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🪨🪓Exhibition “Terminal” until Nov 7 @nowhere_newyork (40 Lispenard St)
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The Terminal (2026)
The installation is on view at NowHere in New York through November 7.

@nowhere_newyork
▶︎Sep 10 - Nov 7, 2026
▶︎Tue - Sat, 11am - 6pm
▶︎40 Lispenard St, New York

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In The Terminal, a computer works with brute force to break a hidden passcode, rapidly generating hexadecimal codes at random.

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Trapped between water and a rock suspended overhead, it harbors an irreversible end. The moment it guesses the code, a saw is triggered, the rope is cut, and the rock falls.

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The odds of success are astronomically low—all but impossible—yet the slight possibility never leaves the space. The hit might come on the next attempt, or never come at all. The viewer hangs between the instant and the eternal, amid unseen tension and the hope of a miracle, at the two ends of time (Terminal).

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In this exhaustive search, electrical noise is picked up by an antenna placed in the pool of water. This input is mixed into the random-number process, so that the presence of the viewers has a subtle effect on its process. Because the noise is drawn from the surrounding environment, even the viewers who happen to be in the room come to influence, however faintly, the sequence of numbers being generated.

The work is a poetic inquiry into chance and destruction, unfolding inside a circular structure of nature and technology, and at once a reflection on the endless possibility that destruction opens within human imagination. To find a 64-digit hexadecimal passcode is to pick a single atom out of the universe. Should it ever happen, the destruction is also a release: the computer that succeeds is freed from its endless labor (an end that is both death and rescue) and transforms from a mass-produced commodity into a non-fungible object. Only by breaking does it become a single, irreplaceable thing. In this age of AI, where computers have come to be spoken of as if human, the work stands as a fable about the relation between the machine and what is not the machine. by @exonemo

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Hatch/et (2026)

Hatch/et is an apparatus that endlessly brute-forces randomly generated passcodes, and at the moment it succeeds, brings a hatchet down on itself. A computer, manufactured as one fungible unit among many, meets a code that belongs to it alone and is thereby promoted into something irreplaceable. The cost of that promotion is to cut itself down. Individuation and erasure converge on the same instant.

Now on view at NowHere in New York until November 7.
@nowhere_newyork
▶︎Sep 10 - Nov 7, 2026
▶︎Tue - Sat, 11am - 6pm
▶︎40 Lispenard St, New York by @exonemo

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// Online Project
The Last Acres of the Internet (2026)

In today's internet, parsed out and developed down to the last corner, we have found one last untouched paradise: a domain name made of a meaningless, random string, 63 characters long. On that domain, we have built a vast wilderness of HTML made from random clusters of characters.

The wilderness HTML is a piece of "Unicode art" generated using the domain name as its seed. Within it, characters of many kinds, drawn at random from Unicode, cluster together to form patterns like natural terrain. Among them are many square glyphs known as "tofu," marking spots where no character has yet been assigned. Every year, the Unicode Consortium adds anywhere from a few hundred to more than ten thousand new characters to these unassigned spots. Which means the wilderness HTML keeps changing its face, as characters gradually settle into the tofu over time. It keeps shifting, the way weeds grow over a plot of land left untended.

*Link in Bio for the project site by @exonemo

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@Exonemo, a long-time digital art duo, were briefly our studio neighbors in Dumbo! Their recent series of generative ASCII art landscapes, "Last Acres of The Internet", are delivered on a discrete domain. Really love this concept – already 1 bid on eBay!

https://ebay.io/m/WL54MO

Title: ud1dris1vgpwu0semsdud9uadpt9aqhgeinudlv7ouhzj6h76ujo5yr7ccvwvqy.land
Description:
The Last Acres of the Internet was developed to mark exonemo's 30th anniversary, as a tribute to the net.art pioneers who once broke ground on unclaimed land. As the internet became embedded in society, short, memorable domain names rose in value like land in Manhattan. This project sells domain names made of meaningless, random strings of 63 characters, the maximum length allowed for a second-level domain, as "the Last Acres of the Internet." On this last land spreads an HTML wilderness, a piece of "Unicode art" by exonemo, built from random strings. Buyers gain ownership of the domain name along with this wilderness, and can develop it into a dreamland of their own making. In tribute to the net.art pioneers who once opened up the internet as an untamed wilderness, the project proposes a flight to this farthest edge, away from an internet that has today been developed down to the last corner.

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Link-in-bio for the full group show. taken in eBay by @exonemo

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The Last Acres of the Internet
by @exonemo

63-character domain names turned into digital land, each paired with a randomly generated HTML wilderness for its owner to inhabit + reshape.

Presented by @thesecondguess
Curated by @anika
For Stories We Tell Online.

Exhibited in Linz on 9 September in an internet café
5:00 – 10:00 pm CET
📍 Game & Dine
Blumauerstraße 9
4020

A tribute to the untamed internet of early netart ✦ by @exonemo

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Joiner - Collage Camera
iPhone app original version (2011)
Web app migration version (2026)
@exonemo by @exonemo

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Photo @fumi_nagasaka
Thanks @nowhere_newyork by @exonemo

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BTS of
“Kiss, or Dual Monitors 2026”
by @exonemo

Huge thanks to @lislen, @yebizo, @topmuseum, QAI (@sota.ichikaw), @xvision_space, @arsaffix, HIGURE 17-15 cas, Recycle Park, @hatako, @tiarart, @neort_2 and to everyone who made this possible! by @exonemo

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“Kiss, or Dual Monitors 2026”
will be exhibited at the Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions (Tokyo) from February 6th to February 23rd, 2026!
This is the largest-scale outdoor exhibition in the series to date and features visitor participation. If you are in Japan, don't miss it! 🔗Details link in bio

“Kiss, or Dual Monitors 2026”
恵比寿映像祭(東京)にて2月6日から23日まで展示します！同シリーズの過去最大規模の屋外展示で観客参加型です。お見逃しなく！
🔗詳細はプロフィールのリンクから

@yebizo @topmuseum

Special thanks to QAI, @xvision_space, @arsaffix HIGURE 17-15 cas, Recycle Park, @hatako, @neort_2 and to everyone who made this possible! by @exonemo

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Getting ready for the new installation. Coming up 2026 🪨
#sneakpeek by @exonemo

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DISCODER (1999 - 2000)
*Restored by ZKM

The browser-based software artwork DISCODER, created in 1999 and 2000 (Installation version) as a browser-based tool for creatively destroying web pages, has been restored with the cooperation of ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany.

The original modified keyboard has been recreated by ZKM engineers based on records from that time. For the hardware restoration, we decided to leave the entire process in the hands of ZKM’s engineers—after all, once we’re gone, we can’t do it ourselves!

Now on display at
Exhibition “Choose Your Filter!”
February 1 - August 24, 2025
ZKM Karlsruhe
@zkmkarlsruhe taken in ZKM Karlsruhe by @exonemo

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Callback (2022)

Callback is an installation based on the prescient science-fiction Japanese manga “My Name is Shingo” (Watashi wa shingo) by Kazuo Umezu, that he created during the 1980s, before the spread of the Internet or AI.
Created today, approximately forty years after the original, the idea for this work sprang from the artists imagining what it would be like if Shingo’s thoughts had lived on within the network.

Installation view at Roppongi Hills Tokyo City View

回想回路

回想回路は、楳図かずおの『わたしは真悟』というインターネットもAI(人工知能)も発達していなかった1980年代に描かれた予言的なマンガをテーマに制作したインスタレーション。本作品は『わたしは真悟』が描かれてからおよそ40年が経った現代において、もし真悟の思念が今もネットワークの中に息づいていたらという想像から着想されている。

#kazuoumezu #umezz #mynameisshingo #watashiwashingo
@umezz_art taken in 六本木roppongi Hills Tokyo City View by @exonemo

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