Untitled (silicon wally)

The image is a familiar one: a prehistoric mosquito trapped in tree resin millions of years ago, unwittingly becoming a storage medium for dinosaur DNA. Untitled (silicon wally) replicates this physical mishap. Encapsulated in epoxy resin, digital data carriers are embedded directly into the historic masonry of Schlossberg Linz. It is an attempt to crossbreed the fleeting digital information of our time with the stubborn permanence of stone.
The work functions as an artificial sedimentary layer of the present. While the bit structures inside the chips are already subject to a creeping chemical decay — a process one might discreetly call bit-rot — their casings remain as optimistic inclusions within the rock.
As a model of speculative archaeology, untitled (silicon wally) reflects the transition from active information to passive matter. Just as DNA is isolated from fossilised resin today, the hardware remains as a hypothetical archive for the future. Will future technologies still find echoes of our techno-centric epoch within this ‘Silicon Wally’ — or will posterity merely encounter an exceptionally durable collection of empty plastic shells?