Mocksim's Work

Background:

It turns out that it is possible to use supermarket self-checkout machines to buy nothing. The artist interacted frequently with the machines in this way during a three month period. Over one hundred of the receipts, recording these non-transactions, were collected. This is a recording of one interaction.

See also:
Film: https://vimeo.com/126480392
Book: http://artsproducts.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/less.html
Audio: https://soundcloud.com/mocksim/self-checkout-interaction

Self Checkout Interaction (Long)

Recording of a short exchange with one supermarket staff member who was trying to help. They wanted to confiscate a receipt which had been obtained through use of the newly installed self-checkout machines to buy nothing. 'There's nothing on it?'

See also:
Film: https://vimeo.com/126480392
Book: http://artsproducts.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/less.html
Audio: https://soundcloud.com/mocksim/self-checkout-1

Transcription:

Can I keep that?
Yes you may.
There's nothing on it.
I know yea.
It's quite interesting to see a zero.
Okay?

There's Nothing on it?

Program saved onto cassette for ZX81, way back

ZX81 Example

A discussion between Huw Bartlett and Micheál O'Connell (recorded on their mobile phones) about Joseph Young's exhibition The End of Listening in 2011.  Transcription of part of it here: http://www.a-n.co.uk/interface/reviews/single/1051236 

Joseph Young Review 26 Jan 2011

John Peel pronouncing Micheál

Mocksim Radio Interview Cork October 2012