DIGITIZATION OF INFORMATION AND ITS PHYSICAL COMPONENTS

2014

Mac mini with hard drive backup, solar panel, uninterrupted power supply, backup software, checksum software and web cam, climate-controlled vitrine, brass weather station, Madagascar cockroaches, 19th Century book, (Rollo’s Travels) bound in calfskin with matzo casing, plexiglass vitrines.

The project materializes the process of converting information from physical to digital formats, as well as the barriers and considerations (both physical and digital) in maintaining integrity of this information as an archive. Over the course of the exhibition the cockroaches consumed the book. The resulting 72-days time lapse images captures the disintegration of the book through the fail-safe electronic system in an adjacent vitrine. Video plays 23 minutes, 2014