Cedric Price, elevations and environmental control chart for British Transport Docks Board Computer Centre, Middlesex, 1967 Cedric Price fonds, CCA Collection DR1995:0236:055, DR1995:0236:54
From the exhibition: 404 ERROR: The Object is not On-line
The Digital Dump | An infographic about electronic waste at GOOD #datathanatology <— Remember: today is the last day for sending submissions!!
More info about Data Thanatology CFS
DATA THANATOLOGY | CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS | UNTIL 30 OF NOVEMBER
If you were asked to store your most valuable data… What kind information would you keep in 130 Kb? Your usernames and passwords, your delicious tabs, a PDF with all your tweets, a map as a biography? Do you think this data would be valuable if mapping the genomic code of knowledge at this moment? It would be useful for anyone but
you?
With this challenging question DPR-BARCELONA start a publishing project in the intersection of technology and seed banking.
A floppy disk as a seed?
In this sense the project is also a complaint, a call of attention on the temporality of the devices we use to keep our information.
Is all the information we keep really valuable? Aren’t we collecting data devices filled with useless junk DNA? What happens with our information if “the cloud” evaporates? Would we be able to rearrange key information combining it efficiently with matter and without wasting energy… just like nature does?
It’s possible that in the future, those basic info units from different seeds will be combined by data genetists in the hope to reestablish the genetic code of the ideas at this time. Maybe they will keep this basic units in other devices, into new kind of seeds.
There will be stored only 99 floppy seeds with submissions [genes of 130KB] from guest contributors randomly combined with submissions from an open call.more info here
via eme3blog
L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui on microfilms vu par @samuelxgarcia #datathanatology
Patent drawing | Issued patent: US6747831
Research for the project Data Thanatology by dpr-barcelona
Control Room at Valley Forge —from Silent Running | #datathanatology
Silent Running [1972] | Space, geodesic… extinction and preservation | More info: Silent Running
NOTE: Soon we will be calling for proposals for a “time capsule book” > Digital Media Euthanasia #datathanatology
