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During my Bachelor. I made a project called “The Library of Babel” based on the short story by the same name by the Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges. This project was made on the topic of “bit-rot” in text documents. This project got me really interesting in the long term storage of information and how we as society deal with it. A thread that goes through my previous projects [such as X Y and Z] are always these topics that I find interesting, but never get the attention I think they deservers.

Today we are often promised instant relocation and storage for free. How does this effect our connection to what we make? And how does this supposedly “easy life” change what we make and think about how we store it? My interest in the topic of finding and spreading information and knowledge started early by visiting the school library at the age of nine for technology and history books. Later in life I made a computer game magazine when I was 13 years old. I had folders of images, texts and project files from the project, but even being incredibly careful where I saved them, moving them around from computers to floppy disks to other computers, it all got lost somewhere.