Experimenting with the Physicality of Digital Materiality

I wanted to understand the idea of digital materiality and how software cannot be seen, as it has no predetermined visual form. Digital materiality is electrical signals and code, it has no tangible matter, therefore we cannot physically interact with it – therefore it is immaterial (Grombacher 2017). I wanted to render visible the invisible and to understand digital memory/storage as a physical form. It began with the exploration of a USB flashdrive, physically and digitally deconstructing it, to understand the idea of storage and treating memory as an object.

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Publication date: July 2019

Publication date (Print): July 2019

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.12

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Conference name: Proceedings of EVA London 2019

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Conference location: London, UK

Conference date: 8 - 11 July 2019

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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[1] J. Bridle 2011 James Bridle / The New Aesthetic https://jamesbridle.com/works/the-new-aesthetic retrieved 10 March 2019 )

[2] P. BurkL. PolanskyD. RepettoM. RobertsD. Rockmore 2002 Music and Computers: A Theoretical and Historical Approach 1st ed [ebook] Emeryville Key College Publishing 2.1-2.8 http://sites.music.columbia.edu/cmc/MusicAndComputers/frontmatter/preface to archival version.php retrieved 10 March 2019 )

[3] P. Grombacher 2017 What is digital materiality? Rethinking Matter http://www.rethinkingmatter.com/blog/2017/3/27/what-is-digital-materiality retrieved 10 March 2019 )

[4] S. Lowe 2015 What does software look like? http://object-mechanics.com/what-does-software-look-like/ retrieved 10 March 2019 )

[5] Shutha 2019 Image Pixels http://shutha.org/node/789 retrieved 10 March 2019 )

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