[spectre] Meet to Delete! @Galerie Up Bruxelles, April 26th

[Annick Bureaud]

Meet to Delete!

Saturday April 26th 2014
17h00 – 21h00 local time
Galerie Up - Bruxelles
17 avenue Paul Dejaer

www.galerie-up.com
info at galerie-up.com

Clarisse Bardiot and Annick Bureaud are happy to invite you 
on April 26th 2014 to Galerie Up in Bruxelles to Meet to 
Delete! as part of the art project 'The Weight of 
Information' by Julian Priest.


The Weight of Information – A Femto Art Satellite in Low 
Earth Orbit
On April 18th, aboard the SpaceX-3 Commercial Resupply 
Services flight CRS-3, a small art satellite has been 
launched into Low Earth Orbit from where it will begin to 
descend in a spiral trajectory before burning up on 
re-entry. The Satellite collects information from it's 
on-board sensors filling it's memory banks with data. When 
its memory is full it resets its registers to zero and 
starts collecting again, repeating this process thousands of 
times a second. The satellite believes that information has 
weight and is trying to escape it's death spiral towards 
burn-up by deleting information, being lighter and ascending 
to a higher orbit by forgetting.

Meet to Delete! A Four Hour Evening Event
You are invited to meet to delete in solidarity with the 
satellite. Come together at Galerie Up to lighten your 
information weight. Bring some personal information to 
delete around a drink during this 4 hour evening event: it 
could be destroying old (paper) bank statements, removing 
old contacts from your phone, cleaning out your spam folder, 
removing out of focus photos from your archive. Join us to 
delete something, remove the cruft, take control of your 
information, and feel a little lighter. And remember to 
delete more information than you create!
http://julianpriest.org/

Julian Priest is an artist living and working in New 
Zealand. He works with participatory and technological forms.