DUMP YOUR TRASH! (1997)

Joachim Blank & Karl Heinz Jeron

Ⓒ Joachim Blank & Karl Heinz Jeron

Dump your trash !
A homepage recycling project on the internet
http://sero.org/dyt/
A form on the website "http://sero.org/dyt" asks visitors to enter their email address and a homepage address.
and a homepage address. If the visitor accepts, a software agent transfers the
software agent transfers the content of this address. The transmitted texts, mostly also pictures,
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are now further processed in a modified layout, with the help of image processing filters and
stone texture templates. The result simulates a stone slab in which text and image have been
image have been carved. As soon as the simulation is finished on the web server, the visitor receives a message by e-mail.
visitor receives a message by e-mail. In addition, the result is added to the list of already
registered visitors' homepages on http://sero.org and thus becomes visible to the
visible to the net public.
The virtual stone slab can be converted into a real stone slab. Also by means of a
form at "http://sero.org/dyt/", internet visitors can order their recycled homepage made of
real stone. As sandblasted marble or granite stone slabs, with the
inscribed homepages, they will be produced in two versions with a size of 40cm x 60cm x 2cm
by the artists Blank & Jeron sero@sero.org and will be sent to you against payment.
against payment.
It is no coincidence that the results of the project are reminiscent of inscriptions in gravestones. The
idea of "Dump Your Trash!" is about the importance of personal homepages on the
homepages on the World Wide Web. Gravestones are commonly regarded as proof of existence. Does that
to home pages on the World Wide Web?
"Dump Your Trash!" is a work from the project series "Information.Recycling

Source : http://blankjeron.com/information.recycling_WORK_DESCRIPTION/1998_dump_your_trash/dyt070400.pdf