With ‘The Last Entry,’ SOAP focuses on individual experiences of (data) loss on the internet. The internet, still presented as an inexhaustible archive of collective knowledge, proves to be an unstable and selective dispositif of digital memory: platforms are abandoned, archives closed, data deleted – decisions that actively determine the continued existence of digital spaces and whose loss represents a significant blow to digital culture, creativity and social interaction.  

Disappearing from the internet is no coincidence; it has become political and is the result of economic interests, political intervention and algorithmic decisions. 

In the form of a performative memorial site in VR Chat, SOAP's ‘The Last Entry’ creates a resonance space that combines documentary practice, digital performance and collective participation to form a walk-in landscape of memory, in which personal experiences of absence overlap and a new awareness of digital transience emerges. 

Concept & Realisation SOAP (Bettina Katja Lange, Uwe Brunner )
Web Development Macario Ortega