Abstract (Poster)

Keywords: Hard Drive; Interactive Installation; Digital Forensics; Data Recovery; Media Art; Delete; Save; Rewind; Residue.

This paper reports on my ongoing practice based research, which aims to examine the importance of the ‘Delete’ function in the context and practice of Media Art. DEL?No, wait!REW is an interactive installation, which de- and recontextualizes the process of data recovery by displaying found disclosures of retrieved data and posing a series of questions to the audience in a recurrent manner.

• Michaela Lakova (BG) is a visual artist and researcher. She holds a Master’s degree in Media Design and Communication from Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. She takes a lost and found approach to media. Her field of research and practice involves catchy bits and bytes of errors, systems malfunction and the inevitable generation of data traces and its problematic resistance to deletion.

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