Curator
Vector Festival, InterAccess
July 10 – August 9, 2025
Featuring Alicia Guo, Daze Jefferies, Alex Raja Ven, Ruby J Thelot, and Nara Wrigglesworth, and SA Smythe.
What exists online will remain indexed forever—at least that’s what the ubiquity of the web might lead us to believe. But the digital realm we inhabit tells a different story: one populated with broken hyperlinks, dead websites, finite memory, and technology ceaselessly hurtling towards obsolescence. Rather than chase an imagined space of digital immortality, how might we begin to come to terms with the broken archival promises of digital media? What would it mean to give into the ecstatic euphoria of forgetting, with reverence for the deleted, the unarchived, and the unfound?
404_not_found, Vector Festival’s 2025 flagship exhibition, considered notions of permanence associated with the web, featuring works from Alicia Guo, Daze Jefferies, Alex Raja Ven, Ruby J Thelot, and Nara Wrigglesworth. These artists reposition the anti-archival and ephemeral qualities of digital memory as generative, reframing decay as a distinct but equal counterpart to growth.
An accompanying performance from SA Smythe staged an encounter with the anarchival—offering an embodied meditation on what cannot or should not be kept, and on the pain and power in being mis/remembered. The performance engaged works from Vector Festival’s 2025 flagship exhibition and disordered, decaying materials from InterAccess’s archive: floppy disks, administrative records, marginalia, Betamax tapes, and other half-collected ephemera.
Documentation by Philip Maglieri and Liam Mackenzie
Dallas Fellini 