.TXT File
Not for Sale
Why create or participate in an ever more fucked up version of capitalism, when we can simply… not.
Trust me enough to download the text document. Open it. Read it, or don’t read it. Erase the text, add your own text to it, save it, or don’t. Open it in any application. It will format correctly or it won’t. It’s yours, and now you have an ongoing relationship with it (and with me, sort of). It can be edited, or saved, or trashed, or printed, or lit on fire, or recycled, or deleted, or not.
Cassie McQuater is a new media and video game artist living and working in Los Angeles. Her practice involves hours of surfing the net, mining for digital artifacts, and repurposing them as a way to reflect on and reinvent our relationship with interactive storytelling.