 Jee Oh’s live-performance and installation seed_1216976400 translates the evolving process of communication, revisions, and adaptations that form a shared Wiki page into the exhibition space, thus making the invisible movements and detours that happen online to be experienced in the physical space. Interview with Christine Takengny(2011) seed_1216976400 froze in time a specific moment of a wiki-documented project on an impressively long paper roll. (neural.it, 2008) People regard the Internet as 'space' we could possibly inhabit; second life, facebook, wikipedia etc. It is an open environment capable of distributing any kind of information in a decentralized manner and the very nature provides the possibility that objects can exist as evolving pieces of digital data and they are continually remixed by people. Lev Manovich compared information to a train and each receiver to a train station: Information arrives, gets remixed with other information, and then the new package travels to other destinations where the process is repeated. seed_1216976400 visualises the history of text revisions of four wiki web pages in a form of four giant corrugated recycled paper rolls. I developed a small new media artwork with two collaborators over the course of 6 months and seed_1216976400 was to map the development process in a physical form. The 10 digits '1216976400' indicates a still frame in time of the wiki-documented content evolution since the creation of a web page. The 10 digits ‘1216976400’ is in fact the converted Unix time stamp of 2008-07-25 00:00:00 GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) which was the first day of the ISEA2008 exhibition. 'Can form follow function?' Acknowledgements: Arts Council Korea, Hosung Lee, Mirae Seo, MIRAGE@KAIST, National University of Singapore, ISEA2008 and Fred Lee |
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