Until October 2th, Antonio Vega Macotela participates in “Beyond the Sounds of Silence. Latin-American Artists Connecting Sound, Art, and Society”, an exhibition at the Lowe Art Museum that explores the interaction of image, sound, memory, and perception.

«Twitter bots are sold wholesale on the dark web. The cheapest pirate accounts are just a name, while the most expensive tweet automatically, give likes, retweet, even answer DMs. A bot is more effective the more it resembles a human. Thus, is not strange that more than 55% of Internet traffic are bots: hordes of bots can change public opinion and even create governments. I converted part of the source code of one of the most used bots by the American ultra-right into hexadecimal language. These 16 characters were transformed into sounds by a beatboxer who interprets them in an order that composes the code, mixed with grime, techno, acid house and the 9th aphorism of Guy Debord's Society of Spectacle: "In the really inverted world the true is a moment of the false".»