Fragmentierungen

In his series »Fragmentierungen« [Fragmentations] Julian Palacz works with discarded and found computer hard disks and makes their memory status visible in engravings on glass. He does not reveal the stored data but merely hints at their accessibility by applying the binary system of the elements »Description« and »Empty« to the hard disks. The artist uses this to create a kind of map that displays the hard disks' data; however, they are not actually readable because they have a new coding. By suggesting that the data is accessible Julian Palacz plays with the duality of visibility and encoding. Here the artist makes reference to how sensitive and personal data is handled within digitized systems and the ambivalent monitoring structures of such systems. As in many of his other works, here Julian Palacz, demonstrates the transparency of our actions in the digital sphere with subtle utilization of his materials.