Failbase
October 6th, 2009. Filed under: exhibitions, installation.Nik and I have a piece in the Sesnon Gallery’s Full Disclosure show, opening tomorrow. The Sesnon is in Porter College on UCSC’s campus. The opening is Wednesday, October 7th from 4:30-6:30pm and the show will be up until November 21st.
Failbase 831.xxx.4046 is a system for the collection and output of participant testimonies of failure. By leaving voicemail or sending SMS (text) messages to (831) xxx-4046, participants can submit their failures. As they speak or type, the failures are printed in the gallery as paper receipts. Visitors to the gallery space are encouraged to submit their own failures, as well as to read, cut, notate and file incoming failures according to how they see fit.
Failbase 831.xxx.4046 was conceived and created by Digital Arts and New Media graduate students Nik Hanselmann and Nick Lally under the auspices of E.G. Crichton who invited them to be part of Archive of What’s Left Behind.