Undo/Delete
2011
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn; Photo © ZKM | Center for Art and Media
- Title
- Undo/Delete
- Year
- 2011
- Edition / Serial number
- 8
- Category
- Installation
- Computer-based
- Material / Technique
- website
- Collection
- ZKM | Center for Art and Media
- Description
- Create and save - or discard and delete ? In »Undo / Delete« (2011), the viewer‘s interaction, once again, triggers
but minimalistic, short-lived visual marks and acoustic incidents on a white webpage: generating virtual objects that seem to flee and to avoid the presence of the mouse cursor, popping up in the wrong places, and immediately vanishing thereafter, with a bustle of harsh sounds - acoustic traces of an analog process of undoing and revising, of erasing, ripping and crumbling, of deleting and discarding bits and pieces of information, of concepts and visions sketched down on paper, archived and hidden on the blank monitor page, invisible to the eye.
The reconstructed version on view in 2023 differs significantly from the ‘monochrome’ white, ‘blank’ original.
Author
Timo
Images
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn; Photo © ZKM | Center for Art and Media