Print the internet

http://printingtheinternet.tumblr.com/

LABOR, UbuWeb and Kenneth Goldsmith invite you to participate in the first-ever attempt to print out the entire internet.

The idea is simple: print out as much as of the web as you want — be it one sheet or a truckload — send it to Mexico City, and we’ll display it in the gallery for the duration of the exhibition, which runs from July 26 to August 30, 2013.

The process is entirely open: If it exists online and is printed out, it will be accepted. Every contributor will be listed as a participating artist in the show and will be listed on this Tumblr.

What you decide to print out is up to you — as long as it exists somewhere online, it’s in. We’re not looking for creative interpretations of the project. We don’t want objects. We just want shitloads of paper. We’re literally looking for folks to print out the entire internet. We have over 500 square meters of space to fill, with ceilings that are over 6 meters high.

There are many ways to go about this: you can act alone (print out your own blog, Gmail inbox or spam folder) or you could organize a group of friends to print out a particular corner of the internet, say, all of Wikipedia, the entire New York Times archive, every dossier leaked by Wikileaks for starters. The more the better.

Print out the internet. Post it to Mexico City.

Send your printouts to LABOR in Mexico City by July 15th:

LABOR

Francisco Ramírez #5

Col. Daniel Garza

Del. Miguel Hidalgo 11830

México D.F.

HI I AM TOOL

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"HITS CTRL+P"

lol, when I was in college the whole fucking computer lab was "printing the internet."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/print-this-web-page-mail-it-to-mexico-citys-labor-gallery-make-art/2013/07/26/534e2582-f320-11e2-ae43-b31dc363c3bf_story.html

I like ubuweb - not so much goldsmith's other endeavours - but i don't like this idea. It seems reactionary, not radical, to convert new media to old, especially since this project is basically trying to chip away at the ecological benefits of the internet.

F-

Sorry my response was to the OP

This is fucking stupid and a disgusting waste of resources

yeah it's pretty awful

They should do a transcribe the internet

The internet on a grain of rice, that I'd like to see

Plenty of rice in Mexico, this dude should get on it already

This is kind of stupid, but I think it's silly to get all bent out of shape about the "waste of resources" as though we're not all doing completely frivolous shit with plastic and paper and fossil fuels on a daily basis, or as though it's not a waste of resources to construct multi-ton metal sculptures and transport them around the globe.

This is sort of ostentatious in how its wasting resources -- like, purposefully undoing the paper saving element of the internet. Maybe thats good though bc it throws other, more accepted forms of wastefulness into relief...

as though we're not all doing completely frivolous shit with plastic and paper and fossil fuels on a daily basis,

The difference is, this is unneccessary and also stupid

its not even cool

they should sort out the duplicates and have a "profiler" help to figure out the kind of people who are participating in this project, maybe there is something interesting to learn in there.

this is just dumb lazy idea

if you really cared, you wouldn't post to this thread and then there would be less stuff to print out, just sayin

save the guy some ink and stop posting already

too late Nick B

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it's like, the start of an idea but now that they are talking in tons of paper they should do something with it; what are people's perception of the internet? why they went "there" instead of selecting something else? is it reactive, what part of it is due to marketing, what view of the world is implied by their selection, what theories could be used @ this blablabla dot html

i hope they don't forget about ilx

i just want a scientific confirmation that people are boring.

i hope they don't forget about ilx

it would be ironic if he missed you

i just want a scientific confirmation that people are boring.

― Sébastien, Wednesday, July 31, 2013 5:30 PM (56 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Have you read ILM?

google should get in there and scan the whole thing , to facilitate the people's pataphysical elucubrations.

goldsmith is favorite post-internet poet and i tend to like everything he does but i think this project is just stupid

he's not a poet he's a transcriber

ok

Kenny G is the fucking Courtney Love of literary con men

http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/wasting-time-on-the-internet

http://www.cbc.ca/player/Radio/Q/ID/2608677900/