Minimum Security, 2006

Venezuelan SSN Database, Hacking on Paper
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Minimum Security is part of the datagram series. It is spatial representation of the Venezuelan Social Security Number database. After an extensive search on the DB, all the SS numbers of the people who were born in February 4, the day when Chavez initiated his revolution, were selected and arranged as a wallpaper.  Thus, what the viewer sees is a numerical representation of all the people born the same day (Feb 4) for the past 100 years.
The meaning of the content was kept in secret and revealed during a lecture at the Museum Jacobo Borges, were the piece was exhibited, three weeks after the opening.