no. 23 Editorial
Moodboard

ISSN · 2183-5527

Visual Essay + Author in residence

7 Portraits

7 Portraits

João Fonte Santa

VHS, 29' By João Fonte Santa, assisted by António Caramelo The video Sete Retratos was created for the exhibition Mundo de Aventuras, curated by José Alberto Ferreira, and features 7 video portraits, …

7 Portraits

B, Y, R

Visual Essay

B, Y, R

Henrique Biatto

Água Viva

Visual Essay

Água Viva

Lander Patrick, Gonçalo Marques, José Soares

Through the longest path

Visual Essay

Through the longest path

Margarida Rodrigues (MAR)

Working with mountains is easy

Article

Working with mountains is easy

Isadora Alves

Process Of Unframability

Sound Essay

Process Of Unframability

Frantz Loriot

Drowned, in the shame of light

Visual Essay

Drowned, in the shame of light

Isabela Abate & João Castro

Workbook on the adaptation of the play The Man Outside (1947)

Visual Essay

Workbook on the adaptation of the play The Man Outside (1947)

Pedro Paiva

Sightings

Visual Essay

Sightings

Francisco Novais

HALF A STEP FROM HOME

Visual Essay

HALF A STEP FROM HOME

António Olaio

Misfits

Visual Essay

Misfits

Fabrizio Matos

Out Of Here

Sound Essay

Out Of Here

Quatroconnection (Carla Santana)

Weiße Rose

Visual Essay + Author in residence

Weiße Rose

João Fonte Santa

it was just drained, drained

Sound Essay

it was just drained, drained

André Hencleeday

Lavagem

Visual Essay

Lavagem

João Jacinto

XXX

Visual Essay + Author in residence

XXX

João Fonte Santa

The hand with no specialty

Visual Essay

The hand with no specialty

Carolina Lino

Wrong Wrong n.23

Misfits

Author in residence 31.07.2015

Hard drive eulogy: to edit vaguely forgotten objects

Sofia Gonçalves

90% of the existing data has been generated over the past 5 years ^{fig. 1}. Our storage capacity increases extraordinarily ^{fig. 2}, but this is not matched with an identical capability to process it ^{fig. 3}. In this online residency — in full «eye of the storm» ^{fig. 4} — it is not my ambition ^{fig. 5} to change these numbers ^{fig. 6}, but merely to explore ^{fig. 6a}, from a range ^{fig. 7} of restrictions ^{fig. 8} or rules*, my personal experience ^{fig. 9} of coexistence ^{fig. 10} with this information.
Let us begin with a symbol of the personal universe of overabundance ^{fig. 11} of information — the hard drive ^{fig. 12}— a space where personal production (images ^{fig. 13}, text, videos, etc.) and global production (downloads ^{fig. 14}, contents from specified or anonymous sources ^{fig. 15}) converge. Each hard drive is the place ^{fig. 16} of an immense accumulation of visual, audio and textual materials ^{fig. 17}. If we keep something in our computer (via the command «save» ^{fig. 18}) it is because we want to preserve it ^{fig. 19}. But is that what actually happens ^{fig. 20} to the vast majority of information that we store in our hard drives? Are not most of our files in an existential limbo ^{fig. 21} — between the final delete («trash» ^{fig. 22}) and imminent loss ^{fig. 23} due to the obsolescence ^{fig. 24} of computers, operating systems or data storage media?
In Hard drive eulogy, editing is the assurance of safekeeping or the deliverance of memory towards an overabundance of content ^{fig. 25}. We’ll explore the potential of editorial narratives starting from a paradox ^{fig. 26}: from the forgotten content, immovable ^{fig. 27}, stopped ^{fig. 28}, frozen ^{fig. 29}, to a content that is made public, that circulates ^{fig. 30}. The editing process will not be based on indexing processes (the common procedure ^{fig. 31} of the archive), but from the design ^{fig. 32} of associative trails ^{fig. 33}. It will be filter, rescue system ^{fig. 34}, selection ^{fig. 35}, organization ^{fig. 36} and distribution of what we consider to have value in face of everything that already exists ^{fig. 37}.

* Rules: Search Compile Post

Content can be original or appropriated: text, images, audiovisual materials. The search will follow the most convenient methods: it will be confined to a word or expression (using the local search engine), limited to a single folder (images, downloads, documents), etc.

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fig. 1) ILLICH, Ivan. (1975). «Energia e equidade» in Cadernos livres #7. Lisbon: Edições Sá da Costa, p. 6.

fig. 2) TAVERNIER, John Baptista. (1678). The six voyages of John Baptista Tavernier, a noble man of France now living, through Turky into Persia and the East-Indies, finished in the year 1670 giving an account of the state of those countries.

fig. 3) CARVALHO, Rómulo de. (1981). Cadernos de Iniciação Científica # 7 – As forças. Lisbon: Edições Sá da Costa, p. 8.

fig. 4) MITCHELL, Sir T. Livingstone. (1848). Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia, in Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria.

fig. 5) SILVA, Agostinho da. (1943). Como se faz um túnel. Lisbon: Edição do autor.

