Noor Nuyten (1986)
Gazing Bitflips - 14:55
2022 | shredded, melted and pressed e-waste and production waste of Dutch designer Joris Laarman | 90 × 70 cm
While you’re scrolling on your phone, a cosmic ray could strike the Earth’s atmosphere. Without realising it, you’ve just experienced a cosmic ray attack, creating a bitflip in your smartphone. In the future, cosmic bit flipping will happen more often as processors become smaller and more energy-efficient.
For Gazing Bitflips, Nuyten started to detect and collect bitflips with a smartphone turned into a pocket detector, discovering lit pixels caused by cosmic rays on a daily basis. Here we see an initial attempt to get bitflips off the screen through a process of melting and solidification at the exact moment of a cosmic strike on a smartphone. The outcome reminds us of a dazzling galaxy: the source of the cosmic rays.
This work of art is made of shredded, melted and pressed production waste from Dutch designer Joris Laarman and e-waste developed in collaboration with Stefania Petroula and circular company vanPlestik.
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