Machines in flames: computation, destruction, and the lure of archives
Machines in flames: computation, destruction, and the lure of archives
Machines in Flames is a secret history of destruction that follows the footsteps of a clandestine group of 1980s computer workers who bombed tech companies. The film combines archival traces, a viral desktop choreography, and late-night video recordings of the group’s targets into a meditation on computation, destruction, and the lure of archives.
Dekeyser, Thomas
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Culp, Andrew
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12 December 2024
Dekeyser, Thomas
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Culp, Andrew
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Dekeyser, Thomas and Culp, Andrew
(2024)
Machines in flames: computation, destruction, and the lure of archives.
[in]Transition, 11 (4).
(doi:10.16995/intransition.16519).
Abstract
Machines in Flames is a secret history of destruction that follows the footsteps of a clandestine group of 1980s computer workers who bombed tech companies. The film combines archival traces, a viral desktop choreography, and late-night video recordings of the group’s targets into a meditation on computation, destruction, and the lure of archives.
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Accepted/In Press date: 2 September 2024
Published date: 12 December 2024
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/497259
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