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LIA, Cube_1997 (2019)

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Stewarded Collection: a2p, Fall 2019
full screen
Medium

Video

Edition

Edition of 10 (0 on Ethereum)

Created

2019

Issued

06 October 2019 on Bitmark, asset 0ba03b606b69…

Provenance

Re-released on Ethereum in The Experiment (Feral File, 2023): see the series

Stewarded Collection
Released by

a2p

Blockchain

ethereum (migrated from Bitmark)

Cube_1997 Cube_1997 was never lost. Its creator, LIA, brought forth its existence in 1997 using the power of her mouse and her keyboard and her will (and some electricity, too); it had failed to sufficiently please her at the time and, after just a few years, she abandoned it, and it lay, forgotten, in a folder within a folder, at a dark corner in the furthest reaches of her realm of ancient backups. But things that are only forgotten are not actually lost; things that are only hidden can be found once more. It has been 22 years since Cube_1997 was forged and, even if many things have changed meanwhile, many things are still the same: a pixel is still a pixel, black is still 0x000000, white is still 0xFFFFFF, and LIA still loves both black and white with all her heart. Like love letters to a former self, Cube_1997 was rediscovered and recovered, and brought into the 21st century with much care and love. Sadly, not all things can be preserved in such a transition, and what was once a fully living and breathing application, capable of generating an infinite number of images forever (albeit at a somewhat shabby resolution of 640x480), can, today, only manage 24 seconds in one sitting - but for that 24 seconds, Cube_1997 shines forth in glorious 1080p. Damian Stewart September 2019

Editions, as the exchange left them on the Bitmark chain

  • AP LIA
  • 1/10 UBERMORGEN
  • 2/10 Émilie Brout & Maxime Marion
  • 3/10 Rosa Menkman
  • 4/10 Jennifer Steinkamp
  • 5/10 Auriea Harvey XLVIII
  • 6/10 Yoshi Sodeoka
  • 7/10 John Gerrard
  • 8/10 Addie Wagenknecht
  • 9/10 John Gerrard
  • 10/10 Shu Lea Cheang