Statement

Bend In April of 2005 I received a desperate email from someone who argued that he had sex with me a few years ago and that he is now infected with HIV. He wishes that I am also infected with the virus and that "I die and suffer in the worst possible way". He used the nickname George Tower, a name I do not remember. I immediately replied to this email but unfortunately my message bounced back. The reply-to address did not exist. In my response I was saying that I do not have HIV and that he should look for advice and support because being HIV positive does not mean that he has to suffer and die. I tell him that he needs treatment and help, and I can provide some support if he ever needs it. Because the message did not go through, I decided to create SIDA/AIDS as a method of understanding what was going on in the mind of George Tower - as of 2023, I still do not know who this person is. The only way I could let that person know that I care about his illness was by creating and posting this interactive animation, de-constructing his message looking for hidden messages and using a mathematical algorithm that I created in order to visualize the chaos that he is living in. His email becomes a flock of words that grow and fill the screen until they lose their meaning, acquiring only an aesthetic significance. To play with the interactive kinetic typography piece, please visit https://santi.tv/sida