Heidi Sofia
Digital Decay
as society has progressed, certain forms of technology that were once pivotal to everyday life have become obsolete. similarly, as people grow old, they are deemed unimportant and slowly fade from society until they eventually pass on. digital decay explores the concept of technology and compares it to the human body, as both become undervalued with time. digital decay is composed of life-sized photographic sculptures of vintage technology, to try and serve as an archival method for the pieces depicted. the photographic sculptures depict a computer monitor from 2008, running windows vista (2007) software, and a nintendo ds lite (2006). where there would normally be internet tabs, chat rooms, or games, the screens of the devices instead feature images of a woman and bleached/dried flowers. despite the flowers being dried – a clear method of preservation, they too are just as obsolete as the human body and technology which they are surrounded by. eventually, every aspect of digital decay will be forgotten and return to the earth.
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