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Notes / ideas / future / aarg

1.Digital makes access, not preservation 2. There have always been issues with technology as a means of storages 3.The home movie is a way of idealise the memory’s 4. Archives control the history 5. Memory and history is two different things 6. Technological memory can not mimic human memory. 7. Human memory is selective 8. Digital is material as in where it is stored 9. Printed last longer then digital 10. The Utopic future is always been resold to us. 11. Todays technology is yesterdays mysticism, technology as magic 12. tech industry is 50years of over promising and undelivered 13. There is always loss of information 14. There is more information being proceed now them ever, but so is the loss. 15. Memory about objects as well as memory from an object.. (memory for a photo being taken as well the memory from what on the photo) 16. archive is power and sign of who controls it. Whats in it reflect the policies 17. Even Paper was said to be to flimsy for long time storage when it was intro.. munks 18.

Saving information takes energy and time Outsourcing of storage don’t help

Media object got memory memory is important, how we construct memory’s

free services that dont care about you information no ready made sultion,, techutopians

y2k, fantasy scenarios. Storage media of desire

platforms startup culture – VC culture personal experice of virtual life the creation of fake memorys by technology .. boliardi and the irak war

The comufication of memory, the push for constat documentartoin as a trend-fashion.life style

To level issuse 1– social media-post not to post, that is the questions Today we use social media platforms to store,make and retrieve your memory’s, what happens when they fail, what happens to your memory? Shoebox vs facebook maniplutation of memory’s stalin to facebook

language as technology

who is really the enemey? Eygenvy mozorow

failed image icon.. 404. failure to connection old websites today.

Platformization Filter bubble Anne Helmond Kristiffer Gansing Jon Rafman

Failtur of big data is that its big Archive Fever, Google – facebook-- archive fever ownership control of own information

2. Long trem issus with storage lostions

What to save, what not to save do we need to save everything 50-100 year time-- planning for the future agnosti

Techouptopics get warped up in the teach and fail to see things in nyanser.. tech is a tool for a soultion, not the solution

By collecting a lot as individual, we undervalue what we got.. Smaller collection, more value = better storage or focus then issue of future stabel nature of what to keep or not..

1. Keep less, Store longer 2. Secure Formats. Where to store

What to keep, what not to keep Pressure from cooperation to stor as much as possible to comodify it.. We need more, to sniff, scrape, sell..

Archive fever arrived from comodificaton and not geniul desire

First, figure out what to keep, keep what you need Den issue of longer preservation

???-Exstion-memory-platform/formats-failure

The dream of saving everything and other failed utopias

Areas of Research

• Commodification of Memory
• The longevity of digital storage
• What to keep, what not to keep
• something more.....dfksklfakl

Proposal

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==My Hard-Drive Died 29.10.2015== <OLD I am making a speaker installation of old hard-drives that will transmit readings of individual’s experience on the topic of data loss as a result of hard-drives crashing. The stories are gathered from twitter posts that are download and turned into synthesized voices that are then transmitted to be played via dead hard-drives. ““We have the capacity to store everything for possible recall, but these same extended memory technologies are capable of generating oblivion in other ways—not least of which is through the technology.” (Gabrys, 2007, p120-123 )“

Introduction

We live in a world where we are storing more and more information electronically. we take photos all day long with our smart phones, we write emails and post images and stories on social media. With the mass of production of information, we are hitting the problems of storing all of this data over a longer period of time. Your data maybe safe for tomorrow, but what about a 50 or 100 years from now? And is it really that important? “Digital is the paradigm for content and quantity of information; analogue is the paradigm for usability and interfacing. (Ludovico,2013,p151)“ Printed books can last hundreds of years if they are not exposed to fire, water, war and stupidity of man, but a digital text can disappear and be left unaccessible in the future on the reasons like, unsupported file formats, dead storage media or defunct “cloud” services. There is always going to be lose of memory, but with digital is seems to go a lot quicker. Cloud services are often put forward as a solution for your storage problems, but they can never guaranty that they still be in business in 100 years time and by calling this a metaphor makes it even harder for most people to understand what “the cloud” really is. What do we get by outsourcing your memory to corporations? “Cloud storage is so popular, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the old-fashioned back-up drive is simply a museum piece. But if you ask users of the most popular, consumer-focused cloud storage services, you’ll get an earful. Security worries, problems synching, missing folders, and update errors, are the kinds of issues consumers reported to FixYa, a popular Q&A site.” (Snyder, Online, cio.com)“

