Experimenting with the Physicality of Digital Materiality

Abstract

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.

Contributors

Chrissy Pretious-Cooney: Role: Designer

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Publication date: July 2019

Publication date (Print): July 2019

Pages: 64-65

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London, SE1 3UN, UK

Article

DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.12

Copyright statement: © Pretious-Cooney. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Proceedings of EVA London 2019, UK

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Conference name: Proceedings of EVA London 2019

Conference acronym: EVA 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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Series title: Electronic Workshops in Computing