Rot

"Digital lives leave digital traces that may or may not correspond to the physical world. Quality of information is increasingly degraded through disinformation, bots and AI 'dreams', obscuring evidence in a sea of noise. Efforts to archive and preserve the digital is a neglected priority in an age of commercial tech. Through Wikipedia articles, term definitions and archived tweets (some live and some since deleted, from today's most prolific peddlers of disinformation) I present a living mind-map of narrative collapse, or 'hyperreality', where each individual experience is hypersubjective. Political corruption is producing digital corruption (as in the mass deletion of CDC medical datasets by the Trump administration). Physical corruption here spreads across the text and obscures it, leaving only the tangible intact. Visitors move the cursor or wave their hands to brush away the mould, but any interaction only further obscures the text. This piece explores the relation between tangible and intangible truths and untruths."

• The central panel is a live feed of Wikipedia, the image is projection-mapped onto the fabric and printed boards. The mould spreads and the surface / text degrades in live interaction.
• The final work was exhibited at REFRACT, a 2 day tech arts exhibition in Peckham, London (UK), in July 2025.