#a.e. benenson

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The Fourteenth Season of The Artist’s Institute with Madeline Hollander, Sean Raspet, Sam Lewitt

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"The logic of digital conservation would seem to defend its sites against every material stress; 3D models are not eaten away by time or biology and they are not worn down by use, rather they proliferate because of it. Still, most of these artifacts apparently bear signs of deterioration and decay: they are perforated, imbricated with debris, hollowed out, and broken into shards. Like the junk-piles known as middens to archeologists, the 123D Catch site paradoxically conserves its objects at the moment of their fragmentation. But if a midden grows out of cast-off objects, broken as they are discarded haphazardly as refuse, here the artifacts are fractured by the opposite force: not by inattention but a moment of intense technological attention" [Emphasis added].

Benenson, A.E. and Clement Valla. "Some Sites and Their Artifacts: 123D Catch." Rhizome. Vimeo. 07 May 2014. Web. 29 May 2014. 

[via Rhizome]