Recent observations

“In 1961, the British science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke suggested that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” (Feigelfeld, 2015, Online)“ Technology is becoming more distant from the peoples understanding of it, the first to start using a technology know more about how it works than those who become acquainted later. Most computer and computer storage technology’s are mysterious. Its hidden away in black boxes, warning labels and security screws. You are left to what the manufacture say on how long it will last, but a manufacture will never promise. Marketing often use words like “life-time guaranty” for storage technology. Hard-Drives, for example, have a average five year life span, but when did you hear that in their marketing blurbs? (I don’t get this sentence) The technology industry have always been “fetishizing the notion of optimization of computer storage”. “I am afraid that future theorists and historians of computer media will be left with not much more than the equivalents of the newspaper reports and film programs from cinema first decade. They will find that analytical texts from our area recognize the significance of computers take over of culture, yet , by and large, contains speculations about the future rather then a record and theory of the present. (Manovich,2001, p6-7)“

Possible outcome

The outcome will exist in the form of a xxxxxxx SOMETHING The outcome will exist in the form of a small six cm tall plinth located on a table with one or three drives. The drives will be mounted on the top of the small plinth. I want the people to get close to the drives to hear whats going on. You will only be able to hear noise from a far, but to hear whats being told, you need to get close to the drives. By letting the audience look at the drive close, it may help people better understand what the technology works. It can also be mounted in the wall as a series of drives, as inspiration can look at “HD_O_2560

Relation to previous practice

““It must be understood that as long as art stand aside from the problems of life it will only interest a very few people.” (Munari,1966, p25) “ During my Bachelor I made a project called “The Library of Babe” based on the short story by the same name by the author Jorge Luis Borges. This project was made on the topic of “bit-rot” in text documents. The project got my really interesting in the long term storage of information and how we as society deal with it. A tread that go true my previous projects are always small or bigger ideas or knowledge that is outside peoples interest and understanding and something I find thrilled an interest to try to communicate. “"The design artefacts you leave behind will be your ultimate legacy" (Beirut,2006, p6)“

Practical steps


 The initial state of the project I need to refined the way I solder the hard-drives together as my first test works, but I had some problems of keeping the connection solid. For the project I need also to still keep working on collecting tweets from people, this is done on my own twitter account “My Hard-Drive Died” where I log into once I week, search for the term “My Hard-Drive Died” and retweets and by 23 September 2015 I have over 640 tweets. An automated way of doing have been in the proses, but here is some general difficulties using the twitter API. Twitter has made it much harder now then it used to be. 


Bibliography

Gabrys, Jennifer (2007) DIGITAL RUBBISH a natural history of electronics, Paperback , United States of America ,The University of Michigan Press Ludovico, Alessandro (2013) Post Digital Print, Onomatopee Munari, Bruno, Design as Art (1966) England, Penguin Feigelfeld, Paul (2015) Media Archaeology Out of Nature: An Interview with Jussi Parikka, e-flux.com [Online] Available: http://www.e-flux.com/journal/media-archaeology-out-of-nature-an-interview-with-jussi-parikka/ (Accessed:28.05.2015) Beirut, Michael, Drenttel, William, William, Steven (2006) Look Closer Five, Critical Writings on Graphic Design, New York, Allworth Press Manovich, Lev, (2001) The Language of New Media, United States of America, The MIT Press

My Hard-Drive Died 09.10.2015

Proposal

I am making a speaker installation of old hard-drives that will transmit peoples experience on the topic of data loss after their hard-drives dies. The stories are gathered from twitter posts that is download and begin turned into synthesized voice that is then transmitted to dead hard-drives. ““We have the capacity to store everything for possible recall, but these same extended memory technologies are capable of generating oblivion in other ways—not least of which is through the technology.” (Gabrys, 2007, p120-123 )“

