The important feature of exonemo’s works is to give users an intuitive experience of this invisible black-box with tangibility. They operate like a game and the objects react to the user’s input and produce movements, which act on our bodily experience. By giving random inputs, autonomous movement and unexpected behavior occurs. It is a sort of violation of automatic program operations in our daily life. With this violent intevention the process of technological production is unveiled. It is a totally different feature compared to the dictatorship of real time, which reduces our time experience.