Yura Kang

"In the forgotten corners of our digital landscape lie fragments of our collective past: broken links, abandoned pages, and obsolete platforms slowly fading into obscurity. ""Data Crumb Relics"" transforms these ephemeral digital traces into tangible artifacts of cultural and emotional significance.

This project views artificial intelligence as both a tool and a historical lens representing a crucial slice of human intelligence history. AI serves as our archaeological partner, meticulously analyzing, reconstructing, and reinterpreting lost digital fragments. As we train machine learning models to identify and regenerate these digital remnants, we create a dialogue between past and present technological understanding, documenting the evolution of how machines interpret human expression.

By repurposing obsolete data rather than allowing it to vanish into digital oblivion, we align with sustainable digital practices while preserving AI's developmental timeline. Each artifact becomes a dual record, capturing both human digital expression and the AI methods used to recover it.
Visitors experience these relics through immersive installations that blend digital fabrication with tangible materials: resin-encased code fragments, projection-mapped memories, and interactive displays. These sensory encounters evoke emotional connections while documenting the progression of AI capabilities over time.

""Data Crumb Relics"" invites viewers to reconsider what we value in our digital lives, finding beauty in what was once considered disposable while chronicling AI’s ongoing role in human history, preserving both our digital past and the evolving relationship between human and machine intelligence."