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Over the years, physical diaries, photo albums and shoe boxes have kept our personal memories safe.

A generation from now, printed matter might not exist. We are already relying on hard drives, websites and mobile phones to store our digital memories. Our lives will be downloaded as a matter of course for future generations to examine, adore or even ignore.

Lose your phone and you lose more than your handset and your SIM card: pictures of loved ones, video clips from a happy moment and those texts you could never delete. These cherished experiences face extinction without a safe home. Bluebook from O2 is a natural step in memory gathering – free online storage for numbers, texts and photos. You can dictate your life to Bluebook, so nothing is lost.

Related Link:
O2 Memory Project
www.o2memoryproject.com
www.o2memoryproject.com/#about

Michael Takeo Magruder + Drew Baker + David Steele – 02.2008

In the 1st century BC, Roman writer, architect and engineer Vitruvius codified specific building formulae based on the guiding principles of strength, utility and beauty. He believed that architecture was intrinsically linked to nature and was a human imitation of cosmic order. The most well-known interpretation of this postulate is the Vitruvian Man by Leonardo da Vinci in which the male form is depicted in unity with the square and circle – representing material and spiritual existence respectively.

This tripartite union of human body, material form and spiritual essence maintains relevance within the current climate of distributed presences, mixed realities and internet cultures. The proliferation of synthetic worlds and virtual constructs engendered by our ubiquitous technology provides new realms for both actual existence and creative exploration.

The Vitruvian World is a multi-nodal and recursive artwork that embodies the principles of Vitruvius within this context. Existing in three distinct yet interconnected spaces, the work simultaneously embraces the virtual, the physical, and the network connecting them.

Related Link:
The Vitruvian World
transition.turbulence.org/Works/vitruvianworld/