00 Zhang

2024 Silver plated resin, SLA, 304 stainless steel, 316 stainless steel

104 x 70 x 77 cm

Prototype0037 is a Bio-Systemic Metaphor of NAS (Network Attached Storage). Structural and conceptual inspiration from the logic of NAS and embedded notions of redundancy, backup, and distributed architecture in RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) configurations. Within a RAID system, data is not stored in a singular location but rather dispersed, mirrored, and distributed across multiple drives, enhancing fault tolerance and system resilience. Some disks store, some rebuild, some verify—each takes on a role in
preserving the whole.
Prototype0037 system is reimagined as a posthuman model of informational encoding. It is a memory of a synthetic identity’s life cycle that stored in externalized systems. Each semi-open aluminium enclosure acts as a node, symbolizing a singular disk drive archiving and distributing the evolutionary process of a digital lifeform that mutation, replication, and collapse across containers.
‘The externalization of memory is the essence of technological evolution.’
— Bernard Stiegler
This system reflects how identity, memory, and embodiment are fragmented in the digital age. RAID 0 (Striping Without Redundancy) , is the most vulnerable, the fastest, and the most violent structure. It splits data across drives for pure speed, sacrificing safety entirely: if one disk fails, all data is lost. It is performance at the cost of memory. RAID 0 is presence without history. Ecology, bodies, and memories are compressed; echoes the development of China's The Yangtze Delta, the area where I originally from: Manufacturing executes like code, regions subdivide like data stripes, and memory, personal, ecological, historical—is overwritten, compressed, and buried under infrastructural logic. Prototype0037 is not meant to be understood, it is meant to be felt. When humans begin slicing memory with technology, we enter a game era ruled not by preservation, but by speed and erasure. RAID 0 promises extreme performance with a price of absolute oblivion.

“Faster, faster—never look back.”