The Phreaking Collective invited visitors to Bit Rot, a group exhibition that explores the fragility, decay, and obsolescence of our digital age. Taking its name from the slow degradation of digital files over time, Bit Rot stages a post-human reflection on the technologies that once promised progress and the lives they now leave behind.
Visitors were invited into a world where bots are trained on the voices of forgotten users and inactive profiles, where decaying systems generate new poetics, and where digital forgetting becomes an act of care. Curated by a collective of computational artists born into the internet age, Bit Rot is both a mourning space and a speculative future archive.
Alongside the exhibition, the Phreaking Collective hosted a weekend of free public programming, including hands-on workshops, artist talks, live performances, and community events. This will open access to new forms of digital literacy, storytelling, and cultural memory.
