lost to the digital ether

In lost to the digital ether, the collective room69 squats the fluid cyberspace to explore archiving as a process of loss and cooperative speculation that stretches across multiple worlds.

Using the infrastructure of Google Maps as the setting of a virtual repository of their work, the collective designed a liminal space for collecting and exhibiting artworks. In the heterochronic realm, these can be perpetually reinvented, forgotten or rediscovered unwittingly by online entities anywhere in the world.
The ever-expanding misty terrain of the digital archive materialises in the gallery as a hybrid installation. Bypassing the institutional and formal limitations of the white cube while leaning into its openness for fiction, lost to the digital ether uses the exhibition space as a temporary physical anchor and entry point into its history and development, blurring the lines between construction and excavation.

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