immaterial affect
Nowadays, data is a pretty dispensable resource, but if we were to look back 2 decades from today, we’d be amazed to see how far drive density has evolved.
This trend has arguably strayed us further and further away from valuing data as a resource that you manage and take care of, nowadays, nobody knows how much data they produce and dispose of, mostly because of its perceived immateriality.
A shared common ground we have as humans is that we constantly live through events, some that we end up loving dearly. These moments are often captured as data through images, sometimes forgotten, sometimes revisited.
immaterial affect aims to answer the following question :
Can we change our perception of data by surfacing it’s ephemerality ? As an answer to this question, I created a speculative machine that allows for photo files to degrade in real-time, with the scope of making people re-think about the dependency our digital life has to computational processes.