A cloud shrinking service create by Justin Blinder and Benjamin Gaulon.

Bit By Bit

Bit by Bit (BbB) s a cloud shrinking service create by Justin Blinder and Benjamin Gaulon. The project started from a common interested for digital waste and data recycling. During Art Hack Day at the 2014 Transmediale Festival in Berlin, BbB was be presented as a network performance and installation.

BbB displays the latest pastebin uploads, while at the same time, requesting for the content to be removed by sending automatic cease and desist emails. Each file displayed is visible for the last time at Transmediale 2014 and projected onto light sensitive surface leaving an afterglow for a short amount of time. BbB reduces the data accumulated on the internet, bit by bit. The project highlights how many cloud-storage services compliance with copyright laws create a facçade of persistence for our digital data.

Special thanks to Diva Helmy for documentation.