Databank of the Everyday (CD-ROM 1996)
takes as its subject the real everyday uses of computers in our culture: storage, transmission, dissemination and filtration of massive bodies of information.

The project reflects on what media -- from photography to computers -- have always attempted to do: represent, organize and catalogue life into well defined lists and categories. Photography, for example, begins and ends its life as a catalogue, from photography's inventor William Fox Talbot's photographic inventories of bourgeois collections to its final condition, digitized into electronic image banks.
If photography and the desire to voraciously collect visual data emerged from 19th Century Positivism, 21st Century information fetishization and the subsequent need for control leads to a new more efficient method of cataloguing and storing information: the databank.

Databank of the Everyday,,presents the ultimate databank, one with no conceivable limits: a databank of Life Itself; not in an altered idealized state, but rather, at its most prosaic. Modeled after commercial image databanks with their all encompassing and generic categories such as "People at Leisure,","Nine to Five" and "Nature," Databank's categories are no less all encompassing and include "Wasting Time," "Nervous Habits," and "Antonyms."