Introduction
Tanimoto’s experience of damaged floppy disks motivates a fictional collapsed blockchain world. Rectangles, drifting data and waves synthesised from white noise form a work with click-activated sound and adjustable flow.
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Imagining data loss on a blockchain
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Work and historical context
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Imagining data loss on a blockchain
Tanimoto’s experience of damaged floppy disks motivates a fictional collapsed blockchain world. Rectangles, drifting data and waves synthesised from white noise form a work with click-activated sound and adjustable flow.
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Viewing the work and its documentation
Consider how digital information is translated into perceptible structures in Memories of Digital Data. Compare repetition, difference and layering with its statement about memory, without inferring the use of private archival data from the title.
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Editorial interpretation: The work questions promises of permanence from within blockchain art. Its fictional collapse must remain distinct from actual platform failures.
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The work questions promises of permanence from within blockchain art. Its fictional collapse must remain distinct from actual platform failures.
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