Regina and all,
I always wonder about the forensics of computer memory. It is said that
you can never completely erase a hard drive, short of physically
destroying it, that the police/FBI/CIA can retrieve any information
that was ever entered, even if the hard drive is reformatted. I wonder
if one ever really loses physical memory. And what of involuntary
memory? What about associative web surfing in a manner that transcends
deliberate recollection/searching, a web search that explodes like a
flood of involuntary memory from a bite of a virtual petite Madeleine?
I like the idea of the ATTIC, of memory being stored on old, discarded
computers. Memory that does not die, but fades, bit by bit, byte by
byte, or just sits suspended in the ether until someone powers up with
the old software.
-Peter Ciccariello
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Subject: [WDL] The attic and the topic how will digital life affect
human memory
Hello Millie and all ,
Millie, thanks for remind me the Museum of the Essential and Beyond
That's attic. I think the attic could be included in the topic: how
will digital life affect human memory. The attic was a 2002 -
collaborative project between Reiner Strasser (http://netartefact.de/ )
, http://nonfinito.de/ ) and I. To this work Strasser wrote:
"In the corner of a room is sitting my old computer with all the stuff
I have created on it. Is it a real art object? Wouldn't it be the right
instrument to play the art created on it, the right way to present and
preserve it? --- Now it is virtually placed and visible in the Attic, a
spaceless gallery of the Museum of the Essential and Beyond That."
What is being showed in the ATTIC are old computers and the
web.art/net.art/digital art made on these machines. The attic is just
the memory of the digital life being preserved. I do not know for how
much time it will be possible to do this, because of the rapidity with
which the information technologies develop. Any way our intention is to
call atention to the necessity of the preservation of this memory. Will
it be possible?...
After Millie's email I re-visited the attic. There was much time that
I had visited the attic and I got surprised with my own machines and
works there...
By the way there are yet some places to artists that want to have
their "old" works and machines in the attic.
The best adress to see the attic is:
http://arteonline.arq.br/museu/attic/introattic.htm
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Also I would like to invite you to browser at:
http://arteonline.arq.br/newsletter/reviews2005/english_yto_cl.htm .
There you can read the new collaborative review.
The guest artist of the third collaborative review of the Museum of
the Essential and Beyond That's newsletter (
http://arteonline.arq.br/newsletter/reviews2005/english_yto_cl.htm) is
Isabel Aranda YTO CL. Aranda was born, lives and works in Santiago,
Chile.
She is working with ASCII and Flash and Arkaos and ... and .... Her
work is really very interesting. Now we are talking about "Mini Art
Dance"
(http://arteonline.arq.br/museu/netartwebart/mini-art-dance/art-dance.htm
l)
Below some comments:
"I am intrigued by the mixture of ASCII art (a very spare, minimalist
style based on old fashioned computers) and the painterly, lush style
which Aranda
uses in her backgrounds to the animations of Mini Art Dance. I would
not have thought that these two styles are compatible, but Aranda uses
them
together to great effect." (Millie Niss - http://www.sporkworld.org)
"I love mini-art-dance; and one thing which I think is particularly
nice about it is that if you click on several of the links one after
the other,
you get several of the audio tracks playing at the same time, and they
all synchronise with each other. You can display several of the
mini-windows on
screen simultaneously as well: each new one you open sends the old
ones into the toolbar at the bottom of your screen, but you can drag
them out again
and arrange them around the place.
It's very feminine and glamorous, isn't it? But at the same time it's
quite modern and even a touch aggressive in places. I wonder if Isabel
sees this
as a representation of modern woman in a digital environment, or the
modern female artist in a digital environment - or is it less of a
conscious
statement than that?" (Edward Picot - http://www.edwardpicot.com )
If you want to know how Isabel Aranda gets to do so amazing work, read
the third collaborative review at:
http://arteonline.arq.br/newsletter/reviews2005/english_yto_cl.htm
In fact, these collaborative reviews also could be included in
September topic, nowadays they are a way to show what is being produced
by the digital artists but in the future they should help people to
remember the Art of our times.
Computers and Internet are extensions of our memories. Thanks to them
the human being has now an enormous memory compartment. It is not
necessary to register everything in our brains.
Best regards,.
Regina Célia Pinto
http://arteonline.arq.br
http://arteonline.arq.br/library.htm
http://bigsheep.blogspot.com
New Work:
http://arteonline.arq.br/eva/
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