The series "fragments_1" explores the transience of digital data and raises the question of what will remain for future generations.
Unlike in the past where archives and museums preserved analog records, the preservation of digital data has become much more challenging. While paper can last for centuries under
the right conditions, the readability of digital data may already be in a critical state after a few decades due to updates, component degradation, and advancing technologies.
"fragments_1" represents a digital remnant, a fossil, that can be compared to forgotten technologies, undecipherable languages, or fossils whose “complete” information in a wider sense is more speculative than informative.
Digital images are programmed textcodes, composed of letters, numbers and characters that get decoded pixel by pixel to show the full picture. The basis for this is a mathematical language, with the program translating colors through text. Removing parts of the text not only removes a part of the image but also forces the program to recalculate and reinterpret the remaining pixels. The visual moment of reinterpretation is called a glitch and is abstractly captured in these works.
The fragments are taken from photographs of nature, such as landscapes, minerals, flowers and others.
Through artistic intervention, individual pixels blur into a visual result that leaves room for personal interpretation and deeper thinking about what will be left from our digital life but also transcience in general.
The complete series comprises 250 unique works, 64 x 64 cm / 64 x 128 cm each.
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