memory
Orbital Temple – Reclaiming the Space Imaginary
Orbital Temple is an artwork and a functional satellite created by Edson Pavoni. Launching into space in January 2026, its memory holds billions of names, and anyone on Earth can send one.
The Anemoia Device – A Scent-Memory Machine
The Anemoia Device uses generative AI to distill photos into bespoke fragrances. This scent-memory machine, guided by language and visual models, creates a singular scent composition, evoking anemoia: nostalgia for a life you never lived.
In Place – Re-inscribing markers of memory
In Place is an illustrative visual mapping of headstones found in London parks, seeking to acknowledge their continued presence and re-inscribe them into the contemporary urban landscape.
Memoria – Fragility of human connections
Memoria is an experimental photo album application that visualizes the fading of human connections: as the shared moments decrease, the people in the photo album gradually disappear.
Synthetic Memories – Unlocking the past to enrich the present (and the future)
Synthetic Memories is an initiative that recreates and preserves personal memories at risk of being lost. By converting spoken and written descriptions into visual images, it helps individuals reconnect with their past and maintain the continuity ...
// FON_OS – Presence and Transformation
// FON_OS is a collaborative audiovisual performance and a research project by Fon Román and Oswaldo García that explores how heritage spaces can be reimagined as living instruments through the fusion of real-time sound improvisation and architect...
What Can a Cell Remember?
Claire writes for Quanta Magazine about a small but group of neuroscientists exploring whether cells record past experiences — fundamentally challenging what memory is.
The Collapse of a Microcosm – Sensory ecology that remembers
The Collapse of a Microcosm is a site-specific sound and light installation that engages in a continuous dialogue with its environment—a living archive of the present as it fades into the past.
PA3L – Synthetic Memory Interfaces
PA3L is an ongoing art project that explores the hazy boundaries between memory, identity, and technological mediation. PA3L takes the form of digital artifacts, each centered on a fictional avatar called SYNC3R, both human and machine, exists wit...
Egg – A time capsule
The Egg is a time capsule that keeps an object or message secret. At the date and time of your choice, it hatches to reveal its contents. It can be used to give something important to a loved one or to yourself.
Latent Imaging and Imagining – Queer mode of accessing childhood memories
Latent Imaging and Imagining is part of an autoethnographic artistic research study to explore the concept of chrononormativity through an inverted perspective of nonconforming and how to negotiate a careful and queer mode of accessing childhood m...
Melting Memories – Drawing neural mechanisms of cognitive control
Created by Refik Anadol, "Melting Memories" is a series of digital artworks that explore materiality of remembering by offering new insights into the representational possibilities of EEG data collected on the neural mechanisms of cognitive control.
Random Access Memory – Materialising mathematical process (algorithm)
Created by Berlin based Ralf Baecker, Random Access Memory is a fully functional digital memory. Instead of operating on semi-conducting components to represent either the binary states of 0 (zero) or 1 (one), the memory uses grains of sand as sto...
Perception, Data Collection and Memory – Ishac Bertran
Continuing his exploration of personal objects in the age of information overload, Manual Reader and Memory Device are two new devices by Ishac Bertran that address perception, personal data collection and memory.
