2023
Nokia 5110 phone screens, wires, Raspberry Pi
Nokia 5110 phone screens, wires, Raspberry Pi
SLOOOG is a three-screen installation that explores the transmutable nature of data across physical objects and time. Using Nokia 5110 screens, the work examines how digital information moves fluidly between physical interfaces. The screens act less as destinations and more as temporary vessels, stopping points in an ongoing transmission. Despite the screens being obsolete, data is still able to ingress into these screens bodies.
Once a defining symbol of early 2000s technology, the Nokia phone embodied durability, accessibility, and for many, the experience of owning a first mobile device. Two decades later, the same technology has slipped into obsolescence, recast as “low tech.” The Nokia 5110 screen now circulates as a cheap computing component, its transformation marking the fall from a generation-defining object to a disposable part. SLOOOG stages this trajectory, asking how technological icons persist, dissolve, and return in altered forms.
Once a defining symbol of early 2000s technology, the Nokia phone embodied durability, accessibility, and for many, the experience of owning a first mobile device. Two decades later, the same technology has slipped into obsolescence, recast as “low tech.” The Nokia 5110 screen now circulates as a cheap computing component, its transformation marking the fall from a generation-defining object to a disposable part. SLOOOG stages this trajectory, asking how technological icons persist, dissolve, and return in altered forms.