Door: Rodrigo
https://graduation.kabk.nl/2025/rodrigo-cardoso
“Decaying Data is an interactive installation exploring the ecological cost and permanence of digital data. Visitors are invited to give away a small piece of personal data: a word, a thought, a memory, a lie… Their message is temporarily stored and displayed, as would happen in a computer server, but only as enough energy is available.
The installation is controlled by a series of mud-based microbial fuel cells – electricity derived from bacteria in the soil – which power an electronic switch. When the mud cells reach a certain charge, the switch activates, allowing new data to be processed. As the mud cells discharge, the displayed data decays until it has been erased from the server and screen. After this slow, organic erasure, the cycle can begin again.”
https://rodri-go.net/theautonomousweb
https://rodri-go.net/theautonomousweb/experimental_handbook_for_internet_autonomy.pdf
“How can people self-govern their internet experience? How can they obtain autonomy from the internet while still being able to use it according to their needs?
In its search for internet autonomy, this publication reimagines the web as two extreme versions of itself. An oppressive, alienating dystopia where users became enslaved by the web, and its polar opposite, a utopian realm where biological life and the autonomous internet exist in true cybernetic harmony.
The negative story takes the form of a comic novel, examining the myriad ways in which the internet cunningly takes away our freedom. In this world, which could be us in a not so distant future, people live in a zombie-like state. Constantly connected to their digital devices, that shun them from reality, they live and die as data generators for the Cloud.”
