Meet to Delete!
Saturday April 26th 2014
17h00 – 21h00 local time
Galerie Up - Bruxelles
17 avenue Paul Dejaer
www.galerie-up.com
[email protected]
Clarisse Bardiot and Annick Bureaud are happy to invite you
on April 26th 2014 to Galerie Up in Bruxelles to Meet to
Delete! as part of the art project 'The Weight of
Information' by Julian Priest.
The Weight of Information – A Femto Art Satellite in Low
Earth Orbit
On April 18th, aboard the SpaceX-3 Commercial Resupply
Services flight CRS-3, a small art satellite has been
launched into Low Earth Orbit from where it will begin to
descend in a spiral trajectory before burning up on
re-entry. The Satellite collects information from it's
on-board sensors filling it's memory banks with data. When
its memory is full it resets its registers to zero and
starts collecting again, repeating this process thousands of
times a second. The satellite believes that information has
weight and is trying to escape it's death spiral towards
burn-up by deleting information, being lighter and ascending
to a higher orbit by forgetting.
Meet to Delete! A Four Hour Evening Event
You are invited to meet to delete in solidarity with the
satellite. Come together at Galerie Up to lighten your
information weight. Bring some personal information to
delete around a drink during this 4 hour evening event: it
could be destroying old (paper) bank statements, removing
old contacts from your phone, cleaning out your spam folder,
removing out of focus photos from your archive. Join us to
delete something, remove the cruft, take control of your
information, and feel a little lighter. And remember to
delete more information than you create!
http://julianpriest.org/
Julian Priest is an artist living and working in New
Zealand. He works with participatory and technological forms.
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