Remembering is an installation that features a thermal printer that performs and describes memory by slowly printing short sentences about forgetting and regretting on a paper scroll. The paper scroll is almost a person's height and feeds back into the printer in a loop. As time passes, the text is repeatedly printed over itself until it becomes illegible. The thermally sensitive paper also darkens around the corners, further obscuring the text. Over time the audience will experience different visual perceptions of the story.
Remembering replicates the idea of the limited capability of human memory, which is distorted unconsciously over time; the more one recalls, the more what is recalled changes. The slow time scale of the piece draws attention to the subtle modifications created when a text is repeated, overlapped, and blurred—human memory error and an ongoing feedback loop.
Photos from sfpc spring 2018 showcase (NYC) at sfpc, 155 Bank St, captured by Olympia Shannon
Photos from sfpc spring 2018 showcase (NYC) at sfpc, 155 Bank St, captured by Olympia Shannon
Photos from Poetic Computation: Seven Years of SFPC – Time and Memory at Westbeth Gallery, captured by Sebastián Morales Prado
Photos from sfpc spring 2018 showcase (NYC) at sfpc, 155 Bank St, captured by Olympia Shannon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVn8v_hmujE&feature=emb_logo&ab_channel=NitchaTothong
Process
Remembering was exhibited at:
sfpc spring 2018 showcase (NYC)
On Collaboration: Creative Technology Exhibition
Poetic Computation: Seven Years of SFPC – Time and Memory
Credits
Special Thanks: Kengchakaj Kengkarnka, Phil Schleihauf, Paola Gonzalez, Gonzalo Moiguer, Riley Shaw, Ed Bear, Matt Jacobson, Pedro Oliveira, Celine Katzman, Lauren Gardner, Zach Liberman, Taeyoon Choi, and sfpc community.