Title |
The SKOR Codex |
Author |
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Date |
2012 |
Description |
The SKOR Codex is a printed book which will be sent to different locations on earth in the year 2012. It contains binary encoded image and sound files selected to portray the diversity of life and culture at the Foundation for Art and Public Domain (SKOR), and is intended for any intelligent terrestrial life form, or for future humans, who may find it. The files are protected from bitrot, software decay and hardware failure via a transformation from magnetic transitions on a disk to ink on paper, safe for centuries. Instructions in a symbolic language explain the origin of the book and indicate how the content is to be decoded. La Société Anonyme noted that "the package will be encountered and the book decoded only if there will be advanced civilizations on earth in the far future. But the launching of this 'bottle' into the cosmic 'ocean' says something very hopeful about art on this planet." Thus the record is best seen as a time capsule and a statement rather than an attempt to preserve SKOR for future art historians. |
 SKOR managing director Tati Freeke-Suwarganda hands The SKOR Codex to Tom van Gestel. |
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URL |
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Medium |
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Edition |
8 |
Pages |
304 |
Download |
the-skor-codex-web.pdf (7.2mb) |
Event |
ODI Summit 2013 in London. 2013-10-29. URL: summit.theodi.org/ |
Related |
“Book encodes modern culture into binary patterns as time capsule for the future” by Jacob Kastrenakes, The Verge, October 29, 2013 |
Related |
“The SKOR Codex launched into the future. Interview with La Société Anonyme” by Annet Dekker, Open!, October 17, 2014 |
Rights |
Public domain |
Keywords |
bookness, preservation, public domain |
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441 |