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one evening at all then those you have
seen scroll and see projected
in here above they are evidently images
of the desert as it was expected that
the theme was seen and precisely
they are details of the sahara desert
that as we all know is the most
large desert surface of ours
planet
these images are at the base of a
crazy project useless at the same time e
that I started about two years ago
2013 more or less than this period is
that at least in intentions should
complete within 50 years the specific is
then I will explain to you why an archive
digital
the title in Italian is translatable
more or less with a calm failure of the
desert and since I am a person
how to say that he likes to leave from
far when it addresses the topics
if you have the patience to listen to me
I will try to tell what he holds together
these satellite images the desert e
the concept of bankruptcy that perhaps is
the most important aspect
therefore the underlying theme is not so much the
desert in its material form here
it speaks of bits and specifically the theme
of which I will speak today is that of the
collective memory and his
transmission
the advent let’s say about those devices
that we all keep in our pockets or on the
home desk or computers
therefore digital technologies therefore
the advent of storage technologies
combined with the birth of the internet and the
its capillary diffusion have in fact
laid the foundations of a new society
information that the
communication as a founding value
today we can communicate in
real time with every part of the world e
we ended up moving many
activities
let’s say about our daily life
the material inside the sphere
of the network the example that I always do
that of social networks for which
we have moved the size of the
relationship between people inside
of the immaterial and digital sphere but
it’s not just the one I said before
many many aspects of ours
daily and have been swallowed by the
network and from this digital world that
at least in the intentions of who this
cep technology sells it should be
the definitive technology does not have
degradation we say of quality and that
so it should guarantee for some
strange reason eternity and therefore today
we pour into these invisible archives
because we do not know where they are
we pour all our memories
individual be they photographs are
they documents and as we go to
deposit our individual memories
we are doing it as a culture
collective as a society
now someone could take you for the
nudist on duty and for this reason me
I am prepared and report you how to say the
thought of one of the founders of
internet kevin surf vinton
to be precise , inter and surfing friends
warns us why recently
he claimed that digital risks
transform the century we are living
in a new digital middle age
what is meant is meant an era
inaccessible
there is an era inaccessible to the epochs
later this because they were all there
told that digital should
solve all our problems but the
problem is that our society and the
society we say based on the economy
of digital and digital technology
at a speed update it develops innova
its technological products at one
speed such that the documents and the
images saved with more technologies
old ones become more and more
inaccessible for example I do
always it is that of the vhs that by heart
he knows that he has become more and more
difficult to bring back that memory
of family films rather than movies
report them on the new new system
digital and therefore at the base of everything
this is a
a strategy that is the strategy that
He takes up then
the company’s that
of planned obsolescence that there
urges you to always buy the last one
technology model and this speed
development that is dictated by reasons
purely economic in fact it does not work
of equal development with the speed of
preservation of contents that we
we are creating and depositing
inside we say about technologies
digital
this to tell you that the problem more
serious than imagined and
go back to vinton surf and tell you what it is
his suggestion was his
suggestion is you have photos of
family to keep to see i
printed documents we are not
I repeat we are talking about any one
speaking of the father one of the fathers say
of the way we know it now
as if to say that the paper support that
many today are a little denigrating
has its own because the super that of
memory transmission for the future
generations
so I made this clarification back
the work that I did see a
abstract that comes from reflection
similar to those of winton surf between
the other for a curious coincidence lo
same vinton cerf in his
statements uses the term desert
little digital to describe this
situation the project was born as one
performance of which you all know
meaning and is a performance
but not developed by a human body
but from an algorithm that is born as the
work obtained from operations
calculation of an algorithm
the goal of this algorithm is how
I said before as crazy as useless
that is, it exploits the large database of
google of google maps that everyone
you know
recover if the images really
satellite of the desert and goes to
index these images in a
digital archive
often we do not know where
on the network so in fact it is
an operation we say repetitive serial
which consists in storing the desert
of sahara in a digital archive is a
project that you clearly know
everyone will be quite broad and broad and
it takes time as I said before
take 50 years to be
completed we started in 2013
and if, how to say, the forecasts are right
in 2060 3 this archive yes
then complete this operation e
repetitive from the fact algorithm
transforms the algorithm into an entity that
it actually crosses the desert
clearly crosses in its form
the digital material but this is
what it does and someone in general
when I go to tell this project
he tells me yes but why did not you choose the
sea because you have not chosen the cities and
the purely symbolic motivation
the desert as they told others
people here is a symbol of fact
first of all, the desert is a place
inhospitable inhospitable for life
especially for the life of being
human
the desert is the place where prophets and
we need visionaries of all sorts
I lose from time to time looking
of the great revelations the desert e
finally a passage a landscape in
eternal change in which every trace
of the man tends to vanish in the turn of
little time and this brings us to
reflect
on the topic of bankruptcy because someone
a company would say 50 years
monumental titanic
in reality I have little hope that
this crossing can succeed
not for my few skills or for the
calculation power or anything else but
just for what I was saying before
we are too optimistic to look at
technology of which we surround with
today the technology as they say comes
in mind virilio we say always implies
failure the accident when we
we invented as virile would say
when we invented the boat
we invented the shipwreck
when we invented the train
we invented the accident
railway
that’s why in the end the failure is
perhaps the ultimate goal of this
performance I do not care to get in
bottom and 50 years but I’m interested in me
interest
I’m sure it will fail but I find it to be
interesting because it will lead to the nude
what is a problem that there
we will face early or the
preservation of collective memory
because it should fail is a lot
simple anyone who has had to do
with web technology knows very well
that in the arc of even one year i
languages technologies change to one
scary speed and we really think
that in 50 years internet will exist in
form in which we have it today will exist
still what we call google today
map e
the server technology that hosts mine
let’s call it algorithm so it will exist
still the question I do not know so for
conclude I repeat the concept a bit
which is the basic concept of the project
that be patient, do not rush
because the desert is coming
thank you
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