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2007 Rockefeller New Media Foundation Proposal

Author
Flax, Carol
Abstract
"Memoria/memoi'" is a project about the memory process, how we gain, lose and
share memories and how through our senses and emotions we archive, access
and change memory over time. The project exists as an interactive installation
and website, both serving to collect memories from the visiting audience and
relate common threads of experience, drawing the connections between our
memories to those of the other viewers, as well as changes to our own memories
over time. The memoria/memoir installation begins by gathering personal stories
told by visitors speaking into a microphone in a recording booth. Visitors' stories
are added to a continually growing database of recorded memory consisting of
text, audio and visuals. Once the viewer relays a memory, it is archived into the
database and added to the collective memories already stored there. Through
the connection of key words linked to each visitor's previously recorded
documentation along with other people's stories already within the database, a
new series of multi-sensory stories are presented to visitors as they move
through the space. The experience is an immersive environment that the viewer
both participates in and observes, tying together the larger questions of personal
memory, the way we record and remember, and how through the functions of
memory consolidation and reconsolidation, memory is mutable and changing
over time.
Date Issued
2009-03-30Subject
Banff New Media Institute; interactive installation; web art; memory; archiving; collaborative storytelling; collective memory; adoption; family