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The Elegy Archive appears as an online virtual space. It collects information and stories from online archives that once existed but have disappeared. It collects the ruins of the Internet and becomes ruins itself. It deals with the practice of archeology through the excavation and extraction of forgotten data, and is a discussion and response to Nils Jean's digital archeology and the materiality of digital waste.
These archives have disappeared, so do these ruins still have significance? Do they still have materiality?
The answers to these questions are found in Nils Jean's article. She discusses the concept of materiality of digital waste in internet art practice, arguing that online information has some form of materiality. The core issue is that digital waste goes beyond the metaphor of waste to explore how it is used. Digital waste is not just the reuse of discarded data, but a material expression, which is of great significance in Internet art practice. This materiality is not just about the physical material itself, but about the process and results of how this data and information is transformed into meaningful artistic practice. According to Jussi Parikka, Media Archaeology represents a materialist ‘traveling discipline’ – he also uses the term nomadic –based on a mobile set of concepts and which intends to understand contemporary digital culture by excavating obsolete,forgotten or lost media.
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