Our work evolved from discussion about how digitisation is rapidly replacing paper copies of records and documents. Amazingly Sonia had an old Apple Mac with the screen removed. Looking at the circuit boards behind the screen was thought provoking. The components were surprisingly dusty and dead looking. Also because the area of circuit boards revealed by removing the screen was obviously screen shaped, it could be easily imagined in a “trippy” kind of experience that what was being viewed was a digital computer image of circuit boards rather than the real circuit boards. 
In a playful move we decided to project a video of Ordnance Survey maps being “worked upon” on to the Apple Mac’s circuit boards. This included using a soldering iron to melt solder along roads marked on the maps and sticking copper tape and drawing along the roads. OS maps were chosen as these are no longer being printed due to the increasing use of maps available on the internet. The video was amusing with a cluster of hands busy at work but also beautiful with glistening balls of melted solder and lines of ink snaking along the roads. Furthermore although the map was visible in the video it sometimes appeared that our hands holding the soldering iron and other tools were working on the circuit boards rather than the map.The work starkly revealed the reality of where we are now increasing entrusting our records and documents. Also a curious and somehow appropriate disorientation was created throughout with the Apple Mac’s circuit boards sometimes being perceived as a real object and sometimes as a digital version of itself.
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