Hash Breakdown
(2024)
Hash Breakdown is a critical autonomous system constituted by an electronic and digital ensamble of microcomputers, modules, 3D prints, sensors and codes with real-time functionality.
The interface parses sentences related to the keywords “feminism is” from the world wide web and then starts a slowed-down explanatory process of converting the parsed sentence into a hash, using the SHA-256 algorithm.
What normally takes less than a millisecond, is here extended into a 4-minute explanatory cycle, represented visually within a structure imitating a simplified logic gates diagram of the very same SHA-256 hashing function.
See the project on GitHub.
Photos by Julian Fallas from the exhibition Futuros Decentralizados in Etopia Center for Art and Technology, Zaragoza, Spain.
Hash Breakdown v2 (a reduced version of Hash Breakdown), exhibited at Dutch Design Week 2024, The Netherlands. Photos by Barbara Medo.
Hash Breakdown v2 at Dutch Design Week 2024, The Netherlands. Photo by Boudewijn Bollmann. © Koelhuis Eindhoven.