Data Tombs

Milo Reinhardt

Prompted by the question “Have you ever wondered what happens to your data when you die?”, viewers are invited to consider a near future preventative solution to losing a lifetime of digital assets. Presented as a digital archival monument consisting of a screen-based interactive gravesite, mobile application, and series of custom funerary hard drive cases, Data Tomb functions as a physical materialization of our digital identities and responds to a cultural shift in grieving as mediated by digital technology.

2016

Digital display, plaster, polarized filter of LCD screen, laser print on acetate, plastic envelope

Dimensions variable

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Data Tomb

Milo Reinhardt

Prompted by the question “Have you ever wondered what happens to your data when you die?”, viewers are invited to consider a near future preventative solution to losing a lifetime of digital assets. Presented as a digital archival monument consisting of a screen-based interactive gravesite, mobile application, and series of custom funerary hard drive cases, Data Tomb functions as a physical materialization of our digital identities and responds to a cultural shift in grieving as mediated by digital technology.

2016

Digital display, plaster, polarized filter of LCD screen, laser print on acetate, plastic envelope

Dimensions variable

datatomb01