BITROT Exhbition

The Phreaking Collective is a London-based group of emerging computational artists working across code, sculpture, sound, installation, and digital media. Formed in 2025, the collective takes its name from phreaking, a term initially used to describe the subversive practice of hacking telephone systems in the 1960s and 70s. Drawing from this lineage of creative mischief and network disruption, the Phreaking Collective reclaims the term as a gesture toward experimentation, resistance, and intimacy within digital systems.

We invite you to Bit Rot, a group exhibition that explores the fragility, decay, and obsolescence of our digital age. Taking its name from the slow degradation of digital files over time, Bit Rot stages a post-human reflection on the technologies that once promised progress and the lives they now leave behind.

This is our first exhibition under The Phreaking Collective, and we were lucky enough to be given a great space in SE15, however most of us still being students and/or recent graduates - finding funding and self supporting can be difficult. We would really appreciate any donations to help make this exhibition possible.

Alongside the exhibition, the Phreaking Collective will host a weekend of free public programming, including hands-on workshops, artist talks, live performances, and community events. This will open access to new forms of digital literacy, storytelling, and cultural memory.

We are excited to see you there.

Many thanks,

The Phreaking Collective

The Phreaking Collective website

Show opens: 8 - 10 August, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Private View: 7 August, 6:00 - 9:00 PM