Water

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Water is a speculative project, designing an alternate data storing and sharing method using water. This project is inspired by the history and homeopathic practice of “Water Memory” in which people researched and believed that water carries and transmits information, including emotion. Amid the data collection and data pooling conducted in substantial data centers, our project imagines an unstable data-structure existing between the volatile liquid molecules. Data shifts in the volatile forms of "Solid, Liquid, Gas". Operations of "Read, Write, Transfer, Delete" are acted as “Bite, Eat, Lick, Drink, Freeze, Cut, Share, Mix, Release”. Water introduces an ambiguous, physical interface with data, exploring new relationships with one’s own data.

This project consists of demo videos and participant involvement. Both are included in the interactive documentation website. We documented the entire performance on how to transfer data from a regular USB drive into water and how we prevented the data from being polluted with noise signals during the process. Here are the 5 steps of transferring data to water: 

(1) Clean equipment

(2) Select types of water as a storage base for data transfer

(3) Set up equipment including double faraday cages, wire clips, a container, and a USB

(4) Transfer data to water with the help electromagnetic radiation

(5) Store data-infused water in the freezer

We invited participants to transfer their data into water. They sent us their data on USB drives, and after completing all five steps, we delivered the final frozen water back to them.