Executing Liveness: An Examination of the Live Dimension of Code Inter-actions in Software (Art) Practice

Winnie Soon and Helen Pritchard, Thousand Questions, custom software, 2016 (2012). The poetics of the piece combine human-generated language and computer-generated characters and words, rendering the human inhuman through the process of text and audio translation. The piece engulfs the viewers in an endless set of unanswered queries. (© Winnie Soon and Helen Pritchard.)

Winnie Soon, The Spinning Wheel of Life, custom software, 2017. The Spinning Wheel of Life responses to technological networks, data transmission and material substrates in real time. (© Winnie Soon.)

Winnie Soon, Hello Zombies, custom software, 2014. Through running the automated living machines, the artwork intervenes the network by writing spam poems to zombies and reading networked replies continuously. This project explores zombies of the living dead that bring forward social, technical, capitalistic and aesthetic relations in everyday lives. (© Winnie Soon.)