This Saturday, Monochrom (crazy Austrian net-artists) continue their rampage across the West Coast with "Experience The Experience Of A Magnetism Party" at Los Angeles's Machine Project:
Accompanied by contemporary alternative mainstream rhythms and using
several heavy-duty neodym magnets, monochrom will delete all the data
carriers that can be found. Naturally the public is invited to bring data
carriers themselves.The destruction of magnetic storage media is a form of destruction that can
reasonably be called unspectacular. But it is important. Our society
collects and collects and collects. The hard drives are full. However, we
can also dispense with the bourgeois-humanist criticism of the "information
flood", this maelstrom that is said to attack the printed word. The
Magnetism Party is therefore an attempt to actively come to terms with one
aspect of the information society that is almost completely ignored by our
epistemological machinery.Delete is just another word for nothing left to lose.
Time/place: June 18, 8 PM, Machine Project, LA
