Stefan Tiefengraber

1011-1695-1-SPVisitors of the website www.ugsd.net can trigger six hammers and drop them onto a server that is located in the exhibition.

This server hosts the website, which also shows a video stream to follow what’s happening with the piece. The installation ends when the server is destroyed and thus can not host the website any more.

The internet is a continually growing network of servers spread all over the world. On the one hand are the users and on the other hand the providers, supplying the network. Usually, it is just possible for computer viruses and very qualified users to attack and destroy highly protected servers that are locked in well-secured places.

With “User Generated Server Destruction” every user has the possibility to erase one of this servers and thereby shrink the worldwide network for a short moment.

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