Wednesday, June 5, 2019

Quick Fix – interactive art exploring social media #Art #SocialMedia @driesdepoorter @Raspberry_Pi

Quick Fix by Dries Depoorter is a vending machine (and art installation) that sells social media likes and followers. Drop in a coin, enter your social media account name, and an army of fake accounts will like or follow you.

The products in the machine are easy to change. It can sell likes and followers for the following platforms: Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter. The coin acceptor can be setup so it accepts any currency in the world.

Every order is saved in a database and its saved with the location of the exhibition, date, city, country.

Quick Fix is commissioned by Pixelache in Helsinki and was produced in Dries his studio in Ghent, Belgium.Quick Fix premiered at Pixelache festival on 19 May in Helsinki.

The hardware includes a Raspberry Pi 3B+, Arduino, power supply, coin acceptor, buttons, and LCDs (I2C)
The software: Python 3 and Firebase Cloud Firestore database.

See more from the author here and the video below.

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