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DO YOU THINK DIGITAL MEDIA
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Through this page we want to subvert the idea that everything we post on the web is eternal, since in reality it is ephemeral like us; so as you scroll and start reading the page you will see the evolution from the excess of information to the fateful crashes that will eventually disappear when you click on the elements of the list, the various links scattered on this page.
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“Through its storage (memory) power, digital media was once considered the solution, if not the antithesis, to volatile media like television. It was to make things perennial and available at any moment. It was also to overcome the drawbacks of degradation and unreliability connected to analog formats. However, it has been demonstrated that the digital is cause of numerous archival problems of its own — memory being the most
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-Ephemerality of Digital Media,
Francesco Imola, 2018
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“The fight against ephemerality brought us to devising machines with a memory which is, at least, more permanent the the human’s one.”

-Ephemerality of Digital Media,
Francesco Imola, 2018
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“Internet is data stored in real-life servers somewhere, some of which can hold terabytes of information. Servers are hardware machines, and like any hardware technology, they deteriorate.”

-Ephemerality of Digital Media,
Francesco Imola, 2018
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“Memory allegedly makes digital media an ever-increasing archive in which no piece of data is lost.”

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“Even media as stable as microfilm fade and break”

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“Digital media is not always there. We suffer daily frustrations with digital sources that just disappear. Digital media is degenerative, forgetful, eraseable.”

-The Enduring Ephemeral, or the Future Is a Memory, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, 2008
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“This belief depends on our machines as more stable and permanent and, thus, better record holders than human memory; it depends on an analogy between digital and analog media. This belief is remarkably at odds with the material transience of discrete information and the internet.”

-The Enduring Ephemeral, or the Future Is a Memory, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, 2008
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“Digital media depends on a degeneration actively denied and repressed. This degeneration, which engineers would like to divide into useful and harmful belies the promise of digital computers as permanent memory machines. This enduring ephemeral—a battle of diligence between the passing and the repetitive—also characterizes content. The internet may be available 24/7, but specific content may not. Further, if things constantly disappear, they also reappear, often to the chagrin of those trying
to erase data”

-The Enduring Ephemeral, or the Future Is a Memory, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, 2008
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Project developed in Communication Design III at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon in the academic year 2020-2021 by Alejandra Ferreira, Lúcio Simões, Marie Martins and Rafael Anacleto.
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