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14.10.03 Molecular Media Project, distracting digital data.
Some substances can rearrange the usual binary mechanisms of digital machines, such as Polyaniline (a sort of organic dust with 'metallic' characteristics) and white titanium dioxide, but most of all som mushrooms, such as Pycnoporus Cinnabarinus, which lives on CD and DVD surfaces. Cameron L. Jones, a researcher at the Centre for Mathematical Modeling of the University of Victoria, Australia, is the supervisor of the Molecular Media Project, which scientifically documents this kind of induced interactions, experimenting with different substances and recording the repercussions both on video and audio media. On the website can be found several examples which reveal the techniques of data storage and retrieving in an easily comprehensible way, metaphorically putting very little sand between the digital gears. In the aseptic world of computer technologies, in fact, these works are a concrete attempt at reconsidering their already compromised stability towards an intrinsic characteristic of every automated system: the error.