<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div>==================================================================</div><div>TRAVERSING THE DESERT</div><div>===================</div><div><br></div><div>A
quiet desert failure is an ongoing algorithmic performance by Guido
Segni started in 2013 and publicly released in 2015 in the context of
The Wrong (again) - New Digital Art Biennale.</div><div><br></div><div>In
its own way, it’s a monumental piece about internet, digital contents,
emptiness, time, storage, memory, oblivion and - ultimately - failure.</div><div><br></div><div>Segni
programmed an Internet bot to traverse the datascape of Google Maps in
order to fill a Tumblr blog and its datacenters with a remapped
representation of the whole Sahara Desert, one post a time, every 30
minutes.</div><div><br></div><div>The whole performance will
approximately take 50 years to be completed, and it consists in the
indexing process of about one million pieces of sandy desert.</div><div>It
is still not clear if the audience, the Google’s servers, the tumblr
archive or the Internet itself will last enough to see the end.</div><div><br></div><div>So, be patient, </div><div>don’t hurry.</div><div>The desert is coming.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://desert.fail/ure" target="_blank">http://desert.fail/ure</a></div><div><a href="http://quietdesertfailure.tumblr.com" target="_blank">http://quietdesertfailure.tumblr.com</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>==================================================================</div><div>THE WRONG</div><div>==========</div><div><br></div><div>A
quiet desert failure is also part of “(In)exactitude in science” an
online/offline pavillion curated by Kamilia Kard and Filippo Lorenzin
for The Wrong (again) - New Digital Art Biennale </div><div><br></div><div>(In)exactitude in science</div><div>curated by Kamilia Kard and Filippo Lorenzin</div><div><br></div><div>Enrico
Boccioletti, Emilie Brout e Maxime Marion, Marco Cadioli, Alka
Cappellazzo, Mighty KongBot (Domenico Barra e Luigi Console), Marco
Mendeni, Jacques Perconte, Antoine Schmitt, Guido Segni, Natalia
Trejbalova, Fabien Zocco.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>==================================================================</div><div>INFO & CREDITS</div><div>============</div><div><br></div><div>Fail/URL</div><div><a href="http://desert.fail/ure" target="_blank">http://desert.fail/ure</a></div><div><a href="http://desert.fail/url" target="_blank">http://desert.fail/url</a></div><div><br></div><div>The tumblr archival performance</div><div><a href="http://quietdesertfailure.tumblr.com" target="_blank">http://quietdesertfailure.tumblr.com</a></div><div><br></div><div>Music</div><div>Fabio Angeli, Lorenzo Del Grande</div><div><br></div><div>The Wrong Pavillion</div><div><a href="http://inexactitudeinscience.com" target="_blank">http://inexactitudeinscience.com</a></div><div><br></div><div>Special thanks to</div><div>Florian Kuhlmann & Digital3mpire</div><div><br></div><div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div><div><span><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div><span><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Guido Segni</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Imaginary artist</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0)" size="2"><a href="http://www.guidosegni.com" target="_blank">www.guidosegni.com</a><br><a href="http://www.lesliensinvisibles.org" target="_blank">www.lesliensinvisibles.org</a><br></font></div></font></span></div></div><div><br></div>
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