Memory Artifact
When deciding what to do my memory artifact on it was suggested in the seminar that I could ask members of my family or myself about the memories of my uncle being in the 1991 Gulf War. This interested me but in a way I wanted to do something away from that, and with the obstruction being make something you’ve not done before and and do something different and abstract I didn’t know how I could do this with the topic of war and missing the person out there. I was scared it would not look or sound serious or the meaning might be lost.
I was watching a program on Alzheimer’s and it got me thinking about my memories and how I hate to lose them as I’ve got some that I definitely would hate to forget. Tucked away in the depths of my computer I found photos and video clips of things I consider memories I don’t want to forget. I also found on the research and development page links to vimeo and a filmmaker called Karen Abad and while looking at some of her films came across ones that were called Memory Bank and had a serial number. I found these films very interesting to watch and it was also like she was creating her very own memory log. Of the few that I watched they all seemed to have a look as though someone had plugged into her mind and was seeing an un sequenced video playback, the same way our memories appear to us inside our head.
So I decided to make a memory bank of my own using video and pictures of my memories.
Here is one of Karen Abads films.
