Tuesday, 6 December 2011

why

My initial concept didn't have the strength to stand alone and is both airy, in its lack of concrete definition; and muddied by the marrying of concept to process. It's not enough to index, via the process of casting, the absence of the objects that I've selected, and in order to dissolve the boundaries between the past and the present I need the casts to do more than just exist as dumb objects.


A suggestion was raised in a group crit today, in relation to the concept of information storage, that I should explore a comparison between the capacity storage of a floppy disk with that of modern day hard drives, external or otherwise. The common format 3 1/2 inch floppy disk has a capacity storage of 1.44MB. Working on the formula that 1GB is equivalent to 1024MB a 16GB USB flash drive is therefore equivalent to 11,377.78 floppy disks; with a 500GB external hard drive equivalent to 355,555,56 floppy's. 


I recently moved from PC to Mac after the hard drive failed on my DELL Inspiron 1545 2GB PC (equivalent to 1422.22 floppy disks). Following on from the crit today I'm now really enthused about the idea of incorporating this hard drive failure into my work. I've had a series of low end PC lap tops that have lasted at the most 2-3years before experiencing faults on the hard drives. Floppy's may well have outlived their usage but they were nothing if not reliable.

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