Laura sub1
Long-term residency
May 2025 - April 2027
Laura sub1. Barcelona, 1995
Laura sub1 is a computational artist, non-object designer, and Internet collector exploring the intersection of 3D printing and virtual objects. Embodying the ethos of the Digital Diogenes, her work investigates cultural trends of accumulation, obsolescence, and over-saturation. Through practices of hacking, repairing, and collecting, she nurtures a culture of appreciation, sustainability, and care within digital materiality.
Laura’s research centers on the performative archive as both a poetic and political tool. She questions traditional notions of preservation by building chaotic, dynamic constellations of digital files, fragments, and objects—embracing imperfection, ambiguity, and technological failure. Her work reflects on how digital artifacts shape our understanding of memory, desire, and identity.
Utilising 3D software, she observes a transformative shift in material culture, introducing new methods for documenting cultural heritage and reshaping our understanding of matter, entities, identities, history, and politics. In her digital archiving process, Laura constructs a collection of data downloaded from the Internet, accumulating 2D representations of everyday artefacts. This practice, driven by the digital realm’s effortless capacity to save and erase, raises critical questions about the problematic nature of the Cloud, its materiality, and its ecological impact, urging a reevaluation of our digital interactions in a hyper-connected landscape.
She is currently a PhD candidate at BAU, Design and Arts University Centre. Her research project, Silly Archiving: on backlock, buffering, data hoarding —explores soft, speculative modes of storing and sensing in computational environments.