Introduction

We live in a world where we are storing more and more information electronically, we take photos all day long with our smart phones, we write emails and post images and stories on social media. But with the mass of production of information, we are hitting the problems of storing all of this over a longer period of time. Your data maybe safe for tomorrow, but what about a 50 or 100 years from now? And is it really that important? “Digital is the paradigm for content and quantity of information; analogue is the paradigm for usability and interfacing. (Ludovico,2013,p151)“ Printed books can last hundreds of years if they are not exposed to fire, water, war and stupidity of man, but a digital text can disappear and be left unaccessible in the future on the reasons like, unsupported file formats, dead storage media or defunct “cloud” services. There is always going to be lose of memory, but with digital is seems to go a lot quicker. Cloud services are often put forward as a solution for your storage problems, but they can never guaranty that they still be in business in 100 years time, The is a whole issue that by calling the “cloude” the companies makes it even hard for people to really know what the cloud is. What do we get by outsourcing your memory to corporations? “Cloud storage is so popular, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the old-fashioned back-up drive is simply a museum piece. But if you ask users of the most popular, consumer-focused cloud storage services, you’ll get an earful. Security worries, problems synching, missing folders, and update errors, are the kinds of issues consumers reported to FixYa, a popular Q&A site.” (Snyder, Online, cio.com)“

Recent observations

“In 1961, the British science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke suggested that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” (Feigelfeld, 2015, Online)“ Technology is getting more and more distance from peoples understanding of it, the first to start using a technology knows more about how it works then people how start using it later. Most computer and computer storage technology’s are mysterious for people. Its hidden away in black boxes, warning labels and security screws. You are left to what the manufacture say on how long it will last, but a manufacture will never promise what they say. Marketing often use words like “life-time guaranty for storage technology. Hard-Drives for example got a avarage five year life span, but when did you hear that in their marketing blurbs? The technology industry have always been “fetishizing the notion of optimization of computer storage”. “I am afraid that future theorists and historians of computer media will be left with not much more than the equivalents of the newspaper reports and film programs from cinema first decade. They will find that analytical texts from our area recognize the significance of computers take over of culture, yet , by and large, contains speculations about the future rather then a record and theory of the present. (Manovich,2001, p6-7)“

Possible outcome

The outcome will exist in the form of a small six cm tall plinth located on a table with one or three drives. The drives will be mounted on the top of the small plinth. I want the people to get close to the drives to hear whats going on, you will only be able to hear noise from a fare, but to hear whats being told, you need to get close to the drives. By letting the audience look at the drive close, it may help people better understand what the technology works. It can also be mounted in the wall as a series of drives, as inspiration can look at “HD_O_2560

24-channel algorithmic controlled sound system” by Daniel Gyolcs

Relation to previous practice

““It must be understood that as long as art stand aside from the problems of life it will only interest a very few people.” (Munari,1966, p25) “ During my Bachelor I made a project called “The Library of Babe” based on the short story by the same name by the author Jorge Luis Borges. This project was made on the topic of “bit-rot” in text documents. The project got my really interesting in the long term storage of information and how we as society deal with it. A tread that go true my previous projects are always small or bigger ideas or knowledge that is outside peoples interest and understanding and something I find thrilled an interest to try to communicate. “"The design artefacts you leave behind will be your ultimate legacy" (Beirut,2006, p6)“

Practical steps

The initial state of the project I need to refined the way I solder the hard-drives together as my first test works, but I had some problems of keeping the connection solid. For the project I need also to still keep working on collecting tweets from people, this is done on my own twitter account “My Hard-Drive Died” where I log into once I week, search for the term “My Hard-Drive Died” and retweets and by 23 September 2015 I have over 640 tweets. An automated way of doing have been in the proses, but here is some general difficulties using the twitter API. Twitter has made it much harder now then it used to be.

