Michaela Lakova
40x20x10 cm, frozen data mini hard disk, hair sample, epoxy resin
“Frozen data” contains a hard disk and a hair piece which have been encapsulated in a box, promising that both digital and personal data, containing the DNA of the artist will be kept forever. Thus, the process of herbalization can be seen as an attempt to question what we try to save or preserve for the future.
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Michaela Lakova (born in 1987 in Sofia) is a visual artist and researcher currently based between Rotterdam and Sofia, Bulgaria. Throughout her work, Lakova explores how the generation of digital traces and their problematic resistance to being deleted impact our perception of data ownership. Investigating the ethics of deletion and recovery of data, Michaela analyses and interprets the notion of digital information by considering its slippery nature, superimposing processes of digital recovery over the materiality of human memory.
Website: mlakova.org
Website: mlakova.org