This installation can take many forms; providing that the text is projected onto a blank page in a book. The text states “ERROR 404 PAGE NOT FOUND”; a common HTTP error message that can be seen online when a web page isn’t available; it could have moved, been deleted or never have existed in the first place. Similarly to the intentionally blank page in an exam paper there is a need to reassure the audience that there is a reason behind a lack of content. People aren’t comfortable with blank space, there always seems to be the need to fill it with something. I have appropriated the message and swapped an online web page for the page of a book similarly to how I have appropriated the intentionally blank page for walls. The text flickers to hint at the technological source of the text, but the text itself is a play on words in the context of a book. This type of error code out-dates the technology of the book so to see them together is a clash of different worlds. The flickering text also draws attention to the medium of the text and its temporal state in the book as well as the fragile nature of language and its capacity to be stripped of its original meaning and placed elsewhere; perhaps the text knows that it is not in its ‘correct’ place and is flickering as a result of not computing with the paper pages.
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AuthorThird Year BA Hons Fine Art student studying at Falmouth University Archives
April 2017
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