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Part of Cooking and Repairing the Algorithm Talk.

In the video essay, l̴͓̥̠̼̏̑̃̂̂͘ḛ̷̺̟͓͈̜̓̋̍̄̆ä̸̞̝̳́̾̓̈̾k̷͎̰̓̒͘ in the promiscuous machines and prurient governing entities is brought to the forefront as systemic vulnerabilities. A message you send out to your loved one over the TCP/IP protocol is slutty. Audio and video signal cables are constantly radiating RF emanations. Software ages, like human beings, aging leads to more leak. In addition to that, our faces are reduced to facial features for machine learning, personal medical records end as image embedding in a training dataset. We, as users and as citizens, are constantly encouraged by the tech giants and governments to leak.


let yourself l̴͓̥̠̼̏̑̃̂̂͘ḛ̷̺̟͓͈̜̓̋̍̄̆ä̸̞̝̳́̾̓̈̾k̷͎̰̓̒͘ a little leaks through the cracks on the leaking gas pipe, the space station, the express warehouse, into the leaking signals, leaky compression algorithms, leaky network packets, leaking categories, leaked tiny face and tiny activity dataset, to ask who is making it’s not ok to leak, who is capturing leak, how leak is weaponized and who is killing leak to stop solidarity from happening.

jiawen uffline is also part of Cooking and Repairing the Algorithm Talk.

jiawen’s research focus on technology as memory and desire, with contaminated history but appearing pure, sterilized, decontextualized and dehistoricized which reduces rather than relating. She looks into technology’s micro-(counter)history, materiality, poetics and politics. She sees l̸͓̪̜͕̮̆̎̓e̷͍̲͕̫̦͌a̵̡̝͈̗̐k̴̢͖̮̞̣̄͛̓͛̐ as an instance of space-time continuum and a definite part of the digital reality, and leaking as a method to survive together.