Embrace the Decay
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Embrace the Decay
by Bruce Sterling
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MOCA DIGITAL GALLERY
Launch date: September 2003
Embrace the Decay is an interactive, web-based project about the
destructive relationship between computers and typewriters. The
artwork turns the web-surfing computer-user into an unwilling
typewriter clerk. But the era of the typewriter is over and beyond
all retrieval: the dead machine rusts and crumbles, its pages fade
and rot in surprising ways, and it is finally, ritually entombed.
“Viewers will feel an ache of pain and wonder as the once-glorious
typewriter and all its works are methodically destroyed by electronic
means,” says Sterling.
Bruce Sterling is the author of nine novels, three of which were
selected as New York Times Notable Books of the Year. He has
published short stories and works of nonfiction, as well as contributed
regularly to Wired magazine since its inception. His most recent book,
Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next Fifty Years, was published 12/02.