New Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts exhibition highlights harmful impact of digital technology on environment
(Artdaily.org)

In this day and age – when photos sit on the cloud, spam is archived in email accounts, and “trash” icons on computer desktops collect the vestiges of once-useful files – it is easy to think of the digital world as offering infinite resources without having any real, material impact on the world around us. But is that true? What really counts as “trash” and is the effect of digital technology on the environment much greater than we realize? Those are the questions piling up in the Rutgers–Camden Center for the Arts’ new thought-provoking exhibition, “Digital Trash,” running from Sept. 5 to Dec. 7 in the Stedman Gallery. Gallery hours are Monday to Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The exhibition, curated by Director James Brown and Associate Director Robert Emmons of the Digital Studies Center at Rutgers University–Camden, draws attention to the various ways in which digital