DISCODER

This application enables users to create apparent inconsistencies in any web page, infiltrating its HTML code and syntax by typing on their own keyboard. Different keys cause different actions – inserting a bug into the website’s HTML code, removing a bug, making bugs interact with each other, and so on – resulting in inconsistencies that gradually alter the web page. The work interferes with the internet’s system, destroying the consistency of a website’s code in an experience that evokes hacking. Originally created for Shiseido’s online gallery CyGnet (1998–2003), it was first presented in 1999, receiving widespread attention as a unique artwork that incorporated a game element.

Audio Commentary (Japanese)