community

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1994 - 404

author

Rene Christen

date

2008

project description

'1992-404' is a memorial to dead web links which pokes fun at precious thinking about online identity, 1992 being the beginning of the Internet in its popular form and 404 being the error code a web browser receives when trying to view a dead link. The piece appears as an appropriation of Maya Lins' Vietnam War Memorial, not to degrade the war memorial in any way, but rather to emphasise the triviality of the subject matter by comparing the two. A physical installation of this piece then extends the idea of these ephemeral identities being imbued with physical mortality.