Digital Disposables

Digital files, as physical goods, are disposable items. They are not as intangible as they seem. We still have to get rid of them, when we assume they are useless. Once we do it, new space is created, and the cycle repeats. Digital files, as physical goods, are a trace of who we are. They are part of our past, through the digital interactions they once represented; they are part of our present, in which they are generated perpetually, and they are part of our future, since the (in)voluntary act of storage, eventually implies possible access. Digital files, as physical goods, need storage. Digital storage capacity transitioned from the physicality of the machine and external hard drives,...View all