fig. 6) GODARD, Jean-Luc (1967). La Chinoise

fig. 7) JONG, Jacqueline de. (1962). «How do you take your coffee?» in The Situationist Times #2, p. 26.

fig. 8) CARVALHO, Rómulo de. (1979). Cadernos de Iniciação Científica #5 – A estrutura cristalina. Lisbon: Edições Sá da Costa, p. 9.

fig. 9) FARADAY, Michael. (1909-14). The Chemical History of a Candle. Harvard Conferences.

fig. 10) COSTA, Alexandre Alves. «Projecto SAAL», Centro de documentação 25 de Abril, 1975.

fig. 11) LOCKE, John. (1689). Of the abuse of words. London: Penguin Books, 2009, folha de rosto.

fig. 12) MATOSO, António G., ATAÍDE, Álvaro. (1946). Ciências Geográfico Naturais. Lisbon: Edições Sá da Costa, p. 136.

fig. 13) MATOSO, António G., ATAÍDE, Álvaro. (1946). Ciências Geográfico Naturais. Lisbon: Edições Sá da Costa, p. 4.

fig. 14) CARVALHO, Rómulo de. (1982). Cadernos de Iniciação Científica # 10 – A composição do ar. Lisbon: Edições Sá da Costa, p. 5.

fig. 15) Screenshot: search for images with the expression «Kropotkin», July 2011.

fig. 16) MONZÓN, Francisco de. (1563). Norte de Ydiotas, compuesto y revisto [...]. A donde se trata de un exercicio muy espiritual y provechoso. En Lixboa: en casa de Ioannes Blauio de Colonia.

fig. 17) NIETZSCHE, Friedrich. (1882). The Gay Science. Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

fig. 18) O’NEILL, Alexandre. (1979). Feira cabisbaixa. Lisbon: Edições Sá da Costa, p. 14.

fig. 19) GODINHO, Vitorino Magalhães. (1978). Para a renovação da política nacional — Cadernos livres #13. Lisbon: Edições Sá da Costa, p. 5.

fig. 20) SÉRGIO, António. (1978). Antologia sociológica – Pátio das comédias das palestras e das pregações. Clássicos Sá da Costa. Lisbon: Edições Sá da Costa, p. 25.

fig. 21) Grupo Surrealista de Lisboa. Catalog of the 1^st Surrealist Exhibition, censored cover, 1949.

fig. 22) CARVALHO, Rómulo de. (1980). Cadernos de Iniciação Científica # 6 – A energia. Lisbon: Edições Sá da Costa, contracapa.

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fig. 24) BRITO, João de. (data desconhecida). Lição-modelo de gimnástica sueca. Para uso das Escolas Primárias. Lisbon: Edições Sá da Costa.

fig. 25) MATOSO, António G., BOLÉO, José de Oliveira. (1956). Volta ao Mundo — Compêndio de ciências geográfico-naturais. Lisbon: Edições Sá da Costa, p. 173.

fig. 26) RIBEIRO, João. (1685). History of Ceylon Island. Ceilão: Government Press.

fig. 27) ROUCH, Jean. (1974). Cocorico! Monsieur Poulet.

fig. 28) ILLICH, Ivan. (1975). Energia e equidade – Cadernos livres #7. Lisbon: Edições Sá da Costa, p. 9.

fig. 29) CARVALHO, Rómulo de. (1979). Cadernos de Iniciação Científica #3 – A natureza corpuscular da matéria. Lisbon: Edições Sá da Costa, verso de capa.

fig. 30) CARVALHO, Rómulo de. (1979). Cadernos de Iniciação Científica #3 – A natureza corpuscular da matéria. Lisbon: Edições Sá da Costa, p. 3.

fig. 31) Ludwig Wittgenstein’s cabin in Sognefjord, Norway. (1914 -1921). Photography by Ben Richards. Cambridge: Wittgenstein Archive.

fig. 32) ALMEIDA, Alfredo Betâmio de. (1964). Compêndio de desenho para o 1º ciclo dos liceus. Lisbon: Edições Sá da Costa, p. 16.

fig. 33) CARVALHO, Rómulo de. (1978). «Advertências ao Viajante» in Cadernos de Iniciação Científica #1 – A descoberta do mundo físico. Lisbon: Edições Sá da Costa, p. 8.

fig. 34) CASTILHO, António Feliciano de. (1853). Método Castilho para o ensino rapido e aprasivel do ler impresso, manuscrito, e numeração e do escrever.

fig. 35) REINFURT, David. (2004). «Global Branding» in Dot Dot Dot. 8. New York: Princeton Architectural Press.

fig. 36) MOXON, Joseph. (1663). Mechanick Exercises: Or, the Doctrine of Handy-Works Applied to the Art of Printing. New York: Typothetæ of the City of New York, 1896.

fig. 37) OLIVEIRA, R. Darcy, DOMINICÉ, P. (1977). Ivan e Paulo Freire: a opressão da pedagogia — Cadernos Livres #11. Lisbon: Edições Sá da Costa, p. 2.

Author in residence

Preamble

Sofia Gonçalves

GAP AS A METAPHOR