Knowledge Lost was a gallery installation which ran from Jan 22nd, 2019 through March, 22nd 2019. It was made up of dynamic digital projections and music that were built from a real-time feed of all the deletions happening on Wikipedia. There are an average of 155,520 edits a day on Wikipedia, some portion of which are deletions. What would it be like to stand near the drain where those deletions circle in their last moments before they are gone? Knowledge Lost is a eulogy to those bits of knowledge leaving us behind. Devoid of their original context, it is one last chance for those things to be known. And also a chance to know them as things not to know.

Knowledge Lost was a collaboration between me and Chris Baldys. Chris used Node.js to scrape Wikipedia for realtime deletion data, which I then piped into a master performance system I built in MAX/MSP. He then turned that data into audio and I turned it into visuals and lighting effects.

Additionally, with a Raspberry Pi and Processing, I created a workstation where guests could interact with a retro computer to collect deletions and then turn them into found poetry. When users were finished they could print out a receipt of their poems which they could then take or leave at the gallery. Whenever an audience member successfully printed a poem the tide would come in and wash away all the cluttered remnants of previous deletions.