The Persistence of Chaos

The Persistence of Chaos is an art object in the form of a virus-infected laptop by the Chinese artist Guo O Dong.

Description and reception

The technical basis was a Samsung NC10 netbook from 2008. This computer is equipped with the Windows XP operating system and was deliberately infected with the biggest viruses and malware in the computer's history.[1]

The laptop was marketed through the artist's own website and was auctioned off as a work of art for $1,345,000[2] This led to worldwide media coverage.[3][4][5]

gollark: It's a shame my laptop CPU predates Tiger Lake by a generation, since it looks like Intel actually managed significant performance uplifts there.
gollark: Well, that CPU is worse → not very surprising.
gollark: Did umnikos?
gollark: What if something something march=native mtune=native?
gollark: I see.

References
  1. Sonja Peteranderl (2019-05-27), "Kunstauktion: Die wohl teuerste Virenschleuder der Welt wird versteigert", Spiegel Online (in German), retrieved 2019-05-28
  2. "The Persistence of Chaos von Guo O Dong: Kunstwerk mit Viren" (in German).
  3. James Vincent (2019-05-25). "A laptop filled with six of the world's most dangerous viruses is on sale for more than $1 million".
  4. Sonja Peteranderl (2019-05-27), "Kunstauktion: Die wohl teuerste Virenschleuder der Welt wird versteigert", Spiegel Online (in German), retrieved 2019-05-28
  5. Десподов, Даниел (2019-11-18). "Вирусите в Persistence of Chaos, които нанесоха щети за над $100 милиарда: ревю". kaldata.com (in Bulgarian). Retrieved 2019-12-05.
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