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computer chronicles oct 13 - video installation/webstream
Computer Chronicles
Computer Chronicles was a weekly, PBS informational show on computers which ran from 1981 until 2002; from the early
days of the personal computer through the dot-com boom and subsequent bust. This work consists in re-presenting the
entirety of the series through a web-streamed perpetual loop broadcast from a computer installed in the gallery.
The work when operational is visible in the exhibition space via an of era computer screen and at the same time
remotely as a web-stream, taking 10 and a half days to repeat.
The series, consisting of 561 28 minute episodes, is a fascinating window into the sometimes humble beginnings of an
era of technology which today is fundamental to almost every aspect of our daily lives. Computer Chronicles, as a
series and also as a documentary artifact in its own right, is a stark reflection on the inevitability of redundancy.
The series in its entirety effectively presents that inevitability as both a paradox and paradigm of modern design
and ideology in the era of unabated neo-liberalism.