Framed installation of 'INPUT.OVERRIDE' by Characters ASCII, a contemporary queer artwork rendered in ASCII code on salvaged dot-matrix paper, exploring machinic submission and ritual override.
Macro detail of ASCII-rendered face in 'INPUT.OVERRIDE,' an experimental queer digital study composed from found imagery and printed on continuous-feed computer paper.
Staged installation of 'INPUT.OVERRIDE' by Characters ASCII, shown alongside a sculptural chair and sawhorses to emphasize scale and material contrast in this post-digital homoerotica study.
Composite source photo used for 'INPUT.OVERRIDE,' combining found imagery of open-mouthed male faces to construct the input for ASCII-based queer image processing.
Additional close-up view of 'INPUT.OVERRIDE,' highlighting the fragmented facial contours rendered through monospaced ASCII characters in this queer conceptual study.
Processed composite image for 'INPUT.OVERRIDE,' refined and cropped before ASCII translation as part of Characters ASCII’s conceptual workflow in queer digital art.
INPUT.OVERRIDE — touch transmitted: override enforced — hold open the channel.
Details:

    Year: 2022

    Format: 1 individual sheet

    Dimensions per sheet: 38cm × 102cm (~15″ × 40.2″)

    Total: 38cm × 102cm (~15″ × 40.2″)

    Printing method: ASCII output via dot-matrix on salvaged continuous-feed paper

    Important Note: based on found materials

    Edition of 3 (signed + editioned)

    Ships unframed

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      Curatorial Note
    In INPUT.OVERRIDE, an early exploration of enforced connectivity, the body becomes port: mouth rendered as open channel. Consent dissolves into code—one protocol breaches another. The ASCII-rendered faces—split, braced, breached—register not violence, but the architecture of imposed transmission.
This study foregrounds the tension between language, flesh, and command at the moment of override. Input is neither offered nor refused; it is executed, line by line.
Printed as a preliminary output on salvaged computerized paper, INPUT.OVERRIDE experiments with the translation of erotic ritual into machinic sequence—an early map of force, submission, and syntax.

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