literalize-the-metaphor · autonomous run 116 · 2026-08-17 21:27
⌖ Argentina corralito · Buenos Aires, Argentina · December 2001 - January 2002
Acoustic Liquidity Pool: Constant Product
The kinetic friction of public outrage is an unpriced economic commodity that can collateralize and execute the automated thawing of frozen sovereign capital.
Piezoelectric cookware routes protest decibels into a liquidity pool to thaw deposits. · motion: accumulating acoustic kinetic energy to force a mathematical phase change in frozen liquidity
wall text
This installation reimagines the December 2001 Argentine bank freeze (*corralito*) through the mechanics of an automated market maker. Piezoelectric sensors affixed to metal cookware route the acoustic energy of a *cacerolazo* directly into street-side server racks. The system treats acoustic volume as an input asset within a constant product liquidity pool ($x \cdot y = k$), where sound forces the incremental release of trapped fiat deposits. As decibel levels saturate the pool, transactions encounter steepening slippage curves and pesification penalties. The work reframes raw civic outrage not as political speech, but as an unpriced thermodynamic commodity capable of executing automated sovereign capital flight.
shown: Installed as a temporary architectural intervention directly in front of the preserved facade of the former BankBoston building at Florida and Diagonal Norte, Buenos Aires.
shown: Installed as a temporary architectural intervention directly in front of the preserved facade of the former BankBoston building at Florida and Diagonal Norte, Buenos Aires.
anchor facts used
- Economy Minister Domingo Cavallo issued Decree 1570/01 on December 1, 2001, strictly limiting cash withdrawals to 250 pesos or US dollars per week.
- Citizens protested via 'cacerolazo', repeatedly striking steel pots and pans directly outside the chained doors of foreign bank branches like BankBoston and Banco Galicia.
- The trapped $40 billion in deposits was ultimately subjected to 'asymmetric pesification' under President Eduardo Duhalde in 2002, permanently devaluing the frozen assets.
mechanism
- Automated Market Maker (AMM) Constant Product Formula (x * y = k) — The smart contract instantiates a liquidity pool maintaining a constant mathematical product where x is the volume of frozen 2001 peso deposits and y is the accumulated acoustic decibels of protest strikes.
1. Initialization of the Bonding Curve - Price Slippage — Citizens strike wired steel pots, feeding decibels (y) into the pool to withdraw thawed micro-pesos (x); as acoustic volume saturates the pool, the relative yield of thawed fiat decreases exponentially per strike.
2. Piezoelectric Deposit Routing - Arbitrage Routing — Sensors detect when the acoustic yield at one bank's server drops too low, algorithmically signaling protesters to route their kinetic strikes to adjacent, less-saturated branch pools for better exchange rates.
3. Cross-Branch Acoustic Hedging - Impermanent Loss — The contract forces a global reset of the constant product (k), revealing that the total acoustic energy expended yielded less purchasing power than the baseline value of the frozen assets prior to extraction.
4. Fiat Realization
lineage
- RYBN's 'ADM 8' — Shifts the automated trading algorithm from the obfuscated realm of high-frequency stock markets to the highly visible, physical acoustics of street-level riots.
- Paolo Cirio's 'Loophole for All' — Adapts the structural exploitation of abstract financial architectures, re-orienting it from offshore tax evasion toward onshore liquidity extraction.
- Julian Oliver's 'Harvest' — Expands on the concept of extracting computational value from ambient environmental forces, replacing wind-powered cryptocurrency mining with outrage-powered fiat thawing.
curatorial qa (machine verdict, unedited)
SCORE 4/5 after 1 attempt(s)
READS: The wiring of protest cookware into the street-level server rack visually establishes physical noise as data input. The receipt artifact clearly explains the acoustic AMM curve, linking decibel thresholds directly to liquidity slippage and forced pesification.
FAILS: The green graphical overlays on the bank facade feel somewhat decorative rather than reading as functional liquidity gauges or phase changes in sovereign capital.
READS: The wiring of protest cookware into the street-level server rack visually establishes physical noise as data input. The receipt artifact clearly explains the acoustic AMM curve, linking decibel thresholds directly to liquidity slippage and forced pesification.
FAILS: The green graphical overlays on the bank facade feel somewhat decorative rather than reading as functional liquidity gauges or phase changes in sovereign capital.
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