broadcast.null

broadcast.null is a transmission terminal addressing a ship whose existence remains undetermined. Part of the larger work ark.await(∞), it occupies the programming concept of null: a channel that is open, an address that is declared, a value that is indeterminate. The terminal transmits the way Sisyphus pushes: as a continuous practice in the face of radical unknowability.

Through twelve interactive modules, visitors send messages that dissolve (recipients: 0), listen to a procedural radio scanning through layered noise, watch a ship's log type testimony across millennia, exchange words with a damaged communication channel that oscillates between static and unsettling recognition, complete literary fragments in transmissions too corrupted to verify, enter their name into a guestbook that forgets, and clear procedural fog whose disturbance ripples through other modules in ways the visitor may sense but cannot confirm. Everything passes into DER RAUM, a shared visual sediment where individual transmissions become collective, unrecognisable. Before leaving, a boarding record: evidence of having been aboard.

The terminal runs as a live web platform. All interactions, on site and remote, feed the same system in real time. DER RAUM accumulates. The passenger count grows. The terminal persists beyond any single exhibition.