Excavating Digital Archives

Each of these projects explore ways of excavating the increasingly vast digital archives that we are beginning to build throughout our lives. In particular, they are attempts to establish ways in which physical and digital technological artefacts might be made more emotionally and temporally enduring, and consequently how those archives might then be handed down to others over time.

This work includes 3 projects; Photo Box,  Remembr and Hidden Printers , each of which was undertaken during a 12 week Internship, and subsequent consultancy work, within the Socio-Digital Systems group at Microsoft Research Cambridge and form part of the Technology Heirlooms research theme.

Photo Box remebr Hidden Printers

About

My name is Mark and I’m a product interaction designer and researcher. Or something.

I am currently a PhD student at Nottingham University’s Mixed Reality Lab and Horizon DTC, where I am conducting design lead research into the consequences and implications of the technology mediated practices that we currently employ to record and recollect our experiences.
Alongside academic research I have maintained my own creative practice, and continue to work with commercial design studios, artists, galleries and research labs, on anything from hardware development and prototyping to interaction design and conceptual development.

I am also a co-founder and collaborator at The Institute for Boundary Interactions; an interdisciplinary research collective research working across science, technology, art and design.

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