Question
For the Venice Biennale (“bee-en-NAH-lay”), Eva and Franco Mattes created one of these things titled Biennale.py. Conceptual artist Joseph Nechvatal used custom examples of these things in making several painting series, including bOdy pandemOnium. Six of these things are contained in the Guo O Dong artwork The Persistence of Chaos; that work was the first “drop” released by the MSCHF (“mischief”) art collective. Mikko Hyppönen, who curates an online “museum” of these things, made a short documentary where he traveled to Pakistan to find Amjad and Basit Farooq Avi, who made one of these things called Brain. One of these things was dubbed (*) Michelangelo because it activated every year on his birthday of March 6, and was the source of a 1992 media panic that turned out to be nothing. For 10 points, a hypothetical “Warhol” kind of what program is named for taking 15 minutes to infect the whole Internet? ■END■
ANSWER: computer viruses [accept worms; accept malware or ransomware; accept any descriptions of malicious code; prompt on “software”, “computer code”, or “computer programs”] (Feel free to deduct 10 points if someone negs with “NFTs”.)
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