Upon researching my theme I came across the work of David Szauder and his recent collection of work ‘Failed memories’. In this series he explores the parallels between our memory and that of a computer.
“I am inspired by the parallels I see between human memory and computer memory: our brains store away images to retrieve them later, like files stored away on a hard drive. But when we go back and try to re-access those memories, we may find them to be corrupted in some way.
When we see a picture we are able to remember the details, but only for a short period. In the long term we start to lose parts of the details and we fill the gaps with our self-generated memories instead of those lost fragments.
I always add a short narrative to each photo, which often allows to imagine why the subject’s appearance, and sometimes their mind, has been altered.”
https://archaeologyofmemory.wordpress.com/2016/07/25/david-szauder-failed-memories/
It comes from his idea that when we see a picture, we remember what was happening in it but only for a short period, as over time the memories become broken or fragmented and we fill the gaps we have forgotten with self generated memories we believe have happened. Like a computer storing images, there is a possibility that when you go back to find the image the file is corrupted. To evoke this idea Szauder modifys the images using various editing software and focuses mainly on glitching the face or head to achieve this look.
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