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Bruno Taut, designer, Blanche Mahlberg, inventor, Dandanah, The Fairy Palace, Germany, 1919-1920...
Bruno Taut, designer, Blanche Mahlberg, inventor, Dandanah, The Fairy Palace, Germany, 1919-1920...
Topographical map by an unknown draughtsman, n.d. CCA Collection
11 November 2010 – 6 February 2011
Octagonal Gallery, Canadian Centre for Architecture
404 Error: The object is not online is an investigation of the habits of an everyday technology, the internet, and how it relates to activities like collecting, exhibiting, research, and publication. The project experiments by reversing the typical order of an exhibition, presented in the galleries and then represented online, and instead beginning with the online representations and assembling them together.
In contrast to the web, a museum can be defined as a place where the physical presence of objects is the rule; if a copy if present, it is identified as an exception. By tracking objects from their online representations and putting them together in a physical space, some patterns emerge: the web flattens together odour, flavour, distance, weight, texture, and movement into vision; the sustaining systems of the web are banal devices and structures, a mostly hidden infrastructure; online, meaning can be information — data not experience — that may be cut from its context.
The live feed on this website came from a webcam in the Octagonal gallery of the CCA. When visitors in Montreal entered the gallery, examined objects, and maybe played with the glass blocks in the "Machine for Touching", the web visitor could watch them and look at photos of the objects. Simultaneously, all web visitors' cursors were tracked and mouse pointers projected onto the table of objects in the gallery. This table became an intersection of the online and offline "worlds". Now, the website is all that remains of the exhibition.
The website is accessible through an error. Instead of using a web address like cca.qc.ca/404, the site appropriates the functionality of the cca web server: all errors are redirected here. It is the first website we know of that can be found only if the visitor does not know the address.
Graphic and web design for 404 Error were developed in collaboration with Rumors, New York.
11 November 2010 – 13 February 2011
Octagonal Gallery, Canadian Centre for Architecture
Lev Bratishenko, CCA, exhibition curator
Rumors, graphic concept and implementation