[sh[i]e[l]d]

[Testo disponibile solo in inglese] [sh[i]e[l]d], by lixt, is an audio visual live coding performance focused on information, noise and video feedback. A way to address the power and misuse of the mass media industry which delivers tons of speculative and click bait information to the public causing an endemic vulnerability of social and political understanding and opening space for the fake news industry to thrive. How to protect ourselves from this standardized medium? How to defend our autonomy, free thinking and diversity of viewpoints if the information we consume from the supposedly trustable sources is biased and money driven?

This project does not gives answers but tries to raise questions while uses the homepage of well-known newspapers as an arena for debate, creativity and play, neutralizing its imposing aesthetics. The local side live coding manipulation of the web page through the browser console is blended with musical live coding environment. The result is a noisy, glitched performance which plays around with information (text and image), grid and design of the newspapers front page.

Against the shedding of our sanity
And the shadiness of our conscience
A shield for the mind
A shed for the soul