Addle Eratat is a Facebook multi/identity human performance for algorithms by Mighty Kongbot Addle Eratat are feeling amused, excited, blessed, awesome, emotional, furious, sad, tired, great, wonderful, annoyed, sorry, meh, bad, better, guilty, special, sick, good, refreshed, lazy, entertained, sore, strong, full, perplexed, nauseous, hopeless, crappy, low, free, discouraged, impatient, determined, ashamed, fresh, sexy. Addle Eratat like listening to music, watching a movie, reading, celebrating, playing, making lots of things, eating, drinking, meeting lots of people, traveling. Addle Eratat like thinking about doing something crazy, making a change, someone special, old memories, the future, life and the meaning of life. Addle Eratat are looking for inspiration, a miracle, love, weapons of mass destruction, a partner in crime, easy money, god, salvation, an angel, the holy grail, wi-fi.
Addle Eratat are an internet human persona performing for algorithms and people. Addle Eratat break through the illusion of the unity of the self and feel themselves to be multiform, a league of many. Addle Eratat just want to be free to be whoever Addle Eratat feel like to be. Addle Eratat are the unmappable!
Addle Eratat’s Statement
“I saw the world wide web: as if it were all an endless carpet of data; and, hugging it, I was beatified, feeling myself truly, in the midst of all those data, with a sense of immemorial distance that almost cause me anguish, a sweet anguish. Ah, to lose oneself there, logging in and abandon oneself, just like that among the networks, in the silence of the Internet: to fill one's soul with all that profound blue Facebook, sinking into it every thought, every memory! There I became whoever I wanted to be and I am them and we all are Addle Eratat."
Addle Eratat is all world wide web based. Every photo, every translation, every link. It’s www remixed and posted again on the www, a wild flux of altered data. We used Google Image for images to post and profile pictures, Google Translate to translate texts in every languages used. The project took place on Facebook, Twitter and Google but mostly is a Facebook multi/identity performance. It was articulated and shaped around different actions that worked as a kind of play script and they are “Likes marathon”, “Big Liar”, “Life diary”, “Become one”. We tried to use all, or at least most, of the functions available from Facebook to produce Altered Data (Addle Eratat is the anagram of Altered Data) to “obfuscate” and confuse Facebook algorithms and Facebook users. We used Gmail to register to numerous newsletters and we kept a calendar of all of the things that Addle Eratat did since they came to life. Twitter was a one way tweeting with Facebook, we tweeted to Facebook every things that Addle Eratat was doing. We did have interactions with various profiles on Twitter but we mostly tweeted to Facebook. We downloaded data from each platform at the end of every week. Addle Eratat last action was posting texts we received on Addle Eratat Gmail account. We used “Hola VPN” to change location for every character performance.
The performance took place during the months of the “The Wrong – New Digital Art Biennale” and it was featured in the pavilion the “(in)exactitude in science” curated by Kamilia Kard and Filippo Lorenzin. The pavilion was also featured afk at the Cairo Biennale in Egypt.
applymagicsauce.com/test.html was used to verify how another software would perceive the identity that was developing within Addle Eratat each week. This app was based on the algorithm then used by Cambridge Analytica.
Mighty Kongbot The Mighty Kongbot is a being with the attitude of a gorilla and the intelligence of a robot, made by humans and shaped by media. Mighty Kongbot is kept alive by Luigi Console & Domenico Barra. mightykongbot.tumblr.com/