Safe mode: .

• Main Author: Riviere, Sam
• Format: Still Image
• Language: English
• Published: Test Centre 2017
• Subjects: Artists' books; permafrost
• Online Access: https://digitalcollections.saic.edu/islandora/object/islandora%3A10593

"Text printed from both ends of the book and meeting in the center, each of the two versions replicate parts of the same text but narrate it from a different point of view. The artist performs a series of low level tests on the operating system, aka our perceptual systems, working in perpetual safe mode. Like all proper resource management systems, Safe Mode manages our memory resources and soothes images according to upper level processing constraints, and reveals how the world looks at itself. Safe Mode is the "re-automation of our language and vision systems, locked down in the 21st century's version of a software permafrost: all our linguistic attachments to faces, all our Airborne bookings, all our mirrored ATM affects–minus the spam filters, and the black mold of course. Broken spam filters, tick removal, the world's saddest polar bear, undealt-with undertones and a ghostly parade of totemic, masculine constructs rise up out of apparently benign linguistic matter. Like being run through a memory test, repetitions occur in sneaky guises, the faulty bits are re-jostled. In here, words and images are fleeting engagements, but, the text implies, attention is your resource".--Info from https://testcentre.org.uk/