SELF-PORTRAIT
270x152cm, canvas, wood, computer, projector, eye tracker, custom-made software.
"Self-portrait" is an interactive installation centered on memory. It is a speculative audio-visual and interactive exploration of the social, economic and political entanglements of autobiographical, digital and collective memories in the era of transhumanism.
Mind uploading, memory of the future and quests for eternity and power weave together a societal and personal self-portrait shaped as a digital "samsara".
In this work, eye-tracking and machine learning (GAN) operate simultaneously as technologies and metaphors, reflecting on the transformation of memory in our attention economy, the promises and risks of information storage and exploitation, techno-mythologies, and the construction of personal identity.
Additional information on Self-Portrait ︎
︎︎︎Installation view (pictures by (c)Ville de Mons / Oswald TLR.)
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Read more ︎︎︎here︎︎︎ about the Kiral World characters.
︎︎︎Credits
Sponsor
Self-Portrait is a project produced by MuseumLab, supported by FEDER (Fonds européen de développement régional) and created in collaboration with the Pôle muséal of the City of Mons and CLICK.