404 Object Not Found Seoul 2007
404 Object Not Found_Seoul

404 workshop_10.26_Daniel G. Andujar
10.26 Fri Case Study: “Post Capital” Daniel G. Andujar (artist, spain)
{press} 404 project Seoul 2007
International Symposium and Workshop
regarding data/media art preservation, presentation and archiving “404 Object Not Found_ Seoul2007” October 22 - 26 2007 @ Total Museum of Contemporary Art “In memory of the heroic boys and girls that worked deep into the night for all those months, in those small and hot offices at CERN, Rom 404 is preserved as a ‘place on the web.’ None of the other rooms are still used for the Web. Room 404 is the only and true monument to the beginning of the Web, a tribute to a place in the past, where the future was shaped.” Copyright © 1997-2003 Room 404. All rights reserved. When internet is introduced to daily life, people excited about this totally different world form our physical space. It makes blur the geographical distance and time zone. When people access to the internet, they will see limitless-like space. Just like this, web is considered as the space which is very of the secured, the safe and most of all, the free. Even it seems to be very much equal space for everybody. However, unlikely our expectation, Web is the still very fragile and tentative space. Unfortunately people do not take this as the serious issue.The Database Imaginary: Memory_Archive_Database v 4.0
Steve Dietz in Database Aesthetics edited by Victoria Vesna 2007 In 1968, in a report to the Rockefeller Foundation during a residency at SUNY Stony Brook, argued that 97 percent of all electronic music was not recorded and that "a simple measure would solve the whole problem. An information center for unpublished electronic media should be created."1 At the time, this meant such a center would "provide a Xerox copy and a tape copy of musical pieces, at the request of performers, students, and organizers from all over the world." Convert analog to digital, and the dream lives on, perhaps more vibrant than ever, of a universal database archive, with access to everything by anyone anywhere at any time.