Material Conditions
The project looks at the physical conditions behind data storage, focusing on the clean environments, materials, and infrastructures involved in the production and maintenance of digital data.
Dust within a Dust-Free Zone
Dust becomes a way to think about the tension between data security and control. In contrast to the dust-free environments required for technological production, dust represents what cannot be fully controlled, contained, or eliminated. Through field research and speculative thinking, the project reimagines data storage not as something purely digital or immaterial, but as a physical system shaped by materials, environments, and processes of control. It asks what it might mean to reclaim data within these conditions.
