Akademie der Künste Berlin - Broken Machines and Wild Imaginings 2023
The time has come to start taking control over your own memory and to secure it for generations to come. At Total Earth, we believe that personal data is not a commodity to be bought and sold, but the bricks from which to build a collective future for all – uniting past, present and future. Our process is simple yet powerful, starting with your registration on Total Earth. By centralizing and securing your personal data on your own eternal drive, you will have full access to your processed memory, without fear of anyone else accessing it without your consent. We guarantee that our services are and will stay free of charge for your entire lifetime, enabling you to access and browse your very own Total Memory at any time. And this is just the beginning: When physical death occurs, your entire memory will be transferred to Total Cloud where it will be processed by our open source "soul" algorithm and resurrected into a collective afterlife. Our ultimate goal is The Common Task. We believe that organizing the vast private datascapes into a collective memory is the key to solving all urgent problems of the future in time. Therefore, we aim for digital immortality of all users. Ensuring a total unification into a divine collective body, the DAO DEI ,which acts as a democratic parliament of time forms. We believe that by collecting and reorganizing individual memories, we can build a fair, just, and foresighted society. A truly socialist collective, uniting as an eternal workforce in the afterlife. By inheriting your data legacy to the common good, you are laying the foundation for eternal wisdom. Join us at Total Earth to forecast our shared future and to fight for a world without oblivion. Let us fight for a reality, not dictated by those currently in power but learning from every single fail of our common ancestors to share knowledge and power with all users to come.
Total.Earth is based on the ideas of Cosmism and God-Building, influential among Russian and Ukrainian revolutionaries at the turn of the century. The concept of “Cosmism” was first published after the death of Nikolai Fyodorov, who demanded immortality for all and the resurrection and unification of all previous generations in space. The “God Builders” among Anatoly Lunacharsky and Alexander Bogdanov* co-founded the Bolsheviks, but unlike Lenin, intended to build up communism as a religion worshipping the untapped potential of humanity instead of God. Anton Steenbock and Peter Behrbohm fuse elements of startup fair stands, space capsules and shrines into a pavilion selling a sophisticated business model that aims to fulfil the “Divine Common Task”. *The Ukrainian and Russian thinkers mentioned here aspired to unify all past generations, regardless of their origin, skin colour or gender in space. They were collaboratively creating a just society without classes and hierarchies, which could not be more different from what the Russian President has been violently putting into practice since the invasion of Ukraine.
Total.Earth was developed for the exhibition "Broken Machines and Wild Imaginings" @ Akademie der Künste Berlin
Curated by: Clara Herrmann
Curatorial Assistance: Nataša Vukajlović
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