{"id":368,"date":"2008-05-02T19:06:49","date_gmt":"2008-05-03T02:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasasmuth.art\/?p=368"},"modified":"2012-03-20T17:56:24","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T00:56:24","slug":"tantalum-memorial-reconstruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasasmuth.art\/?p=368","title":{"rendered":"Tantalum Memorial: Reconstruction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tantalum Memorial: Reconstruction is a  sculptural and technology project that commemorates the 4 million people  killed during the civil war in the Congo. much of this conflict is  directly attributable to the battle over the mining right for a high  priced ore that is key in all contemporary electronic technologies,  coltan.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-368 gallery-columns-5 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a 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href='https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasasmuth.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tm02.jpg?fit=680%2C453&amp;ssl=1' title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasasmuth.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tm02.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasasmuth.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tm02.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasasmuth.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tm02.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasasmuth.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tm02.jpg?zoom=3&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasasmuth.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tm03.jpg?fit=1556%2C354&amp;ssl=1' title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasasmuth.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tm03.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasasmuth.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tm03.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasasmuth.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tm03.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasasmuth.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tm03.jpg?zoom=3&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasasmuth.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tm04.jpg?fit=680%2C453&amp;ssl=1' title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasasmuth.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tm04.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasasmuth.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tm04.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasasmuth.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tm04.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasasmuth.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tm04.jpg?zoom=3&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Tantalum Memorial: Reconstruction was exhibited in Berlin Germany at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transmediale.de\/\">transmediale09 Festival<\/a>, where it won the first prize, <a href=\"http:\/\/tagr.tv\/2009\/tantalum-memorial\">AWARD 09<\/a>, for the entire festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tantalum Memorial: Reconstruction is a sculptural and technology project that commemorates the 4 million people killed during the civil war in the Congo. much of this conflict is directly attributable to the battle over the mining right for a high priced ore that is key in all contemporary electronic technologies, coltan. Tantalum Memorial: Reconstruction was &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/thomasasmuth.art\/?p=368\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tantalum Memorial: Reconstruction<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"","site-content-layout":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[40,41,39,23,38],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects","tag-coltan","tag-congo","tag-redundant-technology","tag-sculpture","tag-telephony"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasasmuth.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasasmuth.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasasmuth.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasasmuth.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasasmuth.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thomasasmuth.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":569,"href":"https:\/\/thomasasmuth.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions\/569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasasmuth.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasasmuth.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasasmuth.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}