James Addison

Save Yourself

The advent of the personal computer has revolutionised the way we store information. However, how can we preserve our digital records for future generations? We tend to no longer keep letters, photograph albums and films in their physical forms; rather we compress our lives onto online databases, social networking websites and hard drives. All of these sadly will not last forever.

This piece is a record of my digital self, a decade of data, photographs and memories stored onto a series of CD-ROMs and reflected through a digital scanner. The fractal spectrum of colours acts as a visual metaphor for our fragile online world and asks the question — can we truly save ourselves?