Ancient Egyptians believed their souls were judged by a comparison of the weights of their hearts with the weight of a feather. For their project, 10 kg, artists Sebastian Schmieg and Johannes Osterhoff have taken this assessment into the digital realm, questioning the value and presence of a hard drive after it's been taken apart.To create 10 kg, Schmieg and Osterhoff first singled out the picture above—a pile of destructed hardware—from a collection of photographs from Google’s Data Centers Inside Look. From this image, they were inspired to create a symbolic and literal representation of the idea that without stored data, all that's left is scrap metal.
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