A blackhole is a mass collapsing itself into existence. The internet is an infinite void several thousand times larger in storage size than the entirety of written history before it. Pulling us into its orbit, yet on the brink of total deletion. My project investigates internet culture in response to an increasingly volatile internet where obsolescence, spam, and corporate negligence has led internet histories to become defunct & erased. “The internet used to be the future, now it has a past.” - Joanne McNeil. My project is concerned with the creation of physical objects to avoid erasure and to document the internet culture that is endangered by its collapse. Vinyl records, tapestry and receipt machines become vehicles of history and preservation in the face of a ‘Digital Anthropocene’.
