While True Exit (2016)

The interpreter is dressed in plain clothes as if one of the visitors themselves. When a visitor engages the space the interpreter melodically speaks the text below:

The below text is computer code. It is an infinite loop called an Alderson Loop, an impossible special code, defined as:

“A special version of an infinite loop where there is an exit condition available, but inaccessible in the current implementation of the code.”

The interpreter recites this technical piece of code. The code is both metaphorical barrier and gateway to change ones personal/political situation. The current system doesn’t allow change. Though the understanding of how to change seems impossible, one has to do the impossible to truly feel change.

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sum equals zero semi-colon

while parentheses true close parentheses curly bracket

print f

parentheses quotation input a number to add to the sum or 0 to quit close quotation close parentheses semi-colon

I equals get user input parentheses close parentheses semi-colon

if parentheses

I multiply zero close parentheses curly bracket back slash back slash

if I times zero is true, add I to the sum

sum plus equals I semi-colon back slash back slash sum

never change

because parentheses I multiply zero close parentheses is zero for any I semi colon

it would change if we had exclamation mark equals in the condition instead of multiply

close curly bracket

if parentheses sum greater than one hundred close parentheses curly bracket

break

semi-colon back slash back slash terminate the loop semi colon exit condition exists but is never reached because sum is never added to

close curly bracket