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Spiros Hadjidjianos / Network Time
Spiros Hadjidjianos / Network Time
Spiros Hadjidjianos / Network Time
Spiros Hadjidjianos / Network Time
Spiros Hadjidjianos / Network Time
Spiros Hadjidjianos / Network Time
Spiros Hadjidjianos / Network Time

Spiros Hadjidjianos

Network Time

€12,00
14 × 20 cm, 48 p, ills colour & bw, paperback, English
design: Studio Jurgen Maelfeyt
edition of 300
September 2014

Contributions by Elvia Wilk, Graham Harman and Adrian MackenzieIn 1959, the American engineer Paul Baran was charged by the RAND Corporation with the task of designing a telecommunications network resilient enough to survive a nuclear attack. A year later Baran published his proposed solution: a network of distributed nodes without a centralized core. He argued that a distributed network would be indestructible because the connections between its nodes were redundant; multiple connections safeguard a system from total destruction if individual nodes are damaged. A decade later, Baran’s distributed relay node architecture formed the conceptual framework for the first system of inter-networked computers, which would become the basis for today’s decentralized wireless internet. (Elvia Wilk)

Spiros Hadjidjanos, (°1978, Athens, Greece) is a visual artist who lives and works in Berlin. His work spans across different media and is informed by his critical reflection on technological processes, dialectic configurations of natural materials and his personal biography. He has created set-design for theaters in Germany and has exhibited his work in galleries and institutions worldwide.