Remote Install – Installation that remotely installs itself in the gallery

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Created by Julian Oliver and installed at the recent NODE Forum in Frankfurt, Remote Install is an installation that remotely installs itself over the network and presents its own installation process as an artefact in itself.

Distributed as a stripped down, customised GNU/Linux Operating System, the gallery merely needs to copy a single file onto a USB stick, plug it into a computer on site and boot it on the day of the opening. Remote Install then analyses its network context and the amount of space given to it - the free space on the USB stick. It then logs into the artist’s server and creates a file of random binary data to exactly fill this space and proceeds to download it over the course of the entire exhibition. An algorithm ensures the last byte is downloaded on the last second of the exhibition.

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