The document discusses how art can comment on how technology is used to remember. It presents a thesis that explores how memories are represented through (e)memories. Several design questions are posed around what memories look like and how data degradation relates to the mind forgetting. Potential art pieces are proposed, including visualizing past conversations, projecting home videos through silhouettes, exploring raw data formats, degrading color copies, and digitally reproducing files to represent memory degradation over time.

1. Remembering And forgetting Adam Scher :: Midterm Presentation

2. “Memory about something is only as good as your last memory about it.” – Gordon Bell, Total Recall

3. PRECEDENT JIM CAMPBELL :: PHOTO OF MY MOTHER

4. PRECEDENT RAFAEL LOZANO-HEMMER:: UNDER SCAN

5. PRECEDENT PATRICK LIDDELL

6. THESIS STATEMENT HOW can a body of fine art work be used to comment on how we use technology to remember?

7. AUDIENCE • Interested in fine art • Uses digital technology regularly to document Their lives • sentimental about their personal mementos

8. DESIGN QUESTION WHAT DO MY (E)MEMORIES LOOK LIKE?

9. iCHATS : CONVERSATIONS A — Br A visualization of all of the ichat conversations I have had since 2005 in alphabetical order

12. SILHOUETTING THE PAST A performance incorporating interactive projection THAT display home videos through the silhouette of the current movement

14. SELF-PORTRAIT Diptych exploring the relationship between images and sound in .raw data format

17. DESIGN QUESTION HOW IS DATA DEGRADATION SIMILAR TO THE PROCESS OF THE MIND FORGETTING?

18. 15 COLOR COPIES AN EXERCISE IN EXPLORING THE DEGRADATION OF A TANGIBLE ARTIFACT USING TECHNOLOGY AND PHYSICAL REPRODUCTION

20. SAVE/SAVE-AS AN EXERCISE IN EXPLORING THE DEGRADATION OF A DIGITAL ARTIFACT USING TECHNOLOGY AND Digital REPRODUCTION

22. THANK YOU