Memory
Louksor, art for memory.
Last revised 9/5/2014. Return to Major concepts. See beings, perenniality.
Art works
Until now (Aug. 2014), digital art works are "passive" memories (an image, a text) of include memory excluvely for their operation (programs, current data, immediate parameters of interaction). It would be interesting to go much further, for instance with works which would remember their spectators and dialogs, as do games, for instance. .
- What makes an image memorable? (from MIT news, 2011).
Digital hardware and software
For years up to 2005, see the terms mémoire and bases de données in our Dictionnaire des Stic (in French). Otherwise, see Wikipedia.
Individual human memory
- Read Proust, and notably the long passages related to Vinteuil's sonata.
- See Bergson and Deleuze.
Collective memory
- Memorization by institutional devices. There are ethico/policy (conservation of private data), but also aesthetical role repartition.
- The website of
Crumb (Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss).
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