White Rabbit 3.0

Author: Naivy Pérez
Title: White Rabbit 3.0
Year: 2012 – Present
Genre: Net Art
Dimensions: Variable
Technology: Client Side. Languages: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript. Libraries: jQuery v3.5.3
Edition: Unique

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STATEMENT

In 2012, the project entered a new conceptual and technical phase with White Rabbit 3.0, a version designed for the web. In this new habitat, the virus no longer functions as such: it does not propagate or affect operating systems. Instead, it replicates the logic of temporal regression through programmed behavior, unconstrained by proprietary software limitations.

Accessed through a browser, White Rabbit 3.0 simulates a continuous chronological reversal, beginning in 2012 and descending into a time prior to all human measurement. The work proposes a metaphysical expansion of time—one that transcends historical, technological, and religious boundaries—and moves toward a temporality suspended between the finite and the infinite.

Hosted online, White Rabbit 3.0 gains a longer, though still finite, lifespan—determined by its own code. Its progression becomes a symbolic loop: a descent into the unknown, an attempt to return to the absolute origin—or even to a time before time itself.

White Rabbit is, as a whole, a trilogy that interrogates time through digital, poetic, and systemic perspectives. Across its three stages, the project moves from potential threat to museographic containment, and from there to symbolic expansion in the digital realm. It is a work that insists—just as the White Rabbit once warned—that time is not something we should take for granted.

White Rabbit does not merely question time: it hacks it, subverts it, and returns it to the chaos from which it may have never truly emerged.