(MIS)COUNT

Alien objects float on an Instagram account. Scanned with a precarious machine,

which makes them 3D in the best possible way. With the few resources

it has, the machine tries to do its job. Small inexpensive machine. Distorted

shapes, with rough edges, with disfiguring lines.

Objects are everyday objects, even if they don't seem like it. They have a

house and they have an owner. They have an owner who does not leave his

house and even though he does not move, he still wears a step counting bracelet.

Little machine that no longer has to count and still tries to count. Miscounted.

The machine counts steps that no longer exist, steps that are just

short movements of its owner at home. The machine looks for ways to keep

generating data.

Glitch: Reported File Error / Author Machine

Glitch in digital biometrics / Human being thought from / by the device

*Excerpt from Ana María Garzón curatorial/coauthored text for Miscount: virtual exhibition

dataforming

Alternate / complex landscapes

Transmission of perception / Transmission of existence

Error / Non-human interpretation of human / context

Non-human perception / continuation of the human

Human machines / Everything is data

What routes? How much space can be created with each

miscounted step of my devices?

Terraforming Terraforming Terraforming

Terraforming?

This says Wikipedia:

Terraformation: As a proper term that describes processes

aimed at the intervention of a planet, natural satellite

or other celestial body to recreate in it the optimal conditions

for terrestrial life, namely, an adequate atmosphere

and temperature, and the presence of liquid water. This

is the original use of the term.