” let yourself l̴͓̥̠̼̏̑̃̂̂͘ḛ̷̺̟͓͈̜̓̋̍̄̆ä̸̞̝̳́̾̓̈̾k̷͎̰̓̒͘ a little “

In the video essay, leak in the promiscuous machines and prurient governing entities is brought to the forefront as systemic vulnerabilities. A message you send out to your loved one over the TCP/IP protocol is slutty. Audio and video signal cables are constantly radiating RF signals. Software ages, like human beings, aging leads to more leaks. In addition to that, our faces are reduced to facial features for machine learning, personal medical records end as image embedding in a training dataset. We, as users and as citizens, are encouraged by the tech giants and governments to leak. This video leaks through the cracks on the gas pipe, the space station, the express warehouse, into the leaking signals, compression algorithms, network packets, tiny datasets, to ask who is making it’s not ok to leak, how leak is weaponized and who is killing leak to stop solidarity from happening.

Jiawen Uffline
jiawen exists as a user most of the time in their life, having little agency as a standard user, both technologically and politically, she seeks for otherwise possibilities for queering the given identity of a user, their wish is to be an analogkäse in the digital figurations and drip sizzling fat on the cables and ports. apart from that, jiawen’s research focuses on technology as memory and desire, with contaminated history but appearing pure, sterilized, decontextualized and dehistoricized, operating through reducing rather than relating. jiawen looks into the (counter)history, materiality, poetics and politics of technology. She sees l̴͓̥̠̼̏̑̃̂̂͘ḛ̷̺̟͓͈̜̓̋̍̄̆ä̸̞̝̳́̾̓̈̾k̷͎̰̓̒͘ as an instance of the space-time continuum and a definite part of the digital reality, and leaking as a method to survive together.