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The infinite cycles of past and future, new and old, life and death, human and nonhuman all come together at the end of life. In The Life Cycle of Data Sewages 1 and 2, digital undertakers sail the canals of data sewage on a mourning parade. Focused on their work, they push away the lifeless remains of e-waste and algorithmic data. Does our digital debris define who we are?

Wednesday Kim is an interdisciplinary artist and a co-founder of De:Formal. She is currently based out of California. Kim works with a mixture of analog and digital media including 3D animation, video, performance, installation, print, and sculpture with clusterfuck aesthetics.
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