Fresh off the performance of the Museum of Random Memory project in Aarhus earlier this year, the MoRM team has submitted a proposal for an installation at the Bienal de Arte Digital in Brazil for 2018, titled The Museum of Random Memory: Subtecnologias. Notes from the submission are included in part below.
Subtecnologias is a site-specific intervention and participatory performance proposed
by the Museum of Random Memory (MoRM) collective for FAD Brazil 2018. The MoRM is a temporary museum that is constructed by popular participation. It explores the hybridity of contemporary life and the connection between real/simulated socio-technical worlds by asking people to donate memories of their connections/disconnections: “What do you remember of being networked? What is your first memory of living in a hybrid culture? Do you remember feeling disconnected?”
The memories that constitute the museum take the form of analogue or digital objects, images or stories. They are contributed through the intervention’s website or collected in-person by the MoRM “curators.” During the first phase of the iteration of the museum for FAD Brazil 2018, curators will visit diverse sites and communities, for one week before and during the opening of the festival, collecting artifacts and stories.
During the second phase, the display of these memories will be assembled prior to the Festival’s opening, with the collection continuing and the display growing during the first three days of the festival. At the site of Oi Futuro Flamengo, the memories will be made visible as a network of objects inside the vitrine and 3 acrylic boxes. The objects and stories will attest to the hybridity of our communication: from high-tech to slow media, from pervasive to forgotten. At the intervention website, people from all over the world can contribute their memories and see the archive of memories/connections. Memories will also be analyzed by participants and a neural network algorithm to be connected by similarities (words, topics, etc), creating an innovative network visualization of collective memory. The website’s visualizations will be presented on the old and new technology screens installed at Oi Futuro Flamengo and as a large-scale projection on the opening night.
After the period of the exhibition in Rio, the final phase of the project will be the visualization of the network of submitted digital memories and their connections at the LED screen on Atmosphera (Belo Horizonte).
More updates on this project will come once the team confirms approval of the installation.
