TheInternet Archive , a digital program library based out of San Francisco , contains book of account , film , euphony , and roughly 332 billion World Wide Web Page saved from net history . The not-for-profit ’s solicitation is an invaluable tool for researchers , but for the preceding two years , it has also provided some intake to artists . AsFast Companyreports , the Internet Archive ’s 2018artist in residenceexhibition opens in San Francisco on Saturday , July 14 .
For its second annual visual arts residence , the Internet Archive ask round artistsChris Sollars , Taravat Talepasand , andMieke Marpleto refer to its World Wide Web archive ( a.k.a . the Wayback Machine ) as well as its media archive while building a dead body of work over the class of a year .
Marple , an creative person from Palo Alto , California , created a serial publication of illustrations base on a Facebook quiz titled “ What Abomination from the Garden of Earthly delight Are You ? ” She find ikon that enliven the project ’s ocular style from books in the archive ’s library .
San Francisco artist Chris Sollars build a multimedia exhibition meant to evoke the Bay Area in the 1960s . It includes retro silver screen saver , lit on psychedelic drug , and live recording of the Grateful Dead .
The third artist , Taravat Talepasand , the girl of Persian immigrant , was born in the U.S. during the Iranian Revolution . She used the archive to progress a mini archive hold back magazines , propaganda , and post-horse from pre - revolutionary Iran . From that , she drew inhalation to make an incidental series of paintings and draftsmanship .
After launching July 14 , the expo will be available to regard at 1275 Minnesota Street , Suite 105 , in San Francisco through August 11 . If you ’re face for inspiration of your own , artist and non - artists alike can look the Internet Archive forrare materialsanytime for free .
[ h / tFast Company ]
