Temporary.cc | Self-destruction

Again surfing on Vimeo I came across this absolutely great idea!


Temporary.cc from zach gage on Vimeo.

It is about digital data and how these can be on the internet forever.
Temporary.cc eschews this paradigm. For each unique visitor it receives, Temporary.cc deletes part of itself. These deletions change the way browsers understand the website's code and create a unique (de)generative piece after each new user. Because each unique visit produces a new composition through self-destruction, Temporary.cc can never be truly indexed, as any subsequent act of viewing could irreparably modify it.
Eventually, like tangible media, Temporary.cc will fall apart entirely, becoming a blank white website. Its existence will be remembered only by those who saw or heard about it.

Performance art?

I have to admit I am no big fan of performance art. Sometimes I find it really difficult to understand it and I just see people who move around, dance, shout or even harm themselves in different ways. Also I translate it the way I want without really focusing on what the artist really wants to say (well that's I guess the democracy of art). But for my topic I think theater and performance art are very close.

The body in performance is dying in front of our eyes. Unceasing process is out there in the flesh. Or hangs, perceptually, on the audience's breath.

Pizzato M., (1998) Edges Of Loss, USA : University of Michigan Press, p. 1.

So I came across this video on vimeo which is a quite literal interpretation of its title if you ask me. But it still demonstrates it quite nicely.


TRACES from www.labomatique.com on Vimeo.

You are free to express your mind about it and let me know what you think! Cheers!

Camera Less Photography

A recent visit to Victoria And Albert museum has helped me a lot with the development of my project. The exhibition Shadow catchers : Camera less photography has truly been extremely inspiring.
The reason is because although I knew that photography has been one of the mediums extremely attach to my topic, I never thought of using it completely different and how other people share the same questions and interest in things.
An example is photographer Susan Derges, one of the photographers exhibiting at VnA at the moment. Her work is so close to my ideas (her concept that is). She explains that photography is looking at absent moments, that they are no longer there. So it is quite a lot I think to do with loss as well as holding and showing, in her own words.
So one of my ideas is to try to push my self into this direction (event though I hesitate in the beginning) and explore new mediums within photography. Long exposure has been a very close friend of mine recently and I have treated "her" with love as well, but it's time to move on I think to more experimental techniques.



Unfortuantely I could not show the original video as shown at the VnA 'cause its set to private, but this one (even in german!!) shows exactly what her work is about.

http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/photography/shadow-catchers-camera-less-photography/videos/susan-derges/index.html
This is the actual link to VnA's web page if you want to visit.

What Susan Derges does is that she uses photographic paper tracing water with the use of a flash light.