Data Badlands / Philipp Gschwendtner (DE) and Benjamin Herrmann (DE)
The project takes inspiration from geological archives shaped by the forces of wind and water, adapting these processes to digital data. An algorithm erodes, alters and transports information based on rules that incorporate the basic laws of thermodynamics and information theory. Thus, "Data Badlands" reflects upon the binary distinction between deleting or keeping data, opening a third possibility of slow regress.
This project is part of the new joint research-based master's program in Design & Computation from the cooperation between the University of the Arts Berlin and the Technische Universität Berlin.
Photo: Philipp Gschwendtner, Benjamin Herrmann
Data Badlands / Philipp Gschwendtner (DE) and Benjamin Herrmann (DE)
The project takes inspiration from geological archives shaped by the forces of wind and water, adapting these processes to digital data. An algorithm erodes, alters and transports information based on rules that incorporate the basic laws of thermodynamics and information theory. Thus, "Data Badlands" reflects upon the binary distinction between deleting or keeping data, opening a third possibility of slow regress.
This project is part of the new joint research-based master's program in Design & Computation from the cooperation between the University of the Arts Berlin and the Technische Universität Berlin.
Photo: Philipp Gschwendtner, Benjamin Herrmann