ARCHAEOLOGY OF ALGORITHMIC ARTEFACTS

As historical processes increasingly become steeped in technology, it becomes more and more necessary for a discipline to emerge tha t is capable of comprehending these materialities beyond their shelf life to better understand the fields they inundate such as scie nce, art, and warfare. This effort is further compromised by the inherent complexity and complete arbitrariness of technical languag es especially when they are algorithmic along with the rapid pace in which they become obsolete, unintelligible, or simply forgo tten.