The future of the internet is ephemeral. The internet is evolving from a worldwide archive machine into a global performance machine. Temporary, local and unique ephemeral content is becoming the new status quo. Today´s teenagers are already accustomed to this shift in digital culture.
Ephemeral Data is a performance that stretches across the full ten days of SPRING and visualises this shift. Ephemeral Data uses sand, the raw material from which fibre optics are made, to create a gigantic sand mandala representing a Google Maps image of the city of Utrecht. During the festival a group of performers will be creating the mandala inch by inch, grain by grain. On the final day of SPRING at 15:00 the performancers will wipe the sand mandala away. The only thing left will be a heap of sand.
Producer: Jeroen van Loon
Coproducer: SPRING Performing Arts Festival
With support of: Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie, Gemeente Utrecht, Stichting Stokroos, Fentener van Vlissingen Fonds
Dates
16/05/2019 14:00
17/05/2019 14:00
18/05/2019 14:00
19/05/2019 14:00
20/05/2019 14:00
21/05/2019 14:00
22/05/2019 14:00
23/05/2019 14:00
24/05/2019 14:00
25/05/2019 14:00
Price
Gratis toegang/Free entrance
Location
De Neude
Edition
SPRING 2019
Info
Time: 14:00 - 22:00
Duration: continuous
Language: language no problem
On the final day of SPRING at
15:00 the performers will wipe
the sand mandala away. The only
thing left will be a heap of sand.
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