lucy ellis




I was invited by Phreaking Collective to join their exhibition ‘BIT ROT’ at Copeland Gallery. 

Exhibition statement: 

“The Phreaking Collective invited visitors to BIT ROT, a group exhibition that explores the fragility, decay, and obsolescence of our digital age. Taking its name from the slow degradation of digital files over time, Bit Rot stages a post-human reflection on the technologies that once promised progress and the lives they now leave behind.

Visitors were invited into a world where bots are trained on the voices of forgotten users and inactive profiles, where decaying systems generate new poetics, and where digital forgetting becomes an act of care. Curated by a collective of computational artists born into the internet age, BIT ROT is both a mourning space and a speculative future archive.”


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Works:

TYPEFACE

Photos from BIT ROT, Copeland Gallery, by M8R8S Studio
2025

Keyboard keys, UV print, MDFTYPEFACE reflects on the artists personal experience with prolonged periods of screen time inducing blurry vision, twitching eyes and insomnia. The work uses distance to explore clarity in the image where the face is clear from far away but looses clarity when we move closer. In those periods of screen exhaustion the artist reflects on looking into the mirror at her sunken red eyes not being able to see herself clearly. 

The keyboard is e-waste sourced from eBay and the imagery is an obsolete stock image 

Edu2000


2025

Obsolete loop animations displayed on found monitorDisplayed on an apple-shaped monitor, a symbol tied to learning, the animations loop endlessly with objects and camera views cycling in place, reflecting the fleeting and repetitious nature of information and meaning in the modern age. The work resists the expectation of resolution as nothing ever quite surfaces, leaving space to contemplate information that drifts without purpose.

Material is drawn from obsolete graphic and animation from CD ROMs. The monitor is a novelty monitor from the brand Hannspree who developed a series of novelty monitors to make watching TV and content seem less damaging for their kids. 

orbital movement, zero degree of movement 

Plinth by Plinthworks, photography by M8R8S Studio 


Untitled 


2025

Obsolete digital image printed onto PCB board