The Database Imaginary: Memory_Archive_Database v 4.0
Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Steve Dietz
in Database Aesthetics
edited by Victoria Vesna
2007
In 1968, in a report to the Rockefeller Foundation during a residency at SUNY Stony Brook, argued that 97 percent of all electronic music was not recorded and that “a simple measure would solve the whole problem. An information center for unpublished electronic media should be created.”1 At the time, this meant such a center would “provide a Xerox copy and a tape copy of musical pieces, at the request of performers, students, and organizers from all over the world.” Convert analog to digital, and the dream lives on, perhaps more vibrant than ever, of a universal database archive, with access to everything by anyone anywhere at any time. Read the rest of this entry »
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