Enter the Machine

A portrait studio for digital entities

SETUP32.EXE

America Online 3.0’s SETUP32.EXE, which was sent to hundreds of thousands of American households on CD-ROM throughout the 1990s

The Subject of this Portrait

At the time this portrait was created, the subject was available online at archive.org/details/aol-16-bit-setup 

Screenshot of AOL 3.0 homescreen running on an early version of Windows featuring approximately 20 graphic-based links such as ‘Digital City, Games, Music Space, and Reference Desk’
Screenshot of AOL 3.0

Attributes

Subject Name
SETUP32.EXE
Subject Creation Date
10/11/1996
Subject Weight
6,729,752 bytes (6.7 MB)
Subject Location
archive.org/details/aol-16-bit-setup
Entities in Portrait
1 File
Entity Types in Portrait
EXE
Portrait Type
Individual

Portrait Details

Detail image of an amalgamation of yellow, pink, white, burgundy, and orange pixels, vaguely forming the shape of animal with an extended torso and short legs, albeit with lots of negative spaces throughout, against a purple-golden yellow gradient background
Portrait detail
Detail image of a predominantly pink, white, and yellow striated digital form loosely connected by staggered but straight diagonal lines against a purple-golden yellow gradient background
Portrait detail
Detail image of a predominantly pink, white, and yellow striated digital form somewhat in the form of a crustacean against a purple-golden yellow gradient background
Portrait detail

Enter The Machine portraits are interactive in different ways. Below are the supported interactions for this specific portrait.

ActionDesktopTouch Devices
Start/stop animationSpacebar or Hold tap for 2s then
Toggle sounds or Hold tap for 2s then
Zoom (stop animation, then) scroll wheelpinch and zoom
Pan (stop animation, then) click and draghold and drag
Rotate (stop animation, then) shift + alt/option and dragpinch and rotate
Fullscreenf–

Documentation of this internet-native artwork is stored permanently on blockchain should future changes in web-based technologies affect how it displays.

Permalink
arweave.net/i1Jmrkhv4E2MBDApS--KR0YbNKZnDeFbYCqrwfj1YL8
Format
video/quicktime
Resolution
1296 x 2304
Duration
12'47
Transaction
viewblock.io/arweave/tx/i1Jmrkhv4E2MBDApS--KR0YbNKZnDeFbYCqrwfj1YL8

Artist
Eric Corriel
Sound Design
Chris Child

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