Residual Lines – Fragility of Knowledge

https://www.creativeapplications.net/project/residual-lines-fragility-of-knowledge

“Created by Lauren Walker at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (Interface Design), Residual Lines is a redaction machine that visualizes the loss of new knowledge tied to recent research grant cuts.

The work focuses on Wikipedia articles related to defunded research topics, printing and altering them in real time. A pen plotter crosses out text corresponding to edits made after the funding cuts, with each crossed-out line marking an addition or revision—highlighting an evolving, and now potentially endangered, body of public knowledge.”