Partition

250 kilograms of deleted and formatted hard discs were bought for their pure material value. These were restored and became the archaeological site of intimate information, worries, distress, e-mails, desires, sexual fantasies, illnesses, people’s bank account details. Information of an immense quality is fundamentally opposed to a now trivial materiality of the data medium. The raw material, the deleted hard discs, are transformed from an economic value—the rare metals it contains—into a metaphysical value. The continual progressive reconstruction of data is accompanied by a reconstruction of the existence of the former owner. The most impressive findings were written down on a piece of paper.

 
Winner
2nd prize (Experiments)