tagny's manual instructions

Instructions for the archivist of the future:

Quick Time Memory
A series of QuickTime videos taken during the performance event ( March 3, 2007)

This series of QuickTime videos is to be migrated through multiple forms through duration of time. The first evolution of video is to be archived online via Blogger (http://quicktimememory.blogspot.com) and You Tube (http://www.youtube.com/theparasites.com) as of March 16, 2007. The series is to be saved for unlimited access and reproduction by the public domain until the two networked entities upgrade to such an extent that the html code becomes obsolete. For all research purposes and public exhibition of these works, it is recommended that viewers access the blogs (and add comments) via wireless or land line internet connections found in cafes, private homes, public institutions, etc. Printing a take away card with the blog address for the curious audience/visitor is ideal for the dissemination of the video archives.

Before the inevitable extinction of the online archive and QuickTime video format codex, migration to Beta tape and DVD with original codex for QuickTime is recommended. When video is no longer conserved on tape and a more stable of form of storage is invented, then all the video clips may be migrated to the new media. The most important aspect of the work is to emulate, as closely as possible the scale, speed, sound and resolution quality of the QuickTime video. However, changes that occur through migration of forms, is not detrimental to the work.

With the change in conservation methods of new media and performance works, it is conceivable that there will be a major shift in the role of the archivists and artist. The creative problem solving talents required for solving current issues of migration of form, concept and media may mean that archivists will no longer mimic and conserve the authenticity of art, but manifest it. The distinct and separate set of expertise and roles currently performed by artist and conservationist may no longer be the norm in the near future.

If this is the case, then the QuickTime video is to be migrated through changing forms indefinitely until biotechnologies may be safely used to activate artistic works in the cellular memory of human bodies. It is conceivable that this integration of art and science may take a duration of time that exceeds the current temporal frame of the Gregorian calendar.

For the conservation of this work, the Emiliania Huxleyi virus is the desired archival medium. Currently (as of 2007), the Emiliania Huxleyi virus 86 is thought to potentially extend the life of its host, the marine algae called Emiliania Huxleyi that bloom on the oceans surface and absorb carbon dioxide from the earth’s atmosphere. The virus seems to postpone cell death through the production of ceramide, and to control climate through the production of a gas called Dimenthyl Sulphite, helping clouds to form.

The transduction of digital algorithms conserved from the QuickTime videos with the genetic coding from the 86 virus, may be created in the form of a vaccine or an oral pill. Testing for such an archive must not pose a threat of harm to living beings. Upon inoculation or ingestion, humans may be able to experience the sensation of feeling and smelling cold winter ocean air, hearing the sound of waves and seagulls, feeling the duration of time pass. This archive of the future may prove particularly evocative when experienced in the region of Halifax where the event took place- a region that may have changed substantially with global climate change.

These instructions are based on speculative prediction. If these conditions are not and cannot be actualized, then the work is to dissolve and deteriorate into obsolescence.