Quick Fix, 2019-2024
Machine selling likes and followers
Quick Fix is an interactive installation. The artwork makes it possible to buy followers or likes in just a few seconds. For a few euros you already have 200 of likes on Instagram.
“Quick Fix “is easy to use. Choose your product, pay and fill in your social media username. You receive the like or followers just a few seconds later. The accounts that like or starting to follow you are fake accounts.
The products in the machine are easy to change. It can sell likes and followers for the following platforms: Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter. The coin acceptor can be setup so it accepts any currency in the world.
Every order is saved in a database and its saved with the location of the exhibition, date, city, country.
Quick Fix V1 is commissioned by Pixelache in Helsinki and was produced in Dries his studio in Ghent, Belgium. Quick Fix premiered at Pixelache festival on 19 May 2019 in Helsinki. A second version was released on 4 Nov 2021 commissioned by KIKK Festival in Namur for the 10 year edition.
Hardware: Raspberry Pi 3B+, Arduino , power supply’s, coin acceptor, buttons, LCD (I2C)
Software: python 3, Firebase Cloud Firestore database,
commissioned by
- Pixelache and KIKK Festival