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failed institute of failure

The 2001 Tim Etchells and Matthew Goulish online curatorial project called The Institute of Failure” is/was an amazing collection of ideas to do with failure and limitations.

The site looked something like this:

But now it looks like this:

It is as if the site has become a self-fulfilling failure. Perhaps to be hacked by porn is the fate of all online art projects? Like some kind of porn-entropy.

Here is Tim Etchell’s (unhacked) overview of the project: http://timetchells.com/projects/institute-of-failure/

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