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<DIV>I’ve just been reading through the exchange about errors, mistakes and
such.</DIV>
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<DIV>I’ve been interested in these matters re technology and new tech for
sometime.</DIV>
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<DIV>Not sure if I go with S. Turkle’s suggestion here <A
href="http://web.mit.edu/sturkle/www/pdfsforstwebpage/Turkle_how_computers_change_way_we_think.pdf">http://web.mit.edu/sturkle/www/pdfsforstwebpage/Turkle_how_computers_change_way_we_think.pdf</A>
that bugs in software are not readable in the way that other ‘slips’ are. Also
presumably though something fundamental has changed with the emergence of new
technology and the associated systems</DIV>
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<DIV>My practice has involved interaction, misreading and fault finding in the
contemporary technological infrastructure. Recently for example I’ve been using
supermarket self-checkout machines to buy nothing. They still talk back and give
you receipts as evidence of the non-transaction. See spiel and links
below:</DIV>
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<DIV>Background:</DIV>
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<DIV>It turns out that it is possible to use supermarket self-checkout machines
to buy nothing. The artist interacted frequently with the machines in this way
during a three month period, collecting over one hundred zero-transaction
receipts. The film Exchanging uses a transcription of one exchange with a member
of staff, in September 2014, and the receipt obtained.</DIV>
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<DIV>Links to film and other outcomes:</DIV>
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<DIV>Audio: <A
href="http://www.soundcloud.com/mocksim/self-checkout-interaction">www.soundcloud.com/mocksim/self-checkout-interaction</A>
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<DIV>Audio: <A
href="http://www.soundcloud.com/mocksim/self-checkout-1">www.soundcloud.com/mocksim/self-checkout-1</A>
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<DIV>Book: <A
href="http://www.artsproducts.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/less.html">www.artsproducts.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/less.html</A>
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<DIV>Film (4’15’’ loop): <A style='href: "https://vimeo.com/126480392"'
href="https://vimeo.com/126480392">https://vimeo.com/126480392</A> </DIV>
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<DIV>Transcription poem:</DIV>
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<DIV>Artist: Can I keep that?</DIV>
<DIV>Staff: Yes you may.</DIV>
<DIV>Staff: There's nothing on it.</DIV>
<DIV>Artist: I know yea.</DIV>
<DIV>Artist: It's quite interesting to see a zero.</DIV>
<DIV>Staff: Okay.</DIV>
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<DIV>Micheál O’Connell</DIV>
<DIV><A href="http://www.mocksim.org">www.mocksim.org</A>
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