Stefan Tiefengraber (AT)
THU September 4-MON September 8, 2014, 9:30 AM-7 PM
Arkade, Springer Deko
Whether as a result of e-mails, photos, videos, documents, shopping carts or search engine queries, regardless of what forms digital data take—the cloud in the Web with its growing number of incessantly running servers sucks it all up like a sponge that is inviolable and has unlimited capacity. Buttoned up and well cooled, thousands of servers assembled in highsecurity zones worldwide do their job 24/7. But like other material objects, these things as well can be physically destroyed. This installation by Stefan Tiefengraber carries on a long tradition of self-destroying machines, and turns over control of the demolition to installation visitors. In response to each click on the www.ugsd.net website (that happens to be located on precisely this server), two of the six hammers mounted atop the server’s housing deliver a vigorous blow to it—and keep it up until the server is out of commission.