Morris Worms (WIP)
2025Morris Worms is rooted in the interplay between sculpture and architecture, navigating the boundaries between real and imagined digital spaces. The work interrogates how digital waste ages, highlighting multiple scales of interiority and exteriority. Incorporating accumulated household waste the work reconstructs and reinterprets both social and digital history. Through the technique of assemblage, it constructs digital narratives and calls to question the digital and physical waste in our lives.
Within the work sounds subtly move through the gallery space, a recording of a 20-member mixed human choir heard humming softly, their voices reminiscent of the low, ambient hum of a refrigerator—present yet unobtrusive. This soundscape blends with gentle crackling noises, evoking sensations of something gradually growing or breaking. These elements alternate and occasionally overlap, building a sense of tension before fading back into silence.
The title of the work refers to the Morris Worm, one of the earliest computer viruses (1988), which triggered a significant large-scale security incident. The Morris Worm is considered one of the oldest computer worms which disabled the online world and introduced us to the power of computer networking for good and bad.
4 channel audio installation, 400 cardboard boxes, tape, acrylic varnish
Photography: Mischa Haller