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Thank you for your submission to CLOG: World Trade Center. We quite liked your idea, and while we haven’t yet figured out the best way to do this, we’d like to see if we can include it in the issue. You mentioned presenting the links as a series of QR codes, which may be one way to do it. Could you perhaps mock that up, so we can have that to look at when we do our second round of editorial review? _ Julia

Memories can be constructed in part or as a whole. In part by assembling details of an aspect of an object in question or as a whole by laying hold of whatsoever can be found, pieces ideally that later assumes a recognisable form. Both tasks are iterative or partially interdependent. To find parts to the whole is create a framework in navigating an identified archive. A possible narrative should reconstruct that which has been seeming lost as it’s no longer available in a format it was earlier accessible. To recreate the memory of a contemporary condition is to approach known fields where instruments of recollection are stored. Images, sound, text and its amalgamation the video are artefacts of this modernity. Social networks are the recognised silos and Youtube is among one of several available information repositories to amass and make available a public archive. Relative to this archive is an assortment that gets assembled every time a keyword search is rendered. From this formation emerges a narrative, the Youtube playlist. The presented collection tires to observe the situation of WTC as a case-study for a possible form of memory to highlight its 28year period existence. Three stages are identified to this form, a) the introductory phase of establishing an identity, b) the experiential phase wherein this identity is explored and c) the surreal realm of the identity. In these three scenarios is the becoming both what is lost and how it has enabled living within itself and its context at large. The playlist, the derivation of excavating an identified strata is now the fresh object to enter into public consumption in regards to that which was WTC 1973 – 2011. The pattern located is subjective to rules imposed on its revelation and is to be seen as such.

Building the World Trade Center and Twin Towers - Full version

WakeUpCall4World [Dec 14, 2010]

Tightrope walk across World Trade Center (1974)

Mike Gardner [Dec 27, 2008]

World Trade Center Public Opening Hours Film

TECHSMEX [Apr 15, 2007]

Downtown New York World Trade Centre 1970s

James Cheeseman [Oct 14, 2011]

WORLD TRADE CENTER SUMMER OF 1988

Jose Rodriguez [Jul 9, 2010]

World Trade Center home movie on a clear day, 1991. Unedited.

cillanthe1st [Dec 7, 2010]

Windows on the World. World trade center wedding 1992.

Craig S [July 6, 2012]

Inside World Trade Center pre 911 ! footage from 1996

drum clown [Jun 22, 2012]

Ronald Segerius filmed the Twin Towers in New York

EtrofOnaip [May 7, 2007]

World Trade Center : the twin towers (1998)

a music lover in Paris [May 8, 2007]

World Trade Center Elevator to the top, Sept, 2000

majorleaguepinscom’s channel [April 15, 2007]

WORLD TRADE CENTER VISIT BY JIM & LINA 8/13/01

TheJimmyAllen [Sep 4, 2009]

The World Trade Center Sketchup

Hugh Nab [May 19, 2014]

World Trade Center (Twin Towers) before 9/11 (outside and inside)

KAWASAKI1994AD [May 15, 2012]

LOST Frames of the WTC UFO Sighting REVEALED

kmarinas86 [Mar 27, 2009]

The curated list was available in its displayed form, first posted and submitted for review on JUNE 23, 2014. For this update of the text two videos [1st and 14th] have lost access from its published position. It’s imperative for the other material too should dislocate from their respective links. The process of disintegration of the memory of memory is going to be observed. After more than 80% of the video’s fall out of place a reproduction of the first state is proposed though conditioning a method to map both, the proposed concept and the iterative state of disintegration. This is but one probability. An alternate is to constantly update the QRCodes if the videos keep popping up at other locations or if it can be substituted with alternate content similar in material. Memory in essence is an agenda how this is captured and subjected for consumption is the thesis.

CONTRIBUTORS

Michael Arad, Pep Avilés, Dorin Baul, Ashley Bigham, Kyle Branchesi, Shane Reiner-Roth, Jing Yan, Karla Cavarra Britton, Archie Lee Coates IV, Carlos Diniz, Adam Frampton, Jeffrey Franklin, Richard Garlock, Christina Gray, Donna Grunewald, Henry Guthard, Dale Allen Gyure, Matthew Hall, Erik William Herrmann, Robert Herrmann, Adam Himes, Julia van den Hout, José Antonio Tallón Iglesias, C.B. Johnson, Rennie Jones, Joss Kiely, James Klauder, Stephanie Lee, Eric Lipton, Thomas Lozada, Osyp Martyniuk, Isaac Mathew, Kyle May, Guy Nordenson, Alex Pasternack, Jacob Reidel, Leslie E. Robertson, Anthony W. Robins, Jonathan A. Scelsa, Brett H. Schneider, Seth Weine, Human Wu

INFORMATION

English, 2014

168 Pages

Black & White w/ Single Spot Color & Clear Gloss Foil

Full Color Plates Insert

Comes with Bookmark

60 Illustrations

Softcover, 5.5 x 8.5 in.

ISBN 978-0-9904224-1-9