thus becomes an anti-artifact. It is the video that never should have been recorded, the file that leads nowhere, the stream without a viewer. In the age of endless content, boredom is the only true scarcity—not because it is rare, but because it is aggressively filtered out.

Consider the conceptual net.art piece: a file named “Cam Nofile Boring Mp4” that, when downloaded, is empty—zero bytes. The user double-clicks, and nothing happens. The player shows a black screen. Duration: 0:00. The boredom is total because there is no file to be bored by.

A “boring” cam mp4 might be: twenty minutes of an empty chair, a sleeping cat, a flickering fluorescent light in a hallway. These are the files that fill hard drives, never uploaded, never watched again. They are the digital equivalent of breathing—necessary, constant, unremarkable.