The first website was created by Tim Berners-Lee in 1991, which then led to a whole new way of accessing and organising information. Nearly 30 years later, we now have large amounts of data available to us at all times, on various sites and platforms. However, the relationship between accessed information and our own knowledge is still unclear.
The premise of this exhibition is to explore the possible existence of another related endeavour before or in parallel with the creation of the internet. According to this idea, it might be possible to transfer massive amounts of data by sending short, encoded messages, while relying on the recipient’s background knowledge – almost as though we might know the contents of a whole book after reading the epigraph. The location is the scene of similar research, an abandoned laboratory.
