In the world of computer & Internet we all have, at least once, come across a glitch and a computer virus. I am fascinated by both. I study glitches and I use them to make my art. Malwarez are, like it or not, part of computer history. Their evolution has been wild and huge. From simple programs to challange other programmers and prank early computer network users, they eventually became powerful weapons to cause damages, ransoms, wars. Considered a primitive generation of smart softwarez, before they became dangerous and silent, they were manifesting their presence through edgy graphic art works. Part of my series V1R0L0GY, this work is a celebration of computer failures, computer culture, internet history and the poetic of chaos.
This is V-Sign virus, the third of the series being minted as NFT.
V-Sign is also famous as Cansu and Sigalit. It is a classic boot sector virus that started to spread in 1992. It uses slightly polymorphic encryption and and at payload it will display its "V Sign". At this time, it causes the system to hang. It's place of origin is Turkey.
Read more on at The Virus Encyclopedia http://virus.wikidot.com/v-sign
The work was made interpreting the image data of a .bmp at 256 colors as sound in Audacity. Those altered data were polluted with audio data and exported into image data again. This process is known as databending interpretation.
