User:Michaela/Worklog

Description

In addition to the theme I am researching at the moment " traces, erasure" I am collecting discarded hard drives and retrieving data traces out of them in order to examine abandoned data and leftover traces. I will try to remix, recombine and sample these found leftover in poetic order by reconstructing or deconstructing what it remains to be lost.
How I can feed it back into the system of trace? This experiment is trigger by the idea of how the data trace is permanent, could not be not destroyed it has been capsulate within a time, the code and the medium itself.
In my research I am looking at the general themes of digital waste, e-waste... data erasure – the physically destruction of data as the ultimate mode of complete erase. I am interested in the ethical aspect or who has the right to retrieve someone's data?
On contrary why to be ethical, while the question of ethics blurs the bounder of re-appropriations, remixes and data meshes? In this sense I am not looking for treasure but instead looking for rubbish which can serve as a raw material for further investigation.

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Michael comments_tutorial 19.11.2013:

Think about the grey zone nothing has been done in this field. It might lead to interesting research.
Show the degradation of the object the hard drive itself. You can constantly examine the hard drives.
In case of you want to publish it /make it available online you can look at the notion of permissions or assigned different permission to use the data. For example a common practice in archives is to have a flag of content. For instance the red color, permission denied ( or the user has not give permission to use his/her data) yellow- somewhere in between ---> green - you have a green card to use the data . What that usage will consist of ? content of a loose narrative // or the choice how you can show the data by not showing it completely.
ex:

Methodology for data recover

Used Tools

screenshot photo_rec

TestDisk undeletes files from FAT, NTFS, exFAT and ext2 filesystem.
PhotoRec is an an open-source tool for data recover lost files, including video, documents and archives from hard disks.