Event
Johannes Goebel | Expiry date for digital bits
Wed, September 28, 2016 6:00 pm CEST
Lecture Hall
Lecture/Talk
Johannes Goebel | Expiry date for digital bits
Archiving between magnetic fields, the Cloud and stone
- Date
- Duration in Seconds
- 4693
Duration (H:m:s)
1:18:13
- Width
- 640
- Height
- 360
Description
Family photos, scientific data, art videos, text, poems, financial data, documentation, websites and archives – We are happy to believe that everything that is digital or digitalised can be set aside perfectly for the future, as it is saved in a “universal code”. That it can be copied at will without loss as, well, a bit is a bit. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Leaving aside the continual and accelerated change of hardware and software, just the physical durability of a bit is far more limited than we want to accept.
Video Documentary:
ZKM | Institute for Visual Media
Camera: Sarah Binder, Peter Müller
Editing: Francisco Aurell