I love you | 2nd series (2005)(Bangkok MAF special edition)
   

25-28 February
MAF 05 Bangkok, Thailand
I love you (special edition - preview url - high speed connection needed) @ Feb MAF05 [+] | [+]

“4.Wanting to write on love, is facing the mess of language: this panic area where language is both not enough yet too excessive […] and poor […].”
Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

Any time that a picture must be seen by someone connected to I love you images collections, the picture is treated by a love writing program. The image source code is opened and modified. An application calculates a very precise variable number taking in consideration some internet server's parameters and some user's connection information… this number is re calculated on every new request for a picture.

Once this number determined the application searches in picture's source code if this variable is present. If it's found, it's replaced by the sentence ‘I love you': the architecture of the code is disturbed. The web browser needed for the viewing interprets the file and tries to display the picture. But transformations in the source code may modify it and can lead to the apparition of artefacts like; pixelation, distortion, addition of new colours, partial or total reinterpretation of the picture, disappearance of the subject in the picture or even absolute impossibility for the browser to display the picture: apparition of a broken icon…