Lunar Archive (2024)
The Lunar Archive project is a fictional story based on a real threat: the large-scale loss of digital data, which would lead to societal collapse. With their fragile components and limited lifetimes, digital devices are not built to last. Even cloud backup is not safe as computers crash, servers crash, connections time out and hard drives malfunction.
In this possible scenario of data loss, the Lunar Archive takes as its starting point the hypothetical safeguarding of a pivotal moment in human history, the iconic moon landing. A team of scientists is searching for remote locations that contain landscapes unique in their similarity to the lunar surface, ideal for recording a backup copy of the moon landing.
The project includes NASA archival material, texts using artificial intelligence models and photography
In this possible scenario of data loss, the Lunar Archive takes as its starting point the hypothetical safeguarding of a pivotal moment in human history, the iconic moon landing. A team of scientists is searching for remote locations that contain landscapes unique in their similarity to the lunar surface, ideal for recording a backup copy of the moon landing.
The project includes NASA archival material, texts using artificial intelligence models and photography
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Elena Efeoglou, Lunar Archive, 2024, archival material from NASA The Project Apollo Archive, AI generated text
Elena Efeoglou, Lunar Archive, 2024, fine art print on dibond, 5Ox100cm
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Lunar Archive (2024) installation view, MOMus-Experimental Center for the Arts, Thessaloniki, Greece, Curated by: Domna Gounari, MOMus Curator
