forcing everything i've lost to return.
Themis Kung
[Themis]: it started when i became obsessed with finding livestreams i made in the early 2010s on the family ipad on a now-defunct app. they always tell you once something is on the internet, it’s there forever. so... i should find those livestreams, right?
[User]: Who's they?
[Themis]: doesn't matter. wasn't the early era of apps appearing and vanishing overnight fascinating? to me, they go against the notion that things on the internet are... forever
[User]: But what am I looking at? A video, a website, a book, slabs of …. marble?
[Themis]: well i wanted to document the process. and i wondered if my birth videos survived
[User]: Your birth?
[Themis]: yes. i wondered... which would be found first
[User]: Well, where are they?
[Themis]: couldn't find either. so i wanted to make an experience to reflect this. preservation is a tough task
[Themis]: then i thought... if i can't find my past creations ... how can i preserve the things i’ve now made? do you ever worry about that
[Themis]: i thought about religious texts carved into stone. they've lasted. like they're working with nature... that's my answer
[User]: So opposites work for preserving things?
[Themis]: pretty much. there's a cycle: digitize, back up, and return to analog
[Themis]: i guess, in some ways, this sums up the last seven months of my life
[Themis]: i'm perpetually losing and finding things...