Architecture
and Memory Series, 1987-91
 Electronic Recall |
 Memory Lapse |
 Searching for Piranesi |
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 Retelling Old Stories |
 Retracing History |
 Recalling Old Stories |
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 Memory Descends and Stands Watch on the Porch |
 Among Ruins |
Traces of Gold |
They were montaged with a predecessor of PhotoShop, an image processing program that "captured" video stills that were converted to a digital file. These images usually combine a frame from a live video source, thus recording a performative interaction between artist and machine. Coincidentally, I found a parallel between my physical relationship with the computer and the use of buildings as mnemonic devices by classical orators. I had initially used the title of "architecture and memory" because of the shared vocabulary between buildings and computers: "location," "board," "space," "address," "structure," "partition," etc. However, the connection with the classical mnemonic process expanded the associative possibilitieof the words. I also found myself interested in many variations of the architectural metaphor and in the bodily aspects of computing that accompanied the cerebral ones.