The Internet Archive is a non-profit library offering access to millions of free books, movies, and music, plus an archive of 400+ billion web pages.
Record Ruins by Adam Ferriss
Adam Feriss’ Record Ruins is alternate slice of archive.org where one file begets another. Culled from screenshots, old graphics recordings, and computer schematics, the documents are spun through an array of custom algorithms to re-sort and degrade the source material into pixelated specters of their former lives.
The final project is a set of interactive environments, gifs, and videos resembling a segment of corrupted archive. Each document’s source files have been uploaded to the archive for posterity and future reworkings.