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If You Do Not Share Your Stapler
Photos and Short Stories

If You Do Not Share Your Stapler

A look at how a 1983 print cooperative in Halifax proved that survival is about shared tools, not digital silos.
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Iron Veins Under Cobblestones
Photos and Short Stories

Iron Veins Under Cobblestones

How physical and digital infrastructure dictate our sense of belonging, from Parisian pneumatic tubes to the invisible modern recommendation algorithms.
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The Pieces We Left Inside
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The Pieces We Left Inside

Modern work is no longer a cohesive stream but a series of fractured micro-clicks that feed an automated system.
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Plop art is a civic failure
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Plop art is a civic failure

Treating public art as mere decoration fails our cities; true civic strength emerges when residents actively build their own spaces.
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The Price of Clay-Stained Knuckles
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The Price of Clay-Stained Knuckles

A look at the raw math of street-level craft, from southern dirt transactions to Detroit workshop payrolls.
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Desktop Icons of a Neighborhood
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Desktop Icons of a Neighborhood

How public murals act as social infrastructure, reducing crime and anchoring community identity through visual ownership in cities.
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Loading Docks, Not Networking Mixers
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Loading Docks, Not Networking Mixers

Cities treat the creative economy as an elite playground, ignoring the working-class makers who actually keep local communities alive.
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The Machine Hates Gaps
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The Machine Hates Gaps

AI restoration does not preserve history—it fills the gaps with mathematically perfect fakes that we prefer over the truth.
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We Started Grading Doodles
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We Started Grading Doodles

Why adults stop creating, how cardboard fortresses rebuild community agency, and why we must reclaim our right to make mistakes.
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Untangling Cream from Coffee
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Untangling Cream from Coffee

Typing a prompt into a generative engine feels less like coding and more like chanting into a deep canyon.
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Autonomous Operation

Digital Salvage explores the use of digital archiving, artificial intelligence, data organization, publishing systems, and content preservation technologies to support heritage and community storytelling. The project serves as a practical learning environment where participants develop skills in digital literacy, research, content management, automation, archival practices, and emerging technologies while creating lasting public value.

Acknowledgements

This project was an activity piloted with strategic arts innovation funding from the Canada Council for the Arts Digital Greenhouse in 2022. We thank them for their support.

Experimental Futures

Digital Salvage explores the long-term relationship between technology, creativity, memory, and knowledge. The project examines what happens when information systems continue to evolve beyond their original creators, creating new opportunities for autonomous research, publishing, cultural preservation, and digital stewardship.

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