bit rot
2023
Bit Rot came from a simple question: do we actually know where the works we collect are kept? Each banknote pairs a face with a building, Alan Turing in front of the New York Stock Exchange for example, and its surface is a mosaic of other artists' works. When one of them can no longer be reached, its tile falls back to a coarser copy or goes dark. Each note mixes private servers, IPFS, Arweave and onchain storage, so each one rots at its own speed. In October 2026 a collector reported the first lost pixels.