URL Stone

2018

Marble, JPG File, Wikipedia Article, dual-channel video, GPS sensor, website

The work aims to study the various properties and longevity of media carriers that we assign the function of storing, transmitting and preserving knowledge. The investigation will juxtapose the same information being held by two fundamentally different mediums: a text carved into stone, an ancient way of preserving knowledge and a .jpeg file hosted on Wikipedia, the common method of documenting knowledge to date. The text carved onto a marble plaque includes a URL address, which refers to an image of this particular

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marble plaque located within the Wikipedia media storage and followed by the article. The article describes the intent of creation and the current location of the marble plate, available for updating by the idea underlying the principles of the site. The project is not complete until one of the two media carriers is eventually lost, thus revealing its less durable qualities in the site of the other. Which one will be lost first? Only time will tell...