Digital Decay and Afterlives
Syllabus
Week 1: Intro + Digital Erosion + Afterlives
Week 2: Behaviors, Dependencies + Systems
Week 3: Archival Fragmentation + Incomplete Provenance
Week 4: Web Scraping + Networked Archives
Week 5: Metadata for Loss, Failure + Uncertainty
Week 6: After the Original: Deciding What Persists
Week 7: AI, Ghost Files + Speculative Non-Assets
Week 8: Exhibition as Research: Displaying the Incomplete
Week 9: Prototype Development