Screen grab image from Shu Lea Cheang’s net art “Expand, an interface” (2001)

Taking the images from Cheang’s sci-fi cyberpunk porn film “I.K.U.” (2000), “Expand, an interface” plays with the glitching of digital frames and expandable narratives. The random scratching of frames challenges the censorship on genital exposure in cinema. In between these cinema frames, we share the cinema’s discreet pleasure.