A software program randomly combines 200 most common three-to-five-letter nouns in the English language, generating ten thousand possible word pairs. The program then randomly adds the words “black” and “white,” thus generating eighty thousand possible paragraphs. With this device the artist exposes racialization mechanisms underlying the automatic logics of the sea of algorithms that mediate contemporary social relationships in the digital universe, creating unconscious apartheids through the naturalization of language. The work is an example of Medeiros’s artistic use of ludic expedients, blending formal lightness and dense political content.
