D_046 database

Adriana de Souza e Silva,

Department of Design | Media ArtsÊ| UCLA

School of Communications (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)

Fabian Winkler,

Department ofÊDesign | Media Arts | UCLA

students with Professor Dr. Bill Seaman and Professor Dr. N. Katherine HaylesÊ

Los Angeles, CA - USA

database is an installation that deals with the inversed functionality of three electronic devices: a printer, a video-camera and a database. Consequently, it raises issues about the erasure of text, the act of reading in real time (i.e., listening to a printed text), and physical databases. We challenge the idea of databases as non-linear and digital structures, and printers as output devices as well as information recorders. The installation deals with the opposition between presence vs. absence, recording vs. erasing, memory vs. forgetfulness, present vs. continuous time, and reading vs. listening. These concepts are connected with the idea of present time as a time that is always passing by.

Software/plugins needed to view the project: Macromedia Director 8.5, Print-o-Matic xtra (full version), Windows Millenium, Canon BJ 1000Êprinter driver.Ê