In the lobby of the Finnish security firm WithSecure, a striking enormous heart hangs from the ceiling This article explores click love art. . Each of the 728 computer mice that were crowdsourced from all over the world to create the heart is painted pink.

Two artists, Hugo Lankinen and Kasper Hildén, created the "Click for Love" art installation. They imagined a pixelated heart where each mouse functioned as a three-dimensional pixel.

The heart alludes to the notorious ILOVEYOU virus, which infected email systems in the early 2000s with attachments that falsely claimed to be "I love you." According to Mikko Hyppönen, Chief Research Officer at WithSecure, this pink heart reflects the delicate nexus of technology, trust, and human emotion in addition to honoring a significant period in cybersecurity history. "Click for Love" is the focal point of WithSecure's Museum of Malware Art, the world's first such establishment.

The Net Gala has featured artists such as Chia Amisola, a "Internet ambient" artist who explores the dynamics of love, labor, and liberation on the web; Nika Korchok, who combines hardware security with traditional art, concentrating on bootkits, DOS malware, and reverse engineering; MORAKANA, a studio in NYC that reimagines the role of technology in nature using custom tools; and Summer Surgent-Gough, who uses darkroom prints and personal ephemera to photograph New York City's queer scene. Related: Chainlit AI Framework Could Be Broken by Vulnerabilities ## Destruction's Aesthetics Although they may not consider themselves artists, cybersecurity professionals frequently use creativity in their work. It takes creativity and unconventional thinking to find weaknesses or disassemble things.

According to Alex Delamotte, a senior threat researcher at SentinelOne, both worlds require creativity, curiosity, and the capacity to dissect things into their most fundamental parts. She collaborated with DeVera and others on a number of projects at the nexus of art and cybersecurity, such as the inaugural The Net Gala in 2024.