Bibliography

Gabrys, Jennifer (2007) DIGITAL RUBBISH a natural history of electronics, Paperback , United States of America ,The University of Michigan Press

Ludovico, Alessandro (2013) Post Digital Print, Onomatopee

Munari, Bruno, Design as Art (1966) England, Penguin

Feigelfeld, Paul (2015) Media Archaeology Out of Nature: An Interview with Jussi Parikka, e-flux.com [Online] Available: http://www.e-flux.com/journal/media-archaeology-out-of-nature-an-interview-with-jussi-parikka/ (Accessed:28.05.2015)

Beirut, Michael, Drenttel, William, William, Steven (2006) Look Closer Five, Critical Writings on Graphic Design, New York, Allworth Press

Manovich, Lev, (2001) The Language of New Media, United States of America, The MIT Press

My Hard-Drive Died 23.09.2015

Proposal

I am making a speaker installation of old hard-drives that will tell peoples experience on the topic of data loss after their hard-drives dies. The experience are gathered from twitter posts that is download and begin transmitted to dead hard-drives with a computer synthesized voice. Data is not lost because it is not archived, however; it is lost because it is archived, because it is digitized and entered into the seemingly endless electronic stores that are also increasingly volatile sites of memory. Economies of erasure, as much as economies of memory, emerge with the electronic archive. We have the capacity to store everything for possible recall, but these same extended memory technologies are capable of generating oblivion in other ways—not least of which is through the technology. (Gabrys, 2007 page 120-123 )

Introduction

We live in a world where we are storing more and more information electronically, we take photos all day long with our smart phones, we write emails and write texts on social media. But with the mass of production of information, we are hitting the problems of storing all of this over a longer period of time. Your data maybe safe for tomorrow, but what about a 100 years from now? Digital is the paradigm for content and quantity of information; analogue is the paradigm for usability and interfacing. (Ludovico,2013,p151) Printed books can last hundreds of years, but a digital text can disappear and be left unaccessible in the future on the reasons like, unsupported file formats, dead storage media or defunct “cloud” services. There is always going to be lose of memory, books can get burned, floods. But compared to books, its not a IF, but when the digital information is going to disspare. Cloud services are often put forward as a solution for your storage problems, but they can never guaranty that they still be in business in 100 years time. “Cloud storage is so popular, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the old-fashioned back-up drive is simply a museum piece. But if you ask users of the most popular, consumer-focused cloud storage services, you’ll get an earful. Security worries, problems synching, missing folders, and update errors, are the kinds of issues consumers reported to FixYa, a popular Q&A site.” (Snyder, Online, cio.com)

Recent observations

In 1961, the British science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke suggested that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” (Feigelfeld, 2015, Online) Technology is getting more and more distance from peoples understanding of it, the first to start using a technology knows more about how it works then people how start using it later. Most computer and computer storage technology’s are mysterious for people. Its hidden away in black boxes. You are left to what the manufacture say on how long it will last, but a manufacture will never promise what they say. Marketing often use words like “life-time guaranty for storage technology. Hard-Drives for example got a five year life span, but when did you hear that in their marketing blurbs? The technology industry have always been fetishizing optimization. Already in 1952, Ross Ashby introduced his Homeostat Machine in the Macy conferences on cybernetics, and today we are still in the midst of producing—and sometimes even fetishizing—cultural techniques of optimization. (Feigelfeld,2015, Online) Also issues of “planned obsolescence” is always lurking in the background of this technologies, how much is planned and how much is just laws of nature?

(still developing the idea) In physics one go the law of Thermodynamics, and it got some interesting ideas in the notion of memory or in its case energy, If one looks at memory and information as energy. The storage of information exists in energy if say a printed book or magnetics plats in spinning hard-drives. If one looks at the 2nd law of thermodynamics “The entropy (energy) of an isolated system not in equilibrium will tend to increase over time, approaching a maximum value at equilibrium.” (http://physicsforidiots.com/physics/thermodynamics/) ( another is the 3th law of thermodynamics that states if you follow my notion that there will be “loss of energy” but the share laws of nature. “As temperature approaches absolute zero, the entropy (energy) of a system approaches a constant minimum. (http://physicsforidiots.com/physics/thermodynamics/)

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Possible outcome

The visual appearance of it can take the form of a box on a table with all of its sides coved with hard-drive drives, mimicking the notions of the “black box” and external hard-drive. Most magnetic drives are made around the same configuration inside of them, with often small differences between the manufactures of the layout and colour sades, that maybe can be used in the sense of a pattern. It can also be mounted in the wall as a series of drives, as inspiration can look at “HD_O_2560 24-channel algorithmic controlled sound system” by Daniel Gyolcs

I want the people to get close to the drives to hear whats going on, you will only be able to hear noise from a fare, but to hear whats being told, you need to get close to the drives.

