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The Count

How much can you count ?

Digital art, coding – 2023.


This counter embodies the naive questions of childhood. How high can you count? The idea behind this question confronts the current reality of an individual’s value in a capitalist society, and the increasing importance of machines in our lives. Coded and running autonomously on a private server, this counter has been steadily increasing by one unit every second since its launch on October 20, 2023.

With it, I’m trying to give a radical answer to the simple question, which may have animated me as a child, by delegating the task to a machine, thus revealing even more the absurdity of the process. What does it mean to have our dreams realized by a computational entity? This counter will run until I myself am gone. It is unique, and all the instances of it on the internet or in exhibitions are the visualization of it updating.