@wysiwygbot was a Twitter bot (RIP), extending long-term project W.Y.S.I.W.Y.G (acronym for what you see is what you get), giving it new meanings every day. The project manifests as a GUI caret icon—a light sculpture against checkered walls mimicking graphic transparency—transforming the vitrine into a virtual vacuum ad infinitum. Its first iteration, What You See is Where You Go, evolved into Wear Your Soul in Wordy Yesterday Gold, plunging deeper into asemia: on the flickering brink of “I,” we wade through the undertows of cyber sea, taking refuge in noise, awaiting meaning's delayed dawn. In its afterlife as a single-page web app, @wysiwygbot refreshes every 30 seconds, mirroring the thermodynamic entropy of semantic decay where meaning is liberated into possibility. Letters reorganize and iterate; @wysiwygbot becomes a Maxwell’s demon of language, sorting syntax not by certainty but by the flickering voltage of doubt. For InterAccess’s fundraiser, the digital image editions are offered as mosaic shards of this flickering machine.

ABOUT THE ARTIST Xuan Ye works across art, music and technology. X makes noise as a generative space to evoke the dissonant, untranslatable, and illegible pulses and pauses that make meaning stutter, systems tremble, challenging the regimes of knowledge production. Often through improvisation, computation, and fiction, X composes software, sounds, images, installations, editions, performances, and pedagogical experiments. Their work has appeared at the MOCA Toronto (2022), UCCA Center for Contemporary Art (2022, Shanghai), UQAM (Montreal) and Venice Architecture Biennale (2021), Peer to Space (2021, Berlin), MUTEK Montreal (2020), Vivid Projects (2019, Birmingham), and Goethe-Institut (2018, Beijing), among others. They are an artist-in-residence at the Centre for Culture and Technology (2025), a digital artist-in-residence awarded by Pro Helvetia (2023) and a recipient of grants and scholarships from Canada Councils for the Arts and the SSHRC. X is an Assistant Professor at the University of Waterloo.