Daemon Saver is a video artwork commissioned by Hidden Edges and presented at the Elektra International Digital Art Biennale in 2024.

In computer terminology, a daemon refers to a process that runs continuously in the background, outside the user's direct control or even awareness. A screensaver, conversely, is a program that activates when a system becomes idle, historically developed to protect early monitors from screen burn-in. These two concepts—background processing and visual activation during idle states—form the conceptual and structural foundation of the work.

The piece is composed of visual material sourced from Idleplus.com (Idle Project, 2021), a platform that gathered spontaneous user-generated contributions, consisting primarily of blurry photographs and short videos of people. Daemon Saver merges these ephemeral contributions into a collection of ambiguous and evanescent moving images that become the "screensaver" of the main sculptural element: an LED structure built with two anamorphic viewpoints. Through this dual perspective, the distorted images are reconstructed and made legible in space.

The project examines the aesthetics and politics of digital residue—visual echoes of human presence that persist on the margins of the internet. The work offers a reflection on how digital infrastructures capture, archive, and reuse the traces of everyday life, suggesting that what appears idle or inconsequential may nevertheless possess latent agency. It becomes a choreography suspended between human intention and machine inertia, revealing the shifting role of the human image within contemporary technological environments.