Stefan Tiefengraber (AT)
THU September 4 - MON September 8 2014, 9:30 AM - 7 PM
Herrenstraße, Franz Haarschneider
The opposite of data storage is data destruction. How close these two are to one another is graphically and amusingly illustrated by your unerasable text. The processual chain commences when a festivalgoer sends an SMS to the installation’s cell phone, and it’s forwarded to a computer.
Message Grave
The computer’s job is to automatically format the text and send it to a printer, which prints it out in DIN A6 format and forwards it, in turn, to a file shredder, where it briefly lies atop a pile of its previously shredded predecessors before it too is cut to ribbons.