Relation to previous practice

“It must be understood that as long as art stand aside from the problems of life it will only interest a very few people.” (Munari,1966, p25) During my BA I made a project called “The Library of Babe” based on the short story by the same name by the author Jorge Luis Borges. This project was made on the topic of “bit-rot” in text documents. The project got my really interesting in the long term storage of information and how we as society deal with it.

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Practical steps

The initial state of the project I need to refined the way I solder the hard-drives together as my first test did work, but I had some problems of keeping the connection solid. For the project I need to still keep working on collecting tweets from people, this is done on my own twitter account “My Hard-Drive Died” where I log into once I week, search for the term and retweets and by 23 September 2015 I have over 640 tweets, I can also automate this process, but there is some general difficulties using the twitter API. Twitter has made it much harder now then it used to be. I need to research and figure out how the tweets can be read and spoken true a text to voice program out of the different hard-drives. They can be presented 1. They all speak at the same time, this can maybe be an interesting effect 2. They all speak on different times, possible map drives to different “sets of text or that if I am using three drives that etch can be one for different moods of the tweet.. (sad, comically, indifferent) The twitter accounts content will be downloaded as a CSV file, as this is still possible and allowed to download your own twitter account that you own true the Twitter menu systems. What the code language that will be used, I think it maybe will be Python code, running from a Raspberry Pi.

Bibliography

Gabrys, Jennifer (2007) DIGITAL RUBBISH a natural history of electronics, Paperback , United States of America ,The University of Michigan Press

Ludovico, Alessandro (2013) Post Digital Print, Onomatopee

Munari, Bruno, Design as Art (1966) England, Penguin

Feigelfeld, Paul (2015) Media Archaeology Out of Nature: An Interview with Jussi Parikka, e-flux.com [Online] Available: http://www.e-flux.com/journal/media-archaeology-out-of-nature-an-interview-with-jussi-parikka/ (Accessed:28.05.2015)

Beirut, Michael, Drenttel, William, William, Steven (2006) Look Closer Five, Critical Writings on Graphic Design, New York, Allworth Press

Manovich, Lev, (2001) The Language of New Media, United States of America, The MIT Press

My Hard-Drive Died 02.09.2015

Proposal

I am making a speaker installation of old hard-drives that will communicate peoples experience on the topic of data loss by gathering story’s from twitter. Data is not lost because it is not archived, however; it is lost because it is archived, because it is digitized and entered into the seemingly endless electronic stores that are also increasingly volatile sites of memory. Economies of erasure, as much as economies of memory, emerge with the electronic archive. We have the capacity to store everything for possible recall, but these same extended memory technologies are capable of generating oblivion in other ways—not least of which is through the technology. (Gabrys, 2007 page 120-123 )

Introduction

We live in a world where we are storing more and more information electronically, we take photos all day long with our smart phones, we write emails and write texts on social media. But with the mass of production of information, we are hitting the problems of storing all of this over a long period of time. Printed books can last hundreds of years, but a digital text can disappear and be left unaccessible in the future on the reasons like, unsupported file formats, dead storage media or defunct “cloud” services. Cloud services are often put forward as a solution for your own personal storage problems, but they can never guaranty that they still be in business in 100 years time.

