[NetBehaviour] A quiet desert failure | A monumental 50 years long algorithmic performance about internet and nothing

[Gretta Louw]

Brilliant, love it - and it’s the Tumblr is so beautiful, too!
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> On 02 Nov 2015, at 09:48, Guido Segni <guido.segni at gmail.com> wrote:
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> TRAVERSING THE DESERT
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> A quiet desert failure is an ongoing algorithmic performance by Guido Segni started in 2013 and publicly released in 2015 in the context of The Wrong (again) -  New Digital Art Biennale.
> 
> In its own way, it’s a  monumental piece about internet, digital contents, emptiness, time, storage, memory, oblivion and - ultimately - failure.
> 
> Segni programmed an Internet bot to traverse the datascape of Google Maps in order to fill a Tumblr blog and its datacenters with a remapped representation of the whole Sahara Desert, one post a time, every 30 minutes.
> 
> The whole performance will approximately take 50 years to be completed, and it consists in the indexing process of about one million pieces of sandy desert.
> It is still not clear if the audience, the Google’s servers, the tumblr archive or the Internet itself will last enough to see the end.
> 
> So, be patient, 
> don’t hurry.
> The desert is coming.
> 
> http://desert.fail/ure <http://desert.fail/ure>
> http://quietdesertfailure.tumblr.com <http://quietdesertfailure.tumblr.com/>
> 
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> THE WRONG
> ==========
> 
> A quiet desert failure is also part of  “(In)exactitude in science” an online/offline pavillion curated by Kamilia Kard and Filippo Lorenzin for The Wrong (again) -  New Digital Art Biennale 
> 
> (In)exactitude in science
> curated by Kamilia Kard and Filippo Lorenzin
> 
> Enrico Boccioletti, Emilie Brout e Maxime Marion, Marco Cadioli, Alka Cappellazzo, Mighty KongBot (Domenico Barra e Luigi Console), Marco Mendeni, Jacques Perconte, Antoine Schmitt, Guido Segni, Natalia Trejbalova, Fabien Zocco.
> 
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> INFO & CREDITS
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> 
> Fail/URL
> http://desert.fail/ure <http://desert.fail/ure>
> http://desert.fail/url <http://desert.fail/url>
> 
> The tumblr archival performance
> http://quietdesertfailure.tumblr.com <http://quietdesertfailure.tumblr.com/>
> 
> Music
> Fabio Angeli, Lorenzo Del Grande
> 
> The Wrong Pavillion
> http://inexactitudeinscience.com <http://inexactitudeinscience.com/>
> 
> Special thanks to
> Florian Kuhlmann & Digital3mpire
> 
> 
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> 
> 
> -- 
> Guido Segni
> Imaginary artist
> 
> www.guidosegni.com <http://www.guidosegni.com/>
> www.lesliensinvisibles.org <http://www.lesliensinvisibles.org/>
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