The relevance of our thesis carries on...
"Memory is closely linked to forgetting. Before the digital era,
forgetting was easy, for better or worse. Not only is it biologically
in-built to forget, the analogue world around us cannot guarantee that
recorded memories will last forever.
Photographs fade, film footage can be lost and media out-dated. In
the past, remembering was the exception, forgetting the default. Only a
few decades ago, analogue photography was a limited edition of images
taken of precious moments or the everyday: our grandparents, parents,
children or ourselves. By selection, these images became meaningful,
carrying the story for, and of, an extended period of time, a life, a
person.
Now in the age of endless digital image reproduction there is no
longer a function for a selection process, and so we do not need to
forget. We externalise our memories by handing them over to the digital
realm enabled through digitisation, inexpensive storage, ease of
retrieval, global access, and increasingly powerful software, blurring
lines of ownership and making virtual forgetting close to impossible.
Hardcoded Memory is a reflection on the moment and on time itself,
standing as a metaphor for the human search for meaning and continuity,
while celebrating forgetting in the digital age.
Low-resolution portraits are projected onto the gallery wall,
generated by a hardcoded mechanical structure which in the nature of its
construction limits the selection of available images. Custom-cut
Swarovski crystal optical lenses project light from LEDs, which, motored
by rotating cams, move away from, and toward to each crystal lens,
transforming, through diffraction, the white light into a constellation
of circular projections, creating a rhythmical fading in, and fading out
of low resolution imagery on the gallery wall.
All pictorial information is hardcoded into the rotating cams of the
mechanism giving a pre-determined selection of what can be displayed by
the projector. And while the low resolution image is lending the
portraits a universal appeal, the body posture of the portrayed informs a
definite era or decade.
Experiencing the dream-like imagery on the gallery wall, the visitor
is immersed in a digital memory embedded into an analog physical object,
reinforcing Troika’s agenda of exploring rational thought, observation
and the changing nature of reality and human experience. " - Dezeen: Harcoded Memory
See the link below for the images on the website
/http://www.dezeen.com/2012/09/13/hardcoded-memory-by-troika/
