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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. | 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.There vere several reasons why the reconstruction team decided not to do so. | 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. | |||
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. | |||
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 | |||
Rewriting the code 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.<ref>Check out the video interview with Karl Heinz Jaron and Joachim Blank on without addresses: https://quellen.netzkunst.berlin/without_addresses/variant/4/documentation/videos/Interviewwithoutaddresses.mp4</ref> To fullfill this fundamental artistic intention the reconstruction team had to come up with reconstruction strategy that would preserve a static version of the work but that would nevertheless mediate the fuctionality and interactivity of the variant 1. | |||
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