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June 23. 'Der Spiegel', 'Der Stern' and 'N24' publish short German-language articles about "Experience The Experience Of A Magnetism Party". Der Spiegel / Link Der Stern / Link N24 / Link [posted by johannes at 11:37 AM] Bring your friends! And data. We'll do the rest. June 18. Evening. A delete parade, a fete for the faded, for the yellowed! For the many little zeroes that dance behind red android eyes in lousy cyberpunk B movies! A party for bringing about and celebrating the loss of cultural memory. Iron shavings, taco chips and drinks are available. The MCs can hardly wait. But first... the opening talk. ![]() Before we inform the public about the magnetic act of purification we briefly deal with the so-called 'Magnetic Media Layer'. ![]() The Magnetic Media Layer is a very thin coating of magnetic material on a magnetic data disk drive which is where the actual data is stored; it is typically only a few millionths of an inch in thickness. ![]() Our hard disks are full! ![]() Field intensity H! Flux density B! ![]() Pleasant hours of erasure, iron filings, and peer-groupesque Corona consumption. ![]() The vibes are very engaging. ![]() Injuries caused by accidents with strong magnets: 1. ![]() We are almost unable to cope with the rush... ![]() ...but the old bogeyman of the information society should be finally given a good disregarding. ![]() Successful procedures: 13 3 1/2 inch disks ![]() 1 iPod (40 gig) ![]() Immediate results. A magnet a day keeps the iPod away. ![]() The Magnetism Party 2005: A significant success. (Pictures by Jason, Sean and Johannes.) [posted by johannes at 11:44 AM] Final Preparations June 18. Afternoon. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The time has come. [posted by johannes at 10:06 AM] Music? June 18. Midday. We start selecting music for the evening. Some examples: Matthias Kertal: Alles Verloren (Lost Everything / Life Goes On) Vibemaster: Eine Bewegung (A Movement) TNT Jackson: Ratterbit [posted by johannes at 11:58 AM] Party store June 17. Morning. Evelyn, Mark and Johannes buy party stuff. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Neodymium iron boron (NdFeB) magnets have the highest magnetic field strength, but are inferior to samarium cobalt in resistance to oxidation and temperature. This type of magnet is expensive, due to both the cost of raw materials and licensing of the patents involved. This high cost limits their use to applications where such high strengths from a compact magnet are critical. Use of protective surface treatments such as gold, nickel, zinc and tin plating and epoxy resin coating can provide corrosion and thermal protection where required. ![]() [posted by johannes at 12:51 PM] Party off! June 16: Two more days... ![]() [posted by johannes at 10:25 AM] Respect! Respect! Oersted! Electromagnetic data carriers are subject to the influences of time. Thus errors accumulate due to a) mechanical influences, b) chemical influences, c) thermal influences, d) influences of external magnetic fields. Information is affected by the fact that data carriers age. Bits can no longer be read or they may be altered, and thus the information is lost. Correct handling and storage are the basic requirements for keeping your data carriers in good condition. Improper handling may produce scratches and therefore mechanical damage of the data carrier. The data carrier must be protected from dust and other contamination. Even fingerprints left on data media are to be avoided. Here the most important chemical processes are corrosion and hydrolysis. High temperatures will cause the data carrier to expand. Due to rotational instability, errors may thus occur in the reading process. Moreover, high temperatures will aggravate the chemical processes mentioned above. With regard to magnetic storage, data may even be deleted directly by very high temperatures (above 250 degrees C). The same may happen if the data carrier is exposed to magnetic fields. Perfect. ![]() The Magnetism Party 2005 @ Machine Project will take place on 18 June 2005, starting at 8 PM. The motto is 'Zeroize it! Hardcore gaussing!' and the user-friendly team of the disposition group monochrom will delete your data utilising several strong neodym magnets and some not so strong bar magnets while listening to timely underground mainstream rhythms. Hand over your video tapes, music records, credit cards, motherboards and/or jazz/zip/syquest data carriers! ![]() The destruction of magnetic data media is a type of destruction one may well call unspectacular. However. It is correct anyway. Our society gathers, collects and amasses. Our hard disks are full. But the bourgeois-humanist critique 'the informational flood', this maelstrom that seems to attack the printed word, may kiss our Baudrillardian asses. All the lamenting about the net being a threat to high culture is as alien to us as Whiskas to Marshall McLuhan. Our project is more of an attempt to actively deal with an aspect of info society which is almost completely ignored by our cognitive machinery. 'We want to give it an image more positive than the pathogenous. We refuse to regard as experienceable only that part of life which is expressible, explainable, and instrumentalisable. We refuse to accept oblivion as the appendix of memory,' said Herwig Turk once. Let us write this on our magnets! Today it is impossible to store digital data for over a decade so that its readability is guaranteed. This is mainly due to the quick development of hard- and software and thus the rapid obsolescence of data systems. However, the physical durability of data carriers operated by current technologies also restricts the service life of digital data to a few decades. According to information technology, 60% of the landing on the moon never happened. Most of the magnetic tapes from the 60s and early 70s have already been damaged and can no longer be read. This also effects data which has not even been analysed. Good! ![]() Delete is just another word for nothing left to lose. [posted by johannes at 9:33 AM] Experience The Experience Of A Magnetism Party ![]() [posted by johannes at 11:08 AM] |
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