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ABSTRACT

The traces of digital information are exponential ...
They contain various sources...
They travel, scattered, being trade - transacted or serve as a found footage for an artistic interventions...
Traces of digital data are tangible. Events or evidences, which meant to be deleted from a system...
they serve as a subject of recovery, revisit and exposure...

QUESTIONS I WANT TO ADDRESS IN MY ESSAY

#problem_aspect #1
MAIN THEME: OWNERSHIP/ DIGITAL PROPERTY/ PROPERTY RIGHTS

This text will departure from the notion of property and owership to digital property/ digital rights and digital ownership. The definition of property according to law, history studies, culture and art ( intelectual property / copyright ad copyleft regimes) in order to examine the question of the digital property.
I will map a research from art practices as dada, ready-made and SI applied to my own practice or the current grad project retrieving hard drives and using the information out of them for my own purpose.

following themes will appear and be revealed further in the text as a sub_themes:

#problem_aspect #2
SUB_THEME: PRIVACY IN DIGITAL REALM
The ethical issue I want to address is: who has the right to withdrawal someone's data and how this data could be used, reused or misused?

#problem_aspect #3
SUB_THEME: AUTHORSHIP/CO-AUTHORSHIP/ MULTIPLE - AUTHORS
The problematic aspect of the recovered data: who is the actual author of the final work?

<ownership

<<The story of Ghana digital trash camps: <<< e-waste, data remanence, data thief or how the data can be recovered and serve as an evidence Questions about e-waste and digital recycling, digital trash and data recycling.

<<<'data erasure' term - or the only way to erase data permanently is physically to destroy a hard disk drive. In the past shredders were used to destroy confidential, secret papers now there are replaces by data shredders.

<memory

This chapter will be about the technical aspect of data recovery process more specifically: clusters, partitions, Gutmann method etc.

<code

This chapter is about the performative aspect of the code.
Code as Language

<space

This chapter will be about the final work. Description/ set up etc.

links:

Ghana digital dumping ground article

Illegal e-waste dumped in Ghana includes unencrypted hard drives full of US security secrets

Legend of multiple passes of overwriting:

http://grot.com/wordpress/?p=154

http://www.pcworld.com/article/209418/how_do_i_permanently_delete_files_from_my_hard_disk.html

https://ssd.eff.org/tech/deletion

http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/10464/why-is-writing-zeros-or-random-data-over-a-hard-drive-multiple-times-better-th

[http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2014/jan/31/snowden-files-computer-destroyed-guardian-gchq-basement-video theguardian_snowden-files-computer-destroyed]