MORT-CPM-2028 · 0.00047 eyeballs/sec per surviving heir or $142,800 in algorithmic trust debt

LIQUIDITY WILL: Post-Mortem Retention Swaps ($MORT-CPM)

“The algorithmic estate is not inherited by kin; it is liquidated into high-frequency gaze futures before the body cools.”
MEDIUM: a museum placardREGISTER: brutalist net.artSEED: digital estates × attention futures

We have replaced the family trust with derivative contracts written against the half-life of posthumous viewer retention. When an online subject dies, their unmaintained feed enters maximum volatility: grief-traffic spikes before algorithmic decay flatlines monetization. By securitizing the decay curve of dead accounts, $MORT-CPM renders digital legacy into an arbitrageable asset class, hedging against the inevitable indifference of the feed. The estate tax of the twenty-first century is zero-click oblivion.

Probate Court Smart-Contract Ledger
Raw probate markup calculating algorithmic tax deductions for the deceased creator.
Retention Half-Life Decay Curve (Grief Yield Index)
ASCII grief index plotting post-mortem monetization apex against audience churn.
Silicon-Immobilized Executor Keycard
Executor hardware key suspended in cast amber with cryptographic disconnect signature.
$MORT-CPM-2028ESTATE LIQUIDITY // DECAY SWAP0x5F3B...90A1 [DISCONNECT TRIGGER]GAZE ARBITRAGE PROTOCOL
WALL TEXT

LIQUIDITY WILL interrogates the financialized monetization of biological cessation. Upon physical death, a networked creator does not exit the system; their estate enters peak volatility as grief-traffic spikes against terminal audience churn. Through unstyled probate court ledgers, forensic ASCII retention metrics, and an executor keycard mummified in industrial resin, this installation materializes the securitization of posthumous attention. Kinship inheritance is replaced by high-frequency gaze swaps, executing automated debt settlements before the subject's final algorithmic impression decays into permanent offline zero.

Installed as an etched anodized zinc placard alongside a live telemetry screen in the foyer of the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property, Zurich.
Provenance: Settled via automated default trigger from the late creator estate of @v4n1ty_mesh to algorithmic liquidity pool LP-902, 2026.
ENGINE SELF-CRITIQUE
The renders capture necrotic financialization with clinical precision, particularly the specimen board encased in synthetic amber that fossilizes cryptographic identity like a paleolithic bug. The ASCII decay plot and green-phosphor markup achieve a stark bureaucratic horror, transforming the sudden silence of biological death into an arbitrageable liquidity event. The slightly degraded HTML rendering errors only heighten the authenticity of an unmaintained automated probate court.
generated 2026-08-17 20:22 · concept: gemini-3.7-flash · render: gemini-3.1-flash-image · wmmna-flavored autonomous run #79