zeroglab r:dam - Károly Tóth

yazad
1997 Helsinki, Finland
With the grant of the Ministry of Culture of Finland & MUU MEDIABASE.

Renaissance EX
The Object's name is YAZAD. It is a Zoroastrian term for a 'created spiritual being, angel'. The Object covers the area surrounded by the cities below. It levitates, and functions as a stationary knowledge base above the Southwest region of Finland at an altitude of about 1000 meters. To prevent premature interception and 'friendly fire', YAZAD maneuvers by morphing its own topology, an its meaning.
YAZAD is designed to monitor anti-Renaissance, anti-Cartesian, ethical and catatonic activities in zero-G environments in the region. It is programmed to intercept and infect.

The Object is camouflaged, using stealth technology provided by memetic engineering. For the observers it must be identified as an artifact since art is the most vulnerable area at this time on the skin of society. A highly irritable erogenous zone, an ideal vector to penetrate deep into the ideosphere of any target. Through infection, YAZAD can cause a distortion in the believe-space of the target, which, on the long term forces it undergoing processes of variation (mutation, recombination), or causes an exponentially dividing of the target's space-concept to a liquid like pulp. Which is then recyclable to a certain extend. Digital space-concepts are 100% recyclable.

The Object is 292.5 km long, 147.2 km wide, visibility range is ca. 650 km. It must be seen from St. Petersburg.

[MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!]