October 18, 2003
!Alerting Infrastructure! - 2003
Website Hit Counter that Destroys a Building.
Project by Jonah Brucker-Cohen
Link: Visit CityArtsCentre.ie to register a hit and contribute to the building's destruction.
Description
Alerting Infrastructure is a physical hit counter that translates hits to the website of the City Arts Centre in Dublin, Ireland into interior damage of the physical building. The focus of the piece is to amplify the concern that physical spaces are slowly losing ground to their virtual counterparts. The amount of structural damage to the building directly correlates to the amount of exposure and attention the website gets, thus exposing the physical structure's temporal existence.
