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Algae Cloud is a speculative research artifact that imagines a personal cloud-storage system as a series of algae cultures; a mutual caring relationship where data storage is traded for sunlight, nutrients, and regular attention.
Concept description
DNA data storage technologies make it possible to safely store digital data files in the DNA of living organisms. Algae cloud imagines the weightless and ethereal “cloud” as a breathing, living culture that requires and provides care. In a world where humans are increasingly disconnected from other living things, but also to how digital data hoarding takes its physical toll on the planet, what relationships could we have with living organisms if we were dependent on them for data storage, and how would we treat data storage if it lives, grows and eventually dies?
