Rage Against the Archive

Name: Rage Against the Archive
Released: 2026-08-13
Duration: 10 min

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Release Date

8/13/2026

Runtime

10 mins

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Overview

This experimental browser-based film investigates the networked afterlives of ethnographic photographs from the 19th-century colonial publication 'The People of India' as they circulate through the New York Public Library’s digital archive. Through performative interventions and acts of Electronic Civil Disobedience that corrupt the archive’s HTML code, the artist transforms the website itself into a site of protest.

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Released

Original Language

English

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A confrontational digital artwork that weaponizes the archive itself to interrogate colonial violence and the exploitation embedded in digitization. It's a 10-minute act of resistance that unfolds in real time as code breaks and meaning ruptures.