This interactive artwork was produced as part of the Clark Digital Bursary during residencies at PVA Medialab in Bridport, Dorset, and Watershed Media Centre, Bristol.

'Corruption' is essentially a pejorative noun, closely associated with bad morality and dishonesty. As a process it charts a path of decay, to 'impurity'. Used in relation to computers it is more associated with 'containing mistakes' - different from the original. A mistake is not necessarily a bad thing, or morally bad. In this circumstance you could formulate the equation that mistakes plus time equals corruption. An error is generally also a mistake, however an error can have moral implications, such as in 'the errors of one's ways' - the 'errors' here being wrong behaviour or beliefs. The difference is notably whether a procedure is accidental or not.

When, in the book of Genesis, God instructed Adam and Eve not to touch the tree of knowledge in The Garden of Eden, he knew they would disobey. God's human prototypes were created inherently corrupt. And placed in a landscape primed to be corrupted. The garden was God's own interactive installation. The secret knowledge to be garnered was potentially mind-blowing. And also the bitterest of pills.

The Clark Digital Bursary is supported by The J.A.Clark Charitable Trust, The University of the West of England, South West Arts, Watershed Media Centre, PVA MediaLab

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