An Amalgam Loop: Persistent State is a bridge iteration between two projects; a satellite apparatus that expands the discourse of activeness of inanimate matter towards the concept of memory and dissipation. Based on a simple Python program, the Persistent State module aims to capture ephemereal phenomena by creating a persistent state of data onto physical medium (CD-RW).
Components
↪︎ CD burner, 3D print
Softwares
↪︎ Python, VCV Racks
Exhibitions
↪︎ The New Current 2026 — Connections, organized by The New Current and Rotterdam Art Week, Rotterdam (NL)
Project supportes
↪︎ Art Office, CBK Rotterdam
An Amalgam Loop: Persistent State equips the original artwork reaction with an archival function, translating its chemical performance into audio and committing it, session after session, onto a rewritable CD. Where An Amalgam Loop retains no trace of its own past behaviour, Persistent State introduces the module of memory: a capacity every living organism inherits through genetic transmission, here extended to an inorganic process.
The archive lives inside a 3D-printed housing engraved with an ouroboros, mounted on its own tripod and connected to the installation's core via SATA. At regular intervals, a CD burner erases and re-records the disc with the latest behaviour of the chemical performance.
EXTERNAL LINKS
VISUAL INDEX
THE NEW CURRENT 2026
AN AMALGAM LOOP : PERSISTENT STATE
