The Hiroshima Project is an information project: it links all WWW sites in the world which have information about the atomic bomb - it does not add any new information. It juxtaposes contradictory information, connects opposing opinions, and unites complementary parts. It leads the visitor systematically along hundreds of worldwide links.
The Hiroshima Project touches all subtopics of the Media and Ethics symposium. I would like to address these various aspects with the Hiroshima Project as a starting point:
what space is the Hiroshima Project operating in?
what kind of project is it? art? science? information ? network?
or are these categories no longer useful? and why?
how should such a work be interpreted?
The Hiroshima Project lays bare an inherent connection between technology and politics. Without computers, the first nuclear weapons could not have been developed. Nuclear weapons are technology. The development of communications technologies served military strategies in the first place. The Internet was created for military purposes. Did the information explosion already start when the first atomic bomb exploded? What is the relation between nuclear technology and the information explosion? What are the political and ethical implications of the information explosion? I would like to address these questions, and discuss the implications they have for our use and interpretation of media technology.