web domain archive
Scifideals.com is a project that combines every website under that domain in history and compresses its timelines. Stripped of a future, the past of scifideals.com is scattered and only documented on the Internet Archive. What does a domain have to say that started out as a science fiction web shop, changed into a strange science blog, a poetic car repair shop, a Chinese steel manufacturer and, of course, an adult video link distributor?
Browsing through the remains of the different websites that inhabited scifideals.com, the work pulls their artefacts into physical space. Mapping out the complex personality of scifideals.com, the project is not only about a domain's fate, but in search of what is left of the internet: Broken links, missing images, unfinished business.
18x ceramic tiles, raspberry pi, screens, 3x nintendo DS lite, Audioguide / Video / text from Scifideals.com, floorplan
Scifideals.com is presented as part of the Graduation Exhibition 2026 for Design Art and Technology @ ArtEZ Arnhem in physical space, represented by a floorplan and 3 Audioguides themed HOUSE, HOME and STAGE. They tell the story of Scifideals.com, as it was in the past, present and future.
scifideals.com is [un]finished...
Website: www.scifideals.com
Image Credits: Sara Margarida Gonçalves Soares Audioguide voice: Sara Margarida Gonçalves Soares