M HKA Ensembles

Painting, variable dimensions.

Collection: Courtesy of the artist .

Plenge Jakobsen’s work Terminator, 1997, is another text-based mural painting that was inspired by his experience of Chicago. Using the title of James Cameron’s film, Terminator was also the name of a now-classic jungle track by producer Goldie in the early 1990s. Both the Terminator and rave music have been used as examples in so-called ‘Accelerationism’ theory that was first developed in the 1990s as a critique of capitalism’s reliance on speed and efficiency. Just like the feeling of much darker Jungle music, Plenge Jakobsen’s reference to the killer machine of Terminator evokes a certain dystopia in the visions of where society may be heading. In a double reference to Chicago, the Bitmap font was generated by oversizing the Chicago font, which was the default system font for earlier Mac computers from 1996 until the early ipod's.