Digital Remains

Three model access keys made from acrylic, wood and aluminium

Throughout the twentieth century, when individuals died, they left behind increasingly large numbers of possessions. At the beginning of a new century, they now also leave huge legacies of data – digital documents, photographs, movies, music and more.

Seeing how friends or relatives had arranged their desktops or their files can invoke memories just as strongly as seeing how they organised their offices or bedrooms.

Digital Remains is envisioned as an internet service. In the first instance, the access keys provide tangible mementoes for the deceased; but they also provide wireless access to the files they have left behind, where close friends or relatives can browse through letters, photographs, music and messages.

Broader internet access to some of this information could be made available to a wider network of friends. The access key could revolve or pulse gently whenever anybody logged in, reminding grieving relatives that others care, too.

The display at the MoMA's Design and the Elastic Mind exhibition shows models of three access keys.

Beta Tank at the MoMA

Design and the Elastic Mind

by Beta Tank on April 09, 2008

Four of our projects are currently on display in the Design and the Elastic Mind exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

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Keywords: Bubble Screen, Digital Remains, Exhibitions, Eye Candy, Mind Chair Polyprop, Sensory Substitution