GOBLIN.exe

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artist: Mark Fingerhut

inception: 2020

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Description

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GOBLIN.exe is software that uses real malware techniques to take over the user’s desktop temporarily, only to delete itself upon completion, minutes later. A desktop poem, or a one-act desktop play, the work choreographs built-in elements of the Windows operating system—including Notepad, error messages, and the command line interface—to tell a story of privacy, the nature of time and memory, and reconciliation with the unstoppable waxing and waning of interpersonal relationships.

attributed to: Mark Fingerhut

inception: 2021

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artist: Mark Fingerhut

title: GOBLIN.exe

inception: 2020

Variant History

outside link

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access URL: http://www.markfingerhut.com/index.php/artdisks/goblinexe/

inception: 2020

associated with: Mark Fingerhut

outside link

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access URL: https://vimeo.com/386111348

inception: 20 January 2020

associated with: Mark Fingerhut

video

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access URL: https://video.rhizome.org/videos/embed/cca405bd-72d5-46c5-84f4-bd024a7338d0

inception: 16 December 2021

generated by: file copy

associated with: Rhizome staff

download

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access URL: https://variants.artbase.rhizome.org/Q12195/GOBLIN.exe

inception: 26 December 2021

generated by: file copy

associated with: Rhizome staff

web archive

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access URL: https://webenact.rhizome.org/Q12196/http://www.markfingerhut.com/index.php/artdisks/goblinexe/

inception: 26 December 2021

generated by: web capture

associated with: Rhizome staff