IKU: Expand, an interface #74

“This is not love. This is sex.” Shu Lea Cheang’s feature-length cyberpunk sci-fi porn film I.K.U. (2000) tells the story of the internet porn enterprise Genom Corporation that dispatches I.K.U. coders to collect “orgasm data,” developing the ability to sell profitable and addictive on-demand orgasms. “I.K.U. is a phenomenon that wants to refuse definition …. As much trans-genre as it is trans-gender, I.K.U. also wants to merge video and film into a fresh digital universe large-scale enough to overwhelm the viewer.” In conjunction with the film release, Cheang created an interactive website called “Expand, an interface” (2001) with stills from I.K.U. Using horizontally expanding and glitchin...View all