Drawing on the contemporary debate around the anthropocene, Petrified Media speculates on the deep future of electronic waste as it sediments into Earth’s stratigraphic record. An iPhone 5 was sliced into cross-sections, each of which was melted at temperatures between 1000ºC and 1500ºC in a geological furnace. These molten fragments were then processed, photographed and analysed using the instruments and experimental processes of petrology. By applying the techniques of geology to a hypothetical technofossil, the work seeks to materialise a now inevitable scenario in which discarded technologies become part of the planet’s geology, their high concentrations of scarce metals combining to form new minerals that will evidence today’s technological civilisation long after its demise. With essays by Siobhan Angus, Jan Zalasiewicz & Stephen Cornford.
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