CONSTRUCTED MEMORIES EXPLANATION
Constructed Memories explores the way human memory is built, evolves, and reshapes itself throughout our lives.
The work examines how encounters with new people and AI-generated false imagery fundamentally alter our recollections, blurring the lines of our internal history.
Originally designed for a five-screen digital display, version 2.0 has been reimagined as a site-specific installation for the Digital Graffiti festival, functioning as a physical data sculpture that integrates with the surrounding architecture.
ICONIC MEMORY
”Iconic Memory” goes thru approx. 100.000 images database 30 images per seconds.
Iconic memory is the fleeting visual component of sensory memory that preserves an exact mental image for less than half a second.
Despite its momentary nature, it boasts a large capacity, capturing nearly every detail of a visual scene before the information rapidly decays or is filtered into working memory.
This brief neural persistence is what creates visual continuity, transforming a series of static images into a seamless experience and allowing us to perceive the world as a fluid, uninterrupted flow rather than a sequence of disconnected flashes.
EPISODIC MEMORY
”Episodic Memory” combines several layers of images together creating dreamlike overlapping images. It refreshes in every 10 seconds.
Episodic memory is the long-term system responsible for storing and recollecting the personal experiences that make up your life story.
Unlike general facts, these memories are ”autobiographical,” tied to a specific time and place and often imbued with the emotions you felt at the moment.
It allows for a type of ”mental time travel,” where you can mentally re-experience a past event, such as your first day of school or a recent dinner with a friend, by reconstructing the sensory details and sequence of actions.
Because these memories are reconstructed rather than played back like a video, they are uniquely vivid but can also be influenced by your current perspective and feelings over time.
CHILDHOOD STORIES
”Childhood stories” are deeply personal, drawn from my own memories of growing up and finding my way.
My work keeps me constantly traveling, so the birth of my child brought a sobering realization: what would they have left of me if I were involved in a fatal accident?
This thought grew into a mission to preserve my life in my own voice, resulting in dozens of hours of recorded stories.
Channel randomly selects phrases and fragments from these recordings, using them as prompts for real-time AI to generate new interpretations of my own life.
FALSE MEMORIES
”False Memories”.
Real-time AI is trained on the project’s own visual data, drawing from a collage of images within the ”Episodic Memory” channel to guide its composition.
The narrative is driven by text fragments from the ”Childhood Stories” channel, which serve as the prompts for the generation.
Together, these elements create a shifting digital landscape where personal history and machine learning intersect, blurring the line between authentic recollection and reconstructed imagination. Artwork also uses realtime human recognition technology, which shapes the composition when human is tracked.
CONSTRUCTED MEMORIES
”Constructed Memories”.
This channel serves as a space where authentic recollections and AI-generated false memories synergize into a single experience, producing an abstract and dreamlike flood of imagery.
The visuals exist in a state of constant metamorphosis, creating a fluid landscape where the boundary between truth and fabrication completely dissolves.
It captures the essence of how our minds rebuild the past, blending what actually happened with the distorted fragments of imagination to create a seamless, ever-changing stream of consciousness.
The work also utilizes real-time Open CV technology to detect the presence of viewers within the space.
Whenever a person is observed, their unique features subtly shift the composition, artistically mirroring how every new human connection causes us to alter and reinterpret our own memories.
This interaction ensures that the piece is never static, transforming the audience into an active catalyst that reshapes the past through the lens of the present.
SOUNDSCAPE
The soundscape is built from field recordings captured in places that hold deep personal significance.
Some of these sounds have been used to train an AI, which has generated its own interpretations in the form of drone-like echoes.
These audio clips are processed through a granular sampler and woven into a classical composition style based on dodecaphony and the overtone series.
The result is a sonic environment where raw, physical reality blends with mathematical theory and machine-generated resonance, mirroring the way emotions and structures shape our auditory memory