Cyber Ruins

Part 3: Adjective + Noun

In late December 2020 i came across a strange website on the web, half broken, half working—Under-Construction-gifs all over the site. An astonishing cyber ruin. Inspired by this I started to construct my own visual cyber ruins, which form part 1 and part 2* of this project. Part 3: Adjective + Noun presents the research part of the project in form of various screenshots.

Cyber Ruins (3) Adjective + Noun
Book, laser print, 40 pages, 9×14 cm, open edition, 2021

screen video of a website around 2003 with broken image icons flying around

another example, broken images but working javascript animation

* it would be easy to just hyperlink the pages now, no? I think it’s more fun to send you there with a vague guidance and the true cyber ruins mood (looking for something, not sure what exactly): Part 1 and 2 of the ruins research can be found somewhere in the backyard of this website.

black laser print on orange neon paper. A deformed map indicates the location of a place that is labelled with typical social media tags

Cyber Cave Internet Cafe. 21 likes. 2 were here.
Digital Collage, Laser print, 2021

black laser print on yellow neon paper. A group of people with white coats standing around a machine, operating the machine. The image is distorted and the faces wobble in glitch

Behind the Cave (operators)
The science engineers test a new thinking coil machine. They meet on every second Monday.
Digital Collage, Laser print, 2021

black laser print on pink neon paper. A waiter stands behind an old wooden counter in a coffeehouse. A labyrinth world from a cyber game is next to the person and also overlaying the image

Next Please!
Every customer is served with (some) dignity. You’re allowed to bring games to the cybercave.
Digital Collage, Laser print, 2021

black laser print on green neon paper. A person wearing a training suit is sitting in a plastic chair outside a cafe. The cafe name CYBERCAVE is written on its marquise. Old desktop computers wait for more visitors on the tables outside.

In good weather you can also sit outside the cybercave.
Digital Collage, Laser print, 2021

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