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in Beyond Reason: Ordure (2003); a file directory titled by its subdomain
“dump.ordure.org,” comprising at that time correspondence, emails,
links, logfiles; and two works by software artist Adrian Ward. The first is
Image::Copy (2001) (Figure 9) through which the visitor selects, by
clicking, any 32x32 portion of an available image, which they would later
receive by email upon entering an address, leaving only a black square
void in its place.
The second, Dust (2001) (Figure 10) similarly explores deterioration
but this time as decay rather than removal by presenting a duplicated
image side-by-side, purporting one to be the original, while the other
slowly turns to dust incrementally in relation to the number of times it is
viewed. Further works and projects by the Museum would appear over
time extending beyond the online, digital space into offline performances,
events and interactive installations. The aesthetic, conceptual and material
principles behind Dust, for example, became Ordure::real-time, described
Figure 11: The Museum of Ordure. (2001)
at the Museum of Ordure website (Figure 11) as a large-scale projection Ordure::real-time [Screenshot], 291 Gallery, London.
of the same image which responds to the presence of visitors moving Retrieved from http://www.ordure.org/collection/ordu-
pixels from one location to another, and then noumenonologically “rewrites re-real-time/.
itself back to its original state” once the visitor leaves. More projects and
events followed in a range of galleries and festivals, as did donations to
the collection through its iteration as the UK Museum of Ordure (UKMO)
hosted at the domain “www.museum-ordure.org.uk.”
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