Vast and Dire Beast

Okay I know the self-erasing floppy thing was hyperbole on my part, but it’s a thing that existed and has been lumped in with other things and to me there’s an intense aesthetic difference between:

  • Guy Maddin’s Seances project which used a stochastic process to splice together bits of film, postprocessing, narrative text and music markov-chain style from a random (possibly time-based) seed and came by its ephemerality ‘honestly’ as part of how it was made
  • Self-erasing media that tries to add an enforced ephemerality onto something that by its nature resists it.
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