DEL?No, wait !REW is an interactive installation, which recovers files from hard drives without the consent or the knowledge of the previous owners, who presume their content has been forever deleted. DEL?No, wait!REW asks is it possible to delete information in the digital age? Whether our storage devices are locally present (hard drives) or dislocated (the cloud), can we ever be certain our data has been permanently deleted? In an ongoing conversation around the impossibility of erasing digital traces, what role do we take? Are we plunderers, interpreters or mediators ?

Acknowledgements / Credits / With thanks to:

Javier Lloret, Brigit Lichtenegger, Aymeric Mansoux, Annet Dekker, Femke Snelting, Raya Lakova & Deep Krishnan