“Cloud storage is so popular, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the old-fashioned back-up drive is simply a museum piece. But if you ask users of the most popular, consumer-focused cloud storage services, you’ll get an earful. Security worries, problems synching, missing folders, and update errors, are the kinds of issues consumers reported to FixYa, a popular Q&A site.” (Snyder, Online, cio.com)

Recent observations

In 1961, the British science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke suggested that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Sure, but perhaps we could now rephrase that to say that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from nature,” not merely because it is “inspired” by natural processes, but also because it disappears into its surroundings. (Feigelfeld, 2015, Online)

Technology is getting more and more distance from peoples understanding of it, the first to start using a technology knows more about how it works then people how start using it later. Most computer and computer storage technology’s are mysterious for people. Its hidden away in black boxes. You are left to what the manufacture say on how long it will last, but a manufacture will never promise what they say. Marketing often use words like “life-time guaranty for storage technology. Hard-Drives for example got a five year life span, but when did you hear that in their marketing blurbs? The technology industry have always been fetishizing optimization. Already in 1952, Ross Ashby introduced his Homeostat Machine in the Macy conferences on cybernetics, and today we are still in the midst of producing—and sometimes even fetishizing—cultural techniques of optimization. (Feigelfeld,2015, Online)

Possible outcome

The visual appearance of it can take the form of a box on a table with all of its sides coved with hard-drive drives, mimicking the notions of the “black box” and external hard-drive. Most magnetic drives are made around the same configuration inside of them, with often small differences between the manufactures of the layout and colours, that maybe can be used in the sense of a pattern.

I also have been thinking on keep it small to 1 to 3 drives mounted in a way that mimics a sales stand like you find in Mediamart or other electronic stores.

Relation to previous practice

I have never really done a project using a lot of electronics and code, I see this as a project to expand on my own knowledge in the field and the making of physical objects.

Practical steps

The initial state of the project I need to refined the way I solder the hard-drives together as my first test did work, but I had some problems of keeping the connection solid. For the project I need to still keep working on collecting tweets from people, this is done on my own twitter account “My Hard-Drive Died” where I log into once I week, search for the term and retweets and by 22 July 2015 I have over 200 tweets, I can also automate this process, but there is some general difficulties using the twitter API. Twitter has made it much harder now then it used to be.

I need to research and figure out how the tweets can be read and spoken true a text to voice program out of the different hard-drives. They can be presented 1. They all speak at the same time, this can maybe be an interesting effect 2. They all speak on different times, possible map drives to different “sets of text or that if I am using three drives that etch can be one for different moods of the tweet.. (sad, comically, indifferent) The twitter accounts content will be downloaded as a CSV file, as this is still possible and allowed to download your own twitter account that you own true the Twitter menu systems. What the code language that will be used, I think it maybe will be Python code, running from a Raspberry Pi.

My Hard-Drive Died (working tittle)

Proposal

I am making a speaker installation of old hard-drives that will communicate peoples experience on the topic of data loss by gathering story’s from twitter.

Introduction

We live in a world where we make and store more and more information electronically, we take photos all day long with our smart phones, we write emails and write texts.... But with this mass of production of information, we are hitting the problems of storing all of this securely over a long period of time. Printed photos last for decades if stored secularly, but a digital photo is way more unstable. Hard-drives last only around 5 years, flash memory will not keep its information over a long periods with no use, Cloud services can never guaranty that they still be in business in a 100 years. But what happens when this devices and services that we put so much trust in fails. I want to inform people that we need to be worried about where and how we store our information, that we are the only ones that can really take care of it. "Yet digital culture brings with it a great paradox whereby it contributes as much to amnesia and collective forgetting as to remembering. "What of, ask Andreas Huyussen, to boom in memory were inevitably accompanied by a boom in forgetting?" Page 70

Recent observations

Technology is getting more and more distance from everyday people. Its hidden away in black boxes where only the experts are allowed access, its cuttings people access by hiding it behind hyper-bull and security screws self-destructing glues. A manufacture of drives can never promise more then a five year lifespan, but that will never be communicated, instead hyper bull like “life-time” guaranty and “shock resilient” are used. Its not something new, all true history of storage technology this words have been used.

Possible outcome

The visual appearance of it can take the form of a box on a table with all of its sides coved with hard-drive drives, mimicking the notions of a “black box” Even that most drives are made around the same configuration, there is always some difference in how the look on the visual side, there is possible to work with that as making some drives stand out, or pattern can be made.

Relation to previous practice

I have never really done a project related to electronics and code, I see this as a project to expand on my own knowledge in the field.

Practical steps

The initial state of the project I need to refined the way I solder the hard-drives together as my prototype did work, but I had some problems of keeping the connection solid and stable. For the project I need to still keep working on collecting tweets from people, this is done by my own twitter account “My Hard-Drive Died” where I log into once I week, search for the term and retweets and by 22 July 2015 I have over 200 tweets, I can also automate this process, but there is some general difficulties using the twitter API. Twitter has made it much harder now then just for over a year ago to make a bot for retweets. I need to research and figure out how the tweets can be read and spoken true a text to voice program out of the different hard-drives. 1. They all speak the same time, this can maybe be an interesting effect 2. They all speak on different times, possible map drives to different “setts of text” The twitter accounts content will be downloaded as a CSV file, as this is still possible and allowed to download your own twitter account that you own true the Twitter menu systems. What the code language that will be used, I think it maybe will be Python code, running from a Raspberry Pi.

17.05.2015

Dead Media Wall

• 1) There is no permanent storage device yet made, but company’s always promises eternal, permanent, life time guaranty for storage of your digital information. Been looking into people own experience when this lies break their promises with their user.
• 2) Collecting peoples own experience of data-loss on-line on twitter .
• 3) A wall that show ads of storage devices on different types of screens together with re purpose storage devices as speakers.. (Speakers of old Hard-Drives)

Found Media Log

• 1) All around us there is old disc, drives, cds, tapes ++ with your collective memory's, but what happens when they get stock on them. Do we remember whats on them? Do we remember the formats?
• 2) Make an online collection of peoples old storage media, ask people to send in their objects with the stories around them, where they are from, what they think is on them and also show what's on them if I can get access to them (kryoflux, VHS to Mac adapters +)
• 3) A online website, printed book/magazine with the collection, or both.. as paper is fare better storage medium them digital for long-term preservation.

The Printed Cybernetic Library

• 1) Computers come and go, that's the nature of technological development, but old machines form the 70s. 80S and even 90s are long since been driven to the dump. A lot like the Acorn Computer, Atari, Osborne and more are slowly dissipating, but the irony is that the computer manuals still exist, the printed word outlast the electronics..
• 2) Collect old manuals, books for computer system
• 3) Make a box, “storage device” or shelf (maybe of old computer cabinets) on where to show them and display them..

The Unlimited Drive

• 1) There is no permanent storage device yet made, but company’s always promises eternal, permanent, life time guaranty for storage of your digital information.
• 2) Collect information and knowledge around current and dead storage devices.
• 3) One or a collection of “fantastic” storage devices, the USB stick hat got 1000000000tb, but will never store it, but content delete the “old” information on them. (fake usb sticks from China)

The Unlimited Cloud

Same as The Unlimited Drive, but only as a “cloud” storage

10.05.2015

1) what have been your current areas of research?

• “Personal” Digital Archive [1]
• Over-promises of Cloud Services
• Video Games – Digital legacy / Specific Games...
• Creations of digital memory’s and social media
• Where designers role are and how not to go total mad in [Technocultures, +++
• The renaissance of paper printing in the digital society
• The role library have now?

Bruce willis itunes

2) how do you intend to build on them?

• Look at people gut feelings about data loss by looking at social media
• What language does cloud services use when they market themselves?
• How does archive store materials, physical, visit places?
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3) formulate an (im)possible project (or projects) that address 1) and 2)

• A screen wall that show text from the Internet (social media) with texts from the internet about loss of personal data and the text is being transmitter true old dead hard-drive as audio.
• An online magazine/site +++ where I ask people to send in their old dead media objects that they cant access no more. They send in there objects with a description on where, why and what they think is on there. The object is photograph, and it get put online (if I can get the content of I show that as well) as a collection.
• Show a collection of “lets plays” video game footage , video cube where you are in the games. Video walls (screens of different sizes and type)
• Fake ads for cloud services put in the stress twisting the promises of the cloud (ad busting)
• Fake websites for cloud services put in the stress twisting the promises of the cloud (ad busting)
• Use the marketing for cloud services in a new way, to mock them.
• Never saving “storage solution” that never saves the content but just deletes it
• Mock online storage solution where content are being mined for data and being sold on a data “stock-market” (not real)
• Hybrid laser/ink printer where you can print out content from > for offline storage
• Video-photo-text about the library, record the living and the dead archives