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Eight self-contained broadcast studios running an endless procedural loop. Cut off from the internet, floating mouths deliver live commentary on world events they cannot access. By running the full apparatus of broadcast credibility over an empty signal, the work isolates the news anchor as a trust machine and offers a safe form of doomscrolling.
Each station filters the same non-event through its own manipulation strategy, such as manufactured urgency or false balance. The platform requires interactive tokens to be fully self-contained, with no network calls; Malpractice treats this security constraint as the concept: the work cannot know the world, by design. The system clock seeds the schedule, so a non-event breaks across all eight channels at the same moment. The voices come from an embedded formant synthesizer.
Presented in Stories We Tell Online during Ars Electronica 2026 (objkt).
More: https://malpractice.network/works/the-news/ · Live channels: https://malpractice.network/the-news/
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HTML/JavaScript, Generative Sound (Formant Synthesizer), Eight Interactive Tokens
