Bureaucrats, emailconfirmed, Administrators
3,578
edits
Without addresses (variant 4): Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
no edit summary
No edit summary |
|||
| Line 6: | Line 6: | ||
'''Alta Vista and live search''' | '''Alta Vista and live search''' | ||
In ''without addresses'' variant 1 the work used Alta Vista search engine to search online and generate new html pages. The Alta Vista search engine was shut down in 2013 and can no longer be used for the reconstruction. | In ''without addresses'' variant 1 the work used Alta Vista search engine to search online and generate new html pages from the results. The Alta Vista search engine was shut down in 2013 and can no longer be used for the reconstruction. | ||
It would be possible to programme a new script using contemporary search engine and recreate the generative function. | It would be possible to programme a new script using contemporary search engine and recreate the generative function.There vere several reasons why the reconstruction team decided not to do so. | ||
The internet changed so much since the mid 90s, that the aesthetics of the pages would be completely different. Back then the search only returned a few results. Today we could expect exponential amount of results which would not be possible to include all the inte generated pages. So even though recoding the work for a contemporary search engine would preserve best the original conceptual framework it would completely change the feel and the aesthetics of the work. | |||
Recoding the work using one of the contemporary search engines would carry on the preservation problem onto the future, since we can't ensure that the longetivity of this external service. | |||
The artists Karl Heinz Jeron and Joachim Blank always understood the work without addresses to be done after the documenta x. For them the performative, executive function of the work was intented only for limited time. To fullfill this fundamental artistic intention the reconstruction team had to come up with a static reconstruction that would nevertheless mediate the fuctionality, interactivity, and activity of the variant 1. | |||
'''Emulation software''' | '''Emulation software''' | ||
The reconstruction team heavily considered the posibility of using available emulation software, following the reconstruction methodology prefered by Rhizome. | The reconstruction team heavily considered the posibility of using available emulation software, following the reconstruction methodology prefered by Rhizome. Since some of the essential parts of the work such as f.hmtl (the index page) were no longer available, it was necessary to rebuild them. The artist Karl Heinz Jeron was able to reconstruct the index page from the later variants of the work. He documented to code of the reconstruction in [https://quellen.netzkunst.berlin/without_addresses/variant/4/documentation/texts/WA-kommentiertes-Skript-der-Rekonstruktion.pdf a text document]. | ||
'''Simulation and focus on mediation of the work''' | '''Simulation and focus on mediation of the work''' | ||
After a thorough consultation with the two artists, the reconstruciton team decided to design and programme a static simulation of the work as a method of reconstruction. | After a thorough consultation with the two artists, the reconstruciton team decided to design and programme a static simulation of the work as a method of reconstruction. | ||
=== Data inventory assessment=== | === Data inventory assessment=== | ||