Apocalypse as metaphor SI22 (Wordhole)

The word apocalypse is derived from a Greek verb, and is translated to "uncovering". In other words it seems that an apocalypse suggest a societal change, after the apocalypse a new paradigm is uncovered.

An apocalypse is therefore intrinsically intertwined with temporality: it is the result of a past (an event or a multiplicity of events/notions that somehow propagates a mode to its breaking point), it happens in a present (a moment of complete structurelessness marking a before and after), and at last it suggest a drastically different future.

What I imagine the SI22 would uncover is the remains of our very brief encounter with Radio worm. Abruptly in September we were introduced to this platform in order to explore protocols for active archives, and just as abruptly we are now coming to the end of this process. Through this process we have been producing, processing and consuming the contents of the worm Archive. Therefore it makes sense to highlight all these aspects of communal archiving.

Now we are facing the apocalypse and this our chance to leave seeds for the future. These seeds may be protocols along with informational artifacts that allow whoever may encounter them to revive the archive, not necessarily the specific data, but rather the semantics of its operational mode. A space where future "community members" can reflect and interact with the archive, breathing life to it. Thus confronting the idea that archives is a place where files go to die.