diff --git a/_notes/social-stories.md b/_notes/social-stories.md index c6353fb..9c48103 100644 --- a/_notes/social-stories.md +++ b/_notes/social-stories.md @@ -15,5 +15,5 @@ We are exploring the protocols, languages, and material of the internet as a pla - : Essay from Olia Lialina expanding on the concept of _General Purpose Users_ - - [[Community Memory]] -- World in 24 Hours +- [[World in 24 Hours]] - diff --git a/_notes/world-in-24-hours.md b/_notes/world-in-24-hours.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ef6ca71 --- /dev/null +++ b/_notes/world-in-24-hours.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +date: 2021-04-25 +status: 🌱 +--- + +![The World in 24 Hours at Ars Electronica Festival, 1982](assets/images/world-in-24hrs.jpeg) +_The World in 24 Hours at Ars Electronica Festival, 1982. Photograph by Sepp Schaffler._ + +> The World in 24 Hours was a networked happening that linked sixteen cities worldwide, with the media art festival Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria acting as the central node. Each site was given one hour—coinciding with midday, local time—in which to generate and transmit content over a wide range of devices and networks, including computer terminals, phone, fax, and slow-scan TV. +> +> The project reflected [Robert] Adrian’s early insight that the network is not an artistic medium in the traditional sense. Rather, networked art would be defined by exchange—“taking place in the space between machines, only when the machines were on.” + + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/assets/images/world-in-24hrs.jpeg b/assets/images/world-in-24hrs.jpeg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dfb4b88 Binary files /dev/null and b/assets/images/world-in-24hrs.jpeg differ