Presented as part of the CODE and NOISE Exhbition. Curated by Christine Duval.

Discarded parts of a scanner, projector, wooden shelf, MicroSD memory card. Video loop of 03:25 min.

Small Data Series
Small Data is composed of a series of salvaged electronic devices (old cell phones, broken computer screens and printers, cracked hard discs, etc.) onto which an overhead projection is cast. The projections, precisely aimed at the devices, animate and seemingly give new life to the abandoned technologies. The artist works like an archeologist, pulling out the found items from piles of discarded materials in junkyards and recycling centers (veritable cemeteries for consumer electronics) and organizes them on shelves as if they were fragile remnants of a bygone era. Issues related to memory and identity are explored in this group of artworks. As communication tools with the outside world, and as repositories for so many of our thoughts, we acquire a very intimate relationship with the technological devices present in the artworks. Haunted by their past, the artist attempts to reveal memories, both personal and collective, that seem trapped within, mementos of a time when they had fully functional lives and served us well.Small Data explores the life and death of consumer electronics, and how, when we discard our devices, we are throwing out a small part of ourselves.

Courtesy of Bitforms, New York, NY