AVATAR – Lecture March V

Vortrag von Michael Saup zur Finnisage der Kunstausstellung ZUR NACHAHMUNG EMPFOHLEN! im Zehntspeicher in Gartow bei Gorleben am 5. März 2011.

Counting on our favourite beast: the Internet

How hungry is our favourite beast? And who is sleeping in the big black pyramid?

A realtime energy counter for the Internet at http://openresource.1001suns.com

Saup, on the other hand, with his monumental sculpture “Avatar Incarnation cRdxXPV9GNQ” depicts the daily consumption of energy by the seemingly clean Internet so strikingly and impressively “that it will blow every visitor away and is guaranteed to make them think.”
Donaukurier

SCIENCE |
Media Metrics |
2010

How much energy is needed to view one single video on YouTube?

AVATAR | 2010

Avatar introduces the avatar of Hollywood’s “Avatar” online YouTube-trailer. A massive body of coal equivalent to the energy used to serve, transmit and view the trailer 1 million times over the Internet.

The Sorcerer and the Source | 2011

The nuclear diaries of Johanson Johan Johan

FALLING FOREST | CHERNOBYL | 2008

How I stole the radioactive
Tree of Half-Life
from Chernobyl

“Radioactive traces will be the heritage to the next generations and not the cultural artifacts.”
Margit Rosen on Pulse8 by Michael Saup, 1992

Radioactive Gaga | 2008

Radioactive goo goo.

1001 SUNS – 360° | 2002 – 2004

Filmed in India, Sri Lanka, Morocco, Afghanistan and Europe from 2000-2004.

digital declaration by the infossil corrective | 2003

we have mutated from collective, connective to corrective.
let us correct you, before it is too late.

LUX ZIFFER | 2001

an anonymous award for those who feed or fight the digital dragon.

an anonymous award for those who where given the deepest kiss of code.

QUOTE R111

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