1. Storing the Self
On the Social Production of Data
@macroscopist
@jldevicente
José Luis de Vicente Futuros Possíveis
www.medialab-prado.es USP | Sao Paulo BR
Barcelona ES 05 / 10 / 2012

2. ONE: GEOGRAPHIES OF DATA

4. THE INTERNET RUNS ON COFFEE

5. GOOGLE DATA CENTER, DALLES, OREGON (EEUU)

6. QUINCY, WASHINGTON

8. FACEBOOK
MICROSOFT

9. 30 MILLION WATTS

10. 1.8 TRILLION GIGABYTES IN 2011

11. 75% BY CONSUMERS

12. Q: On your servers, do you save everything ever entered into
Facebook at any time, whether or not it’s been deleted, untagged, and
so forth?

13. Q: On your servers, do you save everything ever entered into
Facebook at any time, whether or not it’s been deleted, untagged, and
so forth?
A: That is essentially correct at this moment. The only reason we’re
changing that is for performance reasons. When you make any sort of
interaction on Facebook — upload a photo, click on somebody’s
profile, update your status, change your profile information —

14. Q: On your servers, do you save everything ever entered into
Facebook at any time, whether or not it’s been deleted, untagged, and
so forth?
A: That is essentially correct at this moment. The only reason we’re
changing that is for performance reasons. When you make any sort of
interaction on Facebook — upload a photo, click on somebody’s
profile, update your status, change your profile information —
Q: When you say “click on somebody’s profile,” you mean you save
our viewing history?

15. Q: On your servers, do you save everything ever entered into
Facebook at any time, whether or not it’s been deleted, untagged, and
so forth?
A: That is essentially correct at this moment. The only reason we’re
changing that is for performance reasons. When you make any sort of
interaction on Facebook — upload a photo, click on somebody’s
profile, update your status, change your profile information —
Q: When you say “click on somebody’s profile,” you mean you save
our viewing history?
A: That’s right. How do you think we know who your best friends are?
THE RUMPUS: “Conversations About the Internet #5: Anonymous Facebook Employee”

19. TWO: THE CORRESPONDENCE OF AN ENTIRE PEOPLE

21. ALFRED VAIL, TELEGRAPH PIONEER

22. Fancy some future Macaulay rummaging among such a store, and
painting therefrom the salient features of the social and commercial
life of England in the XIX century.
What might not be gathered some day in the XXI century from a record
of the correspondence of an entire people?
ALFRED VAIL: “The Electromagnetic Telegraph”

23. Fancy some future Macaulay rummaging among such a store, and
painting therefrom the salient features of the social and commercial
life of England in the XIX century.
What might not be gathered some day in the XXI century from a record
of the correspondence of an entire people?
...messages to and from merchants, members of congress, officers of
the government, banks, brokers, police officers, parties, who by
agreement had met each other at the two stations, or had been sent for
by one of the parties; items of news, election returns, announcement
of deaths, inquiries respecting the health of families and individuals,
the daily proceedings of the senate and house of representatives,
orders for goods, inquiries respecting the sailing of vessels,
proceedings of cases in the various courts, summoning of witnesses,
messages in relation to special and express trains, invitations, the
receipt of money at one station and its payment at the other....
ALFRED VAIL: “The Electromagnetic Telegraph”

24. ERIK KESSEL FOAM GALLERY

25. CHRISTOPHER BAKER HELLO WORLD

26. JONATHAN HARRIS WE FEEL FINE

27. ZACH GAGE MY BEST DAY EVER

28. NEW YORK VS. THE WORLD
MONTH-BY-MONTH LISTENING TRENDS FOR NEW YORK IN 2009*
DEC 08 JAN 09 FEB 09 MAR 09 APR 09 MAY 09 JUN 09 JUL 09 AUG 09 SEP 09
American band Animal Collective get love at home and
abroad. Currently based in NYC, they have a constant, After appearances on
mighty presence in the city’s music scene all year long. David Letterman to promote t
Tagged “experimental” by fans on Last.fm, they’re the only OCT ‘08 FEB - MAR ‘09 NOV ‘09
Decemberists continue to rea
band of this appellation to make the Top 40 this year.
Yeah Yeah Yeah’s It’s Blitz! gets leaked on OCT ‘08 MAR ‘09 MAY ‘09 NOV ‘09
release date gets pushed forward to the Grizzly bear first make a blip in March Massachusetts
when Veckatimest (like the Yeah Yeah in the New Yor
the top 10 for the year. Yeahs album of the year) is leaked online. the time Mann
us, (released
omotion is officially released and they stay on the Reeling’ starts
r’. Selling NYC radar for the rest of the year, winning
rst week, them #21 on the Last.fm Top 40 chart.
sten but their
M. WARD REGINA SPEKTOR
ew year while THE DECEMBERISTS
ake waves in
THE DECEMBERISTS
LADY GAGA BRAND NEW
BAT FOR LASHES
THE DECEMBERISTS
YEAH YEAH YEAHS
METRIC
GRIZZLY BEAR YEAH YEAH YEAHS
LADY GAGA
ANDREW BIRD ANIMAL COLLECTIVE
LADY GAGA
KANYE WEST
T.I.
GRIZZLY BEAR PHOENIX
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE PASSION PIT
PASSION PIT JAY-Z
DIRTY PROJECTORS
PHOENIX DISCOVERY
THE KILLERS
LILY ALLEN ST. VINCENT
MOS DEF WILCO THE XX
LOS CAMPESINOS! THE LONELY ISLAND CAMERA OBSCURA THE DEAD WEATHER YACHT
THE ALL AMERICAN REJECTS GUNS N’ ROSES BAT FOR LASHES
BRAND NEW
PLACEBO
A DAY TO REMEMBER KELLY CLARKSON REGINA SPEKTOR
THE LONELY ISLAND
THE LONELY ISLAND
U2 ANIMAL COLLECTIVE ALL TIME LOW
LA ROUX
THE KILLERS RÖYKSOPP THE KILLERS
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE
YEAH YEAH YEAHS LA ROUX
BRITNEY SPEARS LILY ALLEN LADY GAGA LADY GAGA
BRITNEY SPEARS
ARCTIC MONKEYS
LADY GAGA
GREEN DAY
MUSE
NICKELBACK
KANYE WEST
PHOENIX
THE PRODIGY DEPECHE MODE
EMINEM GRIZZLY BEAR
ENTER SHIKARI
JAY-Z
PEARL JAM
OCT ‘08 MAY ‘09 JUL ‘09 NOV ‘09
Phoenix, one of the few European bands OCT ‘08 SE

30. JO WOOD MAPPING LONDON BIKE TRANSPORTATION

31. THREE: ART AND BUSINESS OF STORING YOURSELF

33. Nine
65
3
4
16 4
Salad Apple Twelve
One Graffiti
Spicy
Back Forty 28 Twenty 24
Seven
Time & Words NICHOLAS FELTON FELTRON REPORT 2009

34. NICHOLAS FELTON FELTRON REPORT 2010

35. THE MOST DOCUMENTED LIFE IN HISTORY

36. DIETER ROTH DIARIES

37. TEHCHING HSIEH ONE YEAR PERFORMANCE 1980-1981

38. HORST ADEMEIT

47. FOUR : RECONSTRUCT, ACCESS, ACTIVATE

49. THE BIGGEST PUZZLE IN HISTORY

50. MAX SCHREMS, 24, HOLDS HIS FACEBOOK HISTORY

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53. Obrigado pela sua atenção.
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