Simultaneous (2012)

3x3 matrix of YouTube embeds unwillingly hijacked by 4chan's "Operation Moralfag".

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videos in 3x3 table, nine embedded YouTube videos (320x240, 24fps)

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At some point in early 2012, after the upload of this 3x3 forced and looping version of the playlist submitted to the Cirrus Gallery "Once Emerging, Now Emerging: Open Network" exhibition, all videos in this matrix became embedded in a playlist containing the I PREDICT THE COURT - sooprem coat.wmv video by the YouTube user stanleyrr, unknowing protagonist of 4chan's Operation Moralfag. This change was not planned by Collettivo Carmine and happened outside of our control, misteriously affecting the very html code of this page. We suspect that this event was a side-effect of Operation Moralfag, and we accepted the outcome as a much-welcome commentary on the aleatory and unstable nature of crosslinking, online sampling, reblogging and cloud sharing. A simple change on the source website can create a cascade of side-effects impacting on a much larger scale - Stanley's face, gradually conquering the whole video matrix, constitutes the perfect example of the ease with which, in the Internet age, random collages of materials can be transformed into totalitarian simultaneous broadcasts.

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