The Computer History Museum in California, exhibits old technology as an archive of digital evolution, "failed and obsolete technologies in abundance". Will Straw has coined this the Museum of Failure, and this is where my project starts.
Although a pessimistic outlook to consider the technical evolutions dead technologies, there is an importance to question and challenge the new locations of the obsolete, where has it gone? Since moving to London in September, I have been utterly baffled by the frequent encounters of e-waste strewn amidst the city. I think these moments need to be captured and exhibited to question the necessity of new technologies and is it justifiable economically, ethically, culturally and environmentally?
With these concepts, I am creating an online archive of e-waste to remember the moments of discovery, disregard and lack of want. It is important to utilise the internet in this project as this is a domain, an area for which content is continually recycled, disregarded and created.
It's really important to use the intimacy of where the e-waste is found because it is that intimate moment which drives the idea. I have created an instagram @curatingartmuseumoffailure, documenting where each item of matter was found. Instagram is infamous for recycled matter, and a constant stream of imagery [60 million uploads per day], which means [image value] alike the disregarded matter is subsequently decreased in worth.
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