Exhibition: Clouds

"In our present, traces of the past hover"
- Carlo Rovelli

According to philosopher Luciano Floridi, historical periods were defined by how we lived - not when or where. This era is marked by platform economics and user-data-driven social media, yet the text-based character familiar from recent history stubbornly persists: IRC, teletext, and ad-free browsers still live in modern devices.

Even more distant traces of the past await discovery in the local library. Aristophanes' comedy "Clouds" from 400 BCE resonates on surprisingly similar wavelengths as IRC conversations.

The exhibition functions as a netnographic commentary on the play "Clouds". Sampled dialogues, archived excerpts, and the noise of history are preserved fragments of what may have existed before - and an invitation to reflect on the spaces where texts, regardless of format, are archived for future readers.

The exhibition's creator, Lea Hakala, is a data scientist and humanities graduate who currently works with textile art and open-source code.