User:Michaela/Worklog

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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. The traces of information are exponential they contain various sources of ..they travel, scattered. The material I found so far is personal data, ( family photos, personal videos - dating from the late 70s - 80s, some amateur videos, some generative graphics, web graphs.

Meta data missing

In this concept of tagging the traces - by time and space of when and where they were made. In this case there is no actual metadata...only evidences of time and space from the quality of the footage itself. The material I found so far is personal data, ( family photos, personal videos - dating from the late 70s - 80s, some amateur videos, some generative graphics, web graphs. Interesting mesh of founds and
[ 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. - The hard drive as an ultimate storage of data. The data has been purchased as a commodity or trade it on Marketplaats. -
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.
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David comments tutorial 20.11.2013:

The material is rich you should be present while you are making a descion. What standpoint you' re taking the political vs antropological? The ethical issue you are facing is relevant only for the personal data not for the rest of the material, where the camera is facing the The project it is not just an archive... I am fascinated by the idea of erase how you can accomplish the idea of erasure in the work you are making ... Be careful not to get lost while Keep the images "broken" or the way how they are as a result from the recovery.


Methodology for data recover

diagram_dataRecovery

Used Tools

The software used to retrieve data could be seen HERE-->
screen_captcha_photorec.mp4 The sound of the Hard drive could be listen HERE-->
HardDrive_Sound

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.