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  • A diminutive figure, childlike, very thin seen from a distance
  • Working alone in a vast storage facility
  • Her job is to mine artefacts of the dead
  • The storage facility is a giant repository of objects; letters, photos, books, rotting fruit, the remnants of things, of lives
  • On closer inspection we see she is not quite human, a digital actor
  • She identifies objects, names them, classifies them, turns them to data, archives the objects, the information will be recycled
  • Everything must be returned to raw information so it can be used again

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