The digital junkyard is an experiment in virtual salvage. It is a repository of donated digital information that is used to generate real physical and spatial objects. Making use of the derelict bits of ideas, lines, code, vectors, patterns, curves that we all have cluttering up our hard drives, the digital junkyard is a place to store unwanted junk towards making new creative projects. Designers, architects, artists will be asked to donate their old unfinished and unwanted files to the project. This could be as small as a simple image or some extruded boxes, or it could be as large as a full set of plans for a house that will never be built.
Most designers have spent hours coming up with ideas that never come into the development stage. A moment of inspiration may leave you cold the next day. Some are valued and saved for other opportunities, while many are set aside to forever be couched in constantly expanding digital junk drawers.
Besides being a storehouse for everything that may have been moved to the trash, the digital junkyard experiment sets up a process and a studio practice whereby these files can be picked apart, poached and reconstituted into new projects using digital fabrication tools.
This project is an embodiment of the growing collective intelligence that technology affords us; and an experiment in ideas about digital ecology. It also honours the time and energy that designers put into testing and making mistakes.
In the spirit of openness and collaboration, designers, artists, students, experimenters will be able to join the project and make use of the process and salvaged material.
Most designers have spent hours coming up with ideas that never come into the development stage. A moment of inspiration may leave you cold the next day. Some are valued and saved for other opportunities, while many are set aside to forever be couched in constantly expanding digital junk drawers.
Besides being a storehouse for everything that may have been moved to the trash, the digital junkyard experiment sets up a process and a studio practice whereby these files can be picked apart, poached and reconstituted into new projects using digital fabrication tools.
This project is an embodiment of the growing collective intelligence that technology affords us; and an experiment in ideas about digital ecology. It also honours the time and energy that designers put into testing and making mistakes.
In the spirit of openness and collaboration, designers, artists, students, experimenters will be able to join the project and make use of the process and salvaged material.
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