Futureproof @ TechnoSkeptic
![[gfx/702dscn0003.jpg]](w2.php?pic=702dscn0003.jpg&txt=The Center for Curatorial Studies is Known by students as %22The Bunker%22) |
![[gfx/702dscn0593.jpg]](w2.php?pic=702dscn0593.jpg&txt=See%3F we sometimes take arty-type photographs!) |
![[gfx/801dscn0001.jpg]](w2.php?pic=801dscn0001.jpg&txt=Amaya shows Lisa the stock of computers she's recovered.) |
![[gfx/801dscn0564.jpg]](w2.php?pic=801dscn0564.jpg&txt=Yet more computers collected from local colleges in the runup to the show.) |
![[gfx/801dscn0565.jpg]](w2.php?pic=801dscn0565.jpg&txt=We get to work straight away. Untangling the cables is Lisa's job one.) |
![[gfx/801dscn0566.jpg]](w2.php?pic=801dscn0566.jpg&txt=Meanwhile James triages the machines into %22beyond help%22 and %22possible to fix%22.) |
![[gfx/801dscn0568.jpg]](w2.php?pic=801dscn0568.jpg&txt=Lisa arranges the %22deconstruction line%22.) |
![[gfx/801dscn0569.jpg]](w2.php?pic=801dscn0569.jpg&txt=Lisa explains the disassembly process to Albert and Chris.) |
![[gfx/801dscn0575.jpg]](w2.php?pic=801dscn0575.jpg&txt=Chris is recruited into the disassembly line. Thanks, Chris!) |
![[gfx/801dscn0577.jpg]](w2.php?pic=801dscn0577.jpg&txt=The state of play towards the end of day one.) |
![[gfx/801dscn0578.jpg]](w2.php?pic=801dscn0578.jpg&txt=James determining that this IBM 386 is worth testing.) |
![[gfx/801dscn0579.jpg]](w2.php?pic=801dscn0579.jpg&txt=James searching for spare parts in the debris-field) |
![[gfx/801dscn0584.jpg]](w2.php?pic=801dscn0584.jpg&txt=Chris and Lisa survey the extent of the task yet to do... substantial!) |
![[gfx/801dscn0597.jpg]](w2.php?pic=801dscn0597.jpg&txt=Day two: Albert and Chris put up the %22trash data%22 derived from printer errors.) |
![[gfx/801dscn0598.jpg]](w2.php?pic=801dscn0598.jpg&txt=The images were expanded and layered two or three per sheet, but were otherwise un-doctored.) |
![[gfx/801dscn0600.jpg]](w2.php?pic=801dscn0600.jpg&txt=James fixed 8 CPUs: a significant %22computery%22 number, that works well visually!) |
![[gfx/801dscn0601.jpg]](w2.php?pic=801dscn0601.jpg&txt=Lisa begins to arrange the larger trash elements, while James gets the machines to boot.) |
![[gfx/801dscn0602.jpg]](w2.php?pic=801dscn0602.jpg&txt=Assessing the quantity and arrangement of the large trash elements.) |
![[gfx/801dscn0604.jpg]](w2.php?pic=801dscn0604.jpg&txt=Satisfied with the %22deliberately artless%22 stacking system, we continue.) |
![[gfx/801dscn0606.jpg]](w2.php?pic=801dscn0606.jpg&txt=Lisa has very definite ideas about how the stacking process should be undertaken.) |
![[gfx/802dscn0008.jpg]](w2.php?pic=802dscn0008.jpg&txt=Ahhh! Now the first machines are able to show a test pattern: animated numerals 1-6.) |
![[gfx/802dscn0011.jpg]](w2.php?pic=802dscn0011.jpg&txt=Making the installation attracted many onlookers who peered through the glass at us.) |
![[gfx/802dscn0014.jpg]](w2.php?pic=802dscn0014.jpg&txt=Now, by the end of day three, most of the smaller, more ordered elements are in place.) |
![[gfx/802dscn0015.jpg]](w2.php?pic=802dscn0015.jpg&txt=Next, we used this trolley as a dolly to pan our webcam across the installation.) |
![[gfx/802dscn0580.jpg]](w2.php?pic=802dscn0580.jpg&txt=By panning with the trolley, all of the motion in the animations was horizontal.) |
![[gfx/802dscn0589.jpg]](w2.php?pic=802dscn0589.jpg&txt=The sideways motion of the animations link the trash elements to the patterns of trash data.) |
![[gfx/802dscn0590.jpg]](w2.php?pic=802dscn0590.jpg&txt=Finished! James and Amaya pose, tourist-like, in front of the piece.) |
![[gfx/802dscn0591.jpg]](w2.php?pic=802dscn0591.jpg&txt=Lisa and Chris adopt similar, touristic poses.) |
![[gfx/dscn0619.jpg]](w2.php?pic=dscn0619.jpg&txt=The opening afternoon is very well attended - around 200 people came along.) |
![[gfx/dscn0620.jpg]](w2.php?pic=dscn0620.jpg&txt=The piece is right in the entrance to the exhibition.) |
![[gfx/dscn0623.jpg]](w2.php?pic=dscn0623.jpg&txt=This is Jack. He reckons the little pieces are like tiny buildings.) |
![[gfx/dscn0626.jpg]](w2.php?pic=dscn0626.jpg&txt=Jack's dad is very patient - Jack wanted to spend all day examining the bits.) |
![[gfx/dscn0628.jpg]](w2.php?pic=dscn0628.jpg&txt=Hey, but what about this bit%3F What does that do %3F) |
![[gfx/dscn0629.jpg]](w2.php?pic=dscn0629.jpg&txt=The images on the screens are all composed of animated letters and numbers that form the pictures.) |
![[gfx/dscn0630.jpg]](w2.php?pic=dscn0630.jpg&txt=The piece is incredibly popular with younger visitors who look at it very closely.) |
![[gfx/dscn0631a.jpg]](w2.php?pic=dscn0631a.jpg&txt=Everyone seems eager to discuss the piece - appropriate in a curatorial studies school, I guess!) |
![[gfx/dscn0632.jpg]](w2.php?pic=dscn0632.jpg&txt=Lisa explains the %22not too ordered, not too chaotic%22 arrangement process.) |
![[gfx/dscn0633.jpg]](w2.php?pic=dscn0633.jpg&txt=You just can keep them away! Kids love shiny things that are normally hidden!) |
![[gfx/dscn0635.jpg]](w2.php?pic=dscn0635.jpg&txt=The custodians are a little concerned that the straight front edge might get disarranged.) |
![[gfx/dscn0636.jpg]](w2.php?pic=dscn0636.jpg&txt=With only a little encouragement everyone puts back the bits where they found them.) |
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