TEMP.FILES Season 4: Death and Data

We have migrated to Substack to continue to bring you temp.files news and are thrilled to announce the upcoming launch of Season 4, Death and Data, beginning October 1st and rolling out monthly through 2025.

We’re misled by the momentary span of each individual life, and by technology’s attempt to reduce and define us. We live in conditions actively trying to annihilate populations, and rightly, we protest and resist, and we grieve from our depths. Death inspires fear and awe and heartbreak. It’s the most primal opening into a wildly unknowable place. The data of life, its scents of flesh and blood, and death, are encoded in and created by our bodies, experiences, and technologies. This data pulls us both toward an unknowable future and our most primal ancestral past, with its ancient taboos and drives. Our ephemeral bodies create, carry, filter, and interpret all knowable data, objects, time-codes and thought-forms. Data points us toward historic relics, impressions left by the dead, coded into hard drives, digital records, and the ever-expanding web. What is this afterbody, and how does it soften into the noise of all that is? Program runs approximately 1 hour and 20 minutes.

Season 4 artists include:

Emily Brandt (Oct)
Eva Davidova (Oct)
Jillian McDonald (Oct)

Thank you to our cohosts VTAPE and Saloon Toronto for hosting a wonderful screening of temp.files videos, organized by Rah Eleh and Jillian McDonald.

Featured works:

• Benjamin Rosenthal, from this side of space to the other side of the signal (2017, 9:53)

• Eva Davidova, Menino Terrival (2025, 6:45)

• Jillian McDonald, Total Eclipse and the Heart (2025, 10:00)

• Hanae Utamura, In the Atom (2024, 9:02)

• Rah Eleh, Prompt: Technofetishism (2025, 7:32)

• Emily brandt, across bodies (2024, 9:38)

• Michelle Levy, In Search of Foreign Objects (2022, 5:49)

• Christine Cheung, Passage (2025, 3:50)

• Nung-Hsin, Incurable Nostalgia (2020, 3:17)

• Rachel Stevens, The Pig is Going Through the Python (2025, 8:46)

• Leigh Davis, Ashes, Ashes (2025, 5:33)

• Tusia Dabrowska,OAK (2025, 9:49)

temp.files (aka Temporary Files), a video publishing cooperative, online publication, streaming site, and remote residency. We are an expanding and rotating group of artists working between text, social engagement, performance and media, committed to supporting each other in the process of creating new, experimental work.