Hajoe Moderegger & Franziska Lamprecht

b. Easton, PA in  1964 & Ilmenau, Germany 1975,

Live and work in Queens, NY & Mannheim, Germany.

Second Life Dumpster, 2007-2009

4096 sqm in SL, avatars, decay script, decay script dispensers, unaccounted amount of trash objects, data log, random trash heap materializations in First Life

For the last five years eteam has bought random parcels of land (site unseen) on ebay, ranging from pieces of desert in the US to an allotment garden in Germany. The duo's work often revolves around land-use issues and other socio-spatial interventions, and last year they purchased 4096 square meters of space in Second Life. In Second Life each avatar has a trash folder. Items  that get deleted end up in that folder by default. The trash folder has to get emptied as often as possible, otherwise the avatars performance might diminish. But, where do deleted things end up? What are those things? To find out eteam operated a plein-air public dumpster for the duration of one year. They developed a decay script to deal with space restrictions and recorded the activities at the dumpster in a daily log:

http://www.meineigenheim.org/dumpster_log/doku.php

From time to time the Second Life dumpster materializes in First Life in the form of random trash heaps reminding us that objects and lives in worlds that copy each other are often just versions and ways to search for lost originals.

www.meineigenheim.org  

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Second Life Dumpster, 2007-2009
4096 sqm in SL, avatars, decay script, decay script dispensers, unaccounted amount of trash objects, data log, random trash heap materializations in First Life