Sarah Friend is an artist and software developer currently based in Berlin. During her residency, she will be exploring what a good death means for digital lifeforms and worlds, continuing a body of research from her fellowship with the Ethereum Foundation’s inaugural Summer of Protocols. Sarah will be creating an interactive ritual and retrospective on several digital life forms that have been maintained by art participants around the world, and researching how the digital remains left behind by communities and individuals are stored, protected, and accessed. What does a funeral look like, for our data bodies?

Sarah has exhibited at and worked with MoMA (NYC), Centre Pompidou (Metz), Kunsthaus Zürich, HEK (Basel), Haus der Kunst (Munich), ArtScience Museum (Singapore), bitforms (NYC), Albright Knox Museum (Buffalo), Rhizome (NYC) and KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin) among others.