A bot browsing amazon.com autonomously selects items and places them in the basket. When the basket reaches its limit, items are automatically moved to the “Saved for later” list. The bot also embeds a floating window showing a webcam stream in which the artist can be seen looking at the screen. This performative act is carried out without end, an absurd dialogue between two autonomous software agents that speaks of the cycles of expectation, fulfillment, and dissatisfaction in our consumerist society…
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