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# Paizley Lee filled DEAD INTERNET THEORY's second LA night with a rainbow of iMac G3s
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/paizley-lee-filled-dead-internet-theorys-second-la-night-with-a-rainbow-of-imac-g3s/
- Published: 2026-08-14T03:28:14.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-14T03:28:14.000Z
- Description: The response to an internet run by bots turns out to be a room: a Y2K LAN night where salvaged hardware does what the feed no longer can.
- Author: Kill Screen Staff
- Tags: Installation, los angeles, net art, retro, diy, Dead Internet Theory, Paizley Lee, LAN Party

Dead internet theory started as a message-board conspiracy—the internet is mostly bots talking to bots—and has aged into something closer to a description. Just this week we covered [Playfool's \[OP\]erator](https://www.killscreen.com/playfool-built-a-working-bot-farm-that-hands-you-the-controls/), a playable bot farm that makes the point with 100 phones. The sharper responses, though, are happening off the internet entirely.

DEAD INTERNET THEORY is LA artist Paizley Lee's version of a response: a recurring "Y2K LAN experience" staged at ark/8 on La Brea under her WORKSUCKS banner. The first night, in May, was a proof of concept—22 retro PC stations on the floor, a CD-burning station, a table for building mini cyberdecks, internet-café catering. On August 2 it came back, and Lee—who posts as kidgrandma—spent [the announcement reel](https://www.instagram.com/p/DbhN5rvyYNO/?ref=killscreen.com) introducing the iMac Rainbow, a floor installation of candy-colored iMac G3s she jokes she "LITERALLY DESTROYED MY LIFE TO ACQUIRE," alongside games and installations from Benjamin Palmer, John Threat, and others.

![A CRT monitor and beige PC tower glowing under a desk lamp at DEAD INTERNET THEORY](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/84/2584b75d-4bd6-4cce-8259-f1d1c65abbb5/content/images/2026/08/dead-internet-theory-retro-pc-station.jpg)

One of the retro PC stations at DEAD INTERNET THEORY, from [kidgrandma's reel](https://www.instagram.com/p/DbhN5rvyYNO/?ref=killscreen.com)

The funding is its own small rebuttal of the feed. Mike Merrill—the artist who has sold shares in himself as KmikeyM for 18 years—[put $5,000 of shareholder money to a vote](https://news.kmikeym.com/vote-5k-in-dead-internet-theory/?ref=killscreen.com) as first money in on Lee's raise. One social experiment about being a real person online, bankrolling another about being real people offline.

The LAN party keeps resurfacing as a gallery form. Brennan Wojtyla's *LAN* rebuilt Antwerp's TICK TACK gallery into a working *Counter-Strike* network, and [we flagged it in July](https://www.killscreen.com/brute-horse-abide-bucknell-achiampong/) when Berlin Atonal restaged it. Wojtyla's version is technological brutalism; Lee's is the candy shell. Both make the same bet: the internet was a place once, and a room full of humans and CRTs is the fastest way back. RSVPs for the next one live at [worksucks.net](https://www.worksucks.net/?ref=killscreen.com).