Rewire Truth

The work explores how we, often unknowingly, participate in mutual manipulation and meaning-making within digital and social systems. This experiment invites four participants into a live case study on how we collectively construct and sustain fabricated truths. In the setup, each computer forms part of a synchronized system that uses the Open Sound Control (OSC) protocol, this enables real-time communication across the network. Participants' responses are transmitted and recorded into a continuously evolving archive - a shared artifact of the group’s interaction — which is presented at the end of the experiment. During the installation to participate one of the four computers had to be approached and the on-screen instructions followed — the experiment began once all four positions were occupied.

In collaboration with Joe Loubser, Illia Salavei, Julia Tomaszewska and Borislav Chobanov

Part of the code

import netP5.*;

import oscP5.*;

NetAddress sender_to_a;

// computer a NetAddress sender_to_b;

// computer b NetAddress sender_to_c;

// computer c NetAddress sender_to_d;

// computer d NetAddress sender_to_e;

// computer e  OscP5 oscP5;  void setup(){ 

oscP5 = new OscP5(this, 12000);  

// canvas  size(400,400); // size  background(0); // background color 

sender_to_a = new NetAddress("172.20.10.3", 12000); // assigning an address to my sending object 

sender_to_b = new NetAddress("172.20.10.2", 12000); // assigning an address to my sending object 

sender_to_c = new NetAddress("172.20.10.4", 12000); // assigning an address to my sending object 

sender_to_d = new NetAddress("172.20.10.5", 12000); // assigning an address to my sending object 

sender_to_e = new NetAddress("172.20.10.6", 12000); // assigning an address to my sending object  } 

void draw(){}   

void keyPressed(){ 

OscMessage myMessage = new OscMessage("/oldValue"); 

if (key == 'y'){  // key y is pressed 

myMessage.add("yes"); 

} else if (key == 'n'){  // key n is pressed 

myMessage.add("no");  }    // send to host  

myMessage.add('b');

oscP5.send(myMessage, sender_to_a);  } 