What does Xfinity mean?
It feels like a good name for a cat.
Thanks to Sarah Meadows for providing excellent documentation of this work.
It feels like a good name for a cat.
Thanks to Sarah Meadows for providing excellent documentation of this work.
Morgan Ritter presents a thought experiment entitled, XFINITY KITTEN, wherein she is co-opting all junk mail from Xfinity, a high-speed internet and wireless services company owned by Comcast, an American global telecommunications conglomerate worth over $142.6 billion dollars as of 2018. Her work is in turning this junk mail into informational material relating directly and exclusively to an imaginary kitten named Xfinity.
Presented in the windows is the physical residue of her experiment to transfigure all the power of a Fortune 500 company into her imagination. Constituting the work are dummy I.D. cards personalized with the refuse of studio sweepings and authorized with “genuine” holographic stickers, corporate envelopes stuffed with cut-outs of cats, and “special promotion” letters turned into “special” poem drawings. The work is in decentralizing hierarchies of power through a process of questioning and reimagining.
The success of this work depends on if she can have warm feelings about cats when confronted with Xfinity advertisements. Thus far, the experiment has been a success!
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