TONG LIU
ART
200 Times of Corrections for Zero and One
Screenshots
Single channel video, 76 min 42 s
2022
Tong took a screenshot of the page defining the terms "zero" and "one" in Wikipedia, uploaded the image to a social networking site and then downloaded it, then uploaded the downloaded image, downloaded it again, and repeated it 200 times. The compression and loss of data transmission blurs the text, and the final text information is indistinguishable.
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0 and 1 are used as basic symbols to form a binary system, which forms most of the current computer systems. When the form of the text is gradually changed and the meaning is gradually eliminated, the information is only left with the traces of binary processing constructed by 0 and 1. It is hard to say whether the final image is further away or closer to 0 and 1.