Anders Weberg continues his “aesthetics of ephmerality” project in which he uploads his work to P2P networks and then deletes all the material used to create it.
Swedish artist and filmmaker Anders Weberg, a self-described “human, mixed media artist and filmmaker,” has just completed a sixth piece titled in his “P2P Art – the aesthetics of ephemerally” series, which is basically art that is “made for – and only available on the P2P networks.”
It’s titled “090909” and is exactly 9hrs, 9 seconds, and 9 frames in duration.
“The original artwork is first shared by the artist until one other user has downloaded it,” he writes. “After that the artwork will be available for as long as other users share it.The original file and all the material used to create it are deleted by the artist.”
He uploads the original artwork to BitTorrent tracker sites, in this case the Pirate Bay, and seeds it until at least one other user has downloaded it. He then deletes it and everything used to create it from his PC so that the artwork will only be available for as long as others seed it.
When I interviewed Weberg after his first P2P piece he told me what his thoughts on the project.
He said:
For the last 10 years I have been fascinated about the net culture and how it has developed and how the boundaries between offline/online is being erased. That and being a fan of street art, graffiti and performance art I just transformed it into the streets of today, The Net. Also how most of the users treat their downloads ephemeral. That’s how I got the idea of making a film that is supposed to be used that way. Download it, share it if you like or just delete it. If you like it, keep it. The aesthetics of ephemerality.
It just proves that there are a number of legal uses for P2P.
Stay tuned.
jared@zeropaid.com
Here’s an excerpt….
090909[Excerpt2]by.Anders.Weberg.P2P-ART.com from Anders Weberg on Vimeo.
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