#code poetry

{

me.SearchFor(you, me.youPos);

}

if(!me.you_pos || world.FindDistance(me.pos, me.youPos) > me.acceptableTravel)

{

me.Feel(emotions.sad);

"Tranquility" (A Poem)

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commit 9a9c2c5431fd590d48d0e705e8e8e131ab7bfc31 by Nahee Kim

Nahee.App is an ongoing performance by Nahee Kim, in which code poems, images, and video express sexuality as automation. The code poems appear on Instagram, formatted in a code-friendly monospace font with line numbers -- but also with italics, pastel backgrounds, and the larger margins of a formal invitation. The text pieces are interspersed with selfies, crude 3d models of breasts, and other cyborg-sexual images that inject sexual desire and anxiety into computational processes.

Oh, and many are quite funny, especially the visual works: Kim uses code's inflexibility to make sex even more absurd. Take the "game started" animation. The user is asked whether they want to have sex with the app; if so, compatibility is checked. Kim leaves us with no resolution, but the mystery is less in the outcome and more about the automated process that will determine the app's desire. I can't help but imagine a huge questionnaire like on dating sites of the '00s, that matched people and reported unrealistic margins of error.