{press} 404 project Seoul 2007
International Symposium and Workshop
regarding data/media art preservation, presentation and archiving
“404 Object Not Found_ Seoul2007”
October 22 - 26 2007 @ Total Museum of Contemporary Art
“In memory of the heroic boys and girls that worked deep into the night for all those months, in those small and hot offices at CERN, Rom 404 is preserved as a ‘place on the web.’ None of the other rooms are still used for the Web. Room 404 is the only and true monument to the beginning of the Web, a tribute to a place in the past, where the future was shaped.”
Copyright © 1997-2003 Room 404. All rights reserved.
When internet is introduced to daily life, people excited about this totally different world form our physical space. It makes blur the geographical distance and time zone. When people access to the internet, they will see limitless-like space. Just like this, web is considered as the space which is very of the secured, the safe and most of all, the free. Even it seems to be very much equal space for everybody. However, unlikely our expectation, Web is the still very fragile and tentative space. Unfortunately people do not take this as the serious issue. Read the rest of this entry »
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