Kat Jarvinen
The Reliquary of Feral Devices

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animated gif of digital glitch

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installation view of copper in blue liquid

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oxidized copper plate with blue copper sulfate crystal

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home-grown copper crystal

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installation view

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installation view

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installation view, tank filled with blue liquid

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installation view, blue liquid

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installation view, copper crystals in blue liquid

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installation view, animatronic toys in oil

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installation view

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circuit board in blue liquid

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blue copper sulfate crystal with embedded copper wire

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home-grown copper metal crystal and blue copper sulfate crystals

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installation view, shadow box with crystals

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home-grown copper crystal

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copper crystal in the shape of a swan

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home-grown copper e-waste crystal

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installation view, shadow box

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photograph of oxidized copper plate

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oxidized copper plate

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home-grown copper crystal

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installation view, shadow box

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green circuit board with copper crystals growing on it

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photograph of a small circuit board with copper crystals growing out of it

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animated gif of digital glitch

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screenshot of spam email

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oxidized copper plate with blue copper sulfate crystal

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oxidized copper plate with blue copper sulfate crystal

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photograph of oxidized copper plate

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home-grown copper metal crystal and blue copper sulfate crystals

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home-grown copper crystal

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installation view of copper in blue liquid

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photograph of oxidized copper plate

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oxidized copper plate

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home-grown copper crystal

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blank space

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blue copper sulfate crystal with embedded copper wire

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home-grown copper crystal

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home-grown copper e-waste crystal

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oxidized copper plate with blue copper sulfate crystal

ARTIST STATEMENT

notice, the continuous process of decay.

decay of material (corrosion) (abstraction),

decay of context (nostalgia),

decay of the platform, software, and machine.

the planned decay that some might call obsolescence,

the process of falling into disuse, 

the system slowing down.

innovation swells,

excess rots in the wake. 

new layers of industry, desire, and device submerge the old,

as additive fabrication,

as a fiction that accumulates.

layers stack up. 

layers of abstraction where fossil becomes light, earth becomes cloud. 

demand is manufactured for objects that cannot retain value. 

existence, this way, is artificially brief, 

demise, this way, is extensive.

to be wasted is to embrace this withering. 

to transform is to endure.

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This project seeks to disrupt cycles of waste and create space for alternatives to technological decay. Through exploring, confusing, and subverting the ways we are conditioned to engage with media and technology—what is considered safe, dangerous, desirable, valuable, meaningful, functional, or possible—this project proposes an alternative reality for those things we throw away.