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|Year=2014
|Student=Michaela Lakova
|Featured image=File:Img 1 copy.png
|Workdesc=<span style="color:#FFFFFF;background-color:#000000;">DEL?No, wait!REW</span> is automatized system, which recovers files from hard drives without the consent or the knowledge of the previous owners, who presume their content has been forever deleted. <br>
The installation is displayed in a dark space. A steam of light is casted by the screens and a light table. At the center of the space is placed cold steel controller reminiscent of industrial machines. The controller has two buttons: Delete and Save@; <span style="color:#FFFFFF;background-color:#000000;"> Delete</span> enables the option to remove permanently a file from the system, while <span style="color:#FFFFFF;background-color:#000000;">Save@</span> allows to upload this file online. Once the save option is chosen a file gets published online. You can visit the domain of the saved files on:-->http://delnowaitrew.com
|Bio=Michaela Lakova(BG) is a visual artist who 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.
|URL=http://mlakova.org
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==DEL?No,wait!REW installation==
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[[File:Buttons.png|thumbnail|260px|left|<span style= font-weight:bold>DEL?No, wait!REW</span> asks is it possible to delete information in the digital age? Whether our storage devices are locally present (hard drives) or dislocated (the cloud), can we ever be certain our data has been permanently deleted? In the ongoing conversation around the impossibility of erasing digital traces, what role do we take? Are we plunderers, interpreters or mediators?]]
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<h1>Generative koplets</h1><br>
[[File:B&w mn.png|thumbnail|300px|left| SaraTimTrust_museumNacht |In an installation piece three CRT TVs are placed next to each other, displaying the <span style= font-weight:bold>Generative koplet videos#1,#2 and 3</span> in a loop, forming an almost sculptural piece. Two of the video works consist of textual and pictorial fragments of retrieved data from the hard drives.
<span style= font-weight:bold>Generative_koplet#1</span> consists of an array of abstract visuals of various maps, cities and coordinates contrasted
by their generative black and white quality.The soundtrack of the videos is a slightly distorted sound from a powered up and spinning hard drive recorded
from the interior of the drive and drawing its presence into the physical world. <span style= font-weight:bold>Generative_koplet#2</span> depicts a production line of workers in a factory disassembling pineapples in Ghana,emotionless in their everyday routine and presented in a semi-documentary style.]]
* Videos--> [http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/~mlakova/data_erasure/Generative_Koplet%231.mp4 Generative_Koplet#1.mp4][http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/~mlakova/data_erasure/Generative_Koplet_2.mp4 Generative_Koplet#2.mp4][http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/~mlakova/data_erasure/Generative_koplet%233.mp4 Generative_koplet#3.mp4]]
[[File:B&w Generative small copy.png|thumbnail|300px|right|Generative koplet#3|<span style= font-weight:bold> Generative_koplet#3</span> serves as a behind-the-scenes view of the recovery process, where I positioned myself at the center, placing the hard drive into an ATA hard drive case and running the recovery software documenting every step of mine. This meta-video provides an inside look into a common procedure of repetitive acts in an attempt to perform this rather trivial action.]]

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<h1>Err_booklet</h1>
[[File:Bookie_.pdf|800px|left|margin-left:150px]] [[File:Bookie.png|400px|thumbnail|right|<span style= font-weight:bold>The [Err] Booklet</span> is a visual assemblage of found images from the mentioned hard drives, Internet materials related to the research topic and photographs I took during the process of writing the thesis. This booklet aims to trace back the process of data recovery, display and potentially erase lost and found artifacts of data. It is also a work log of personal thoughts, observations, concerns and frustrations, which surpasses the actual process.]]
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