STATIC MEMORIES
EXHIBITION 02 / 2024
Preserving the ephemeral.
A meditation on digital preservation and decay. In the digital realm, nothing truly dies—it just becomes harder to access. This exhibition explores archives, artifacts, and the archaeology of the internet.
FEATURED PIECES
001 / 404 MEMORIAL
A monument to lost websites. Each pixel represents a dead link, a broken promise, a page that will never load again. Hover to see what was lost.
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002 / CACHE GHOST
Fragments of websites pulled from Internet Archive. Reassembled, decontextualized, haunting. The past viewed through a corrupted lens.
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003 / DIGITAL DUST
What remains when the servers shut down? This piece visualizes the decay of digital artifacts over time, simulating bit rot and data corruption.
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STATEMENT
We trust the cloud to remember for us. But clouds dissipate. Servers die. Companies fold. The digital forever is a lie we tell ourselves.
Static Memories is an elegy for lost data, forgotten MySpace profiles, deleted tweets, abandoned blogs. It asks: what happens to our digital selves when the platforms disappear?
ARTIST NOTE
"I spent weeks crawling through the Internet Archive, finding fragments of websites from the late 90s and early 2000s. Beautiful, weird, personal pages that no longer exist anywhere else. This exhibition is my attempt to honor them, to give them a second life, however brief." — PW