FAT32 Loss Protocol
October - November 2023 · Performance · Installation · Independent · Commission/Exhibition
"Do you remember everything that has ever happened to you?" / FAT32 Loss Protocol is an AV performance project that explores the degeneration of memory generated by trauma by virtue of taking autonomy back over this process. The performance involves me drilling and hammering internal hard drives which glitches up memories of my childhood on my screen and transitions between them as one gets "successfully corrupted".
Technical Implementation
The project involves a wide pressure sensor connected to the hard drive being hammered and a small pressure sensor connected to the drill's trigger. Upon pressing the drill, the value of the "datamosh variable" in the shader increments in a TouchDesigner GLSL patch. Afterwards, when I realize that I have successfully glitched out this memory, I start hammering the other hard drive which starts generating a noised tiled pattern whose threshold increases more towards white as I keep hammering it. Upon several hammer strokes, the noise pattern becomes fully white bringing out the new memory on screen and resetting the datamosh variable so I can continue corrupting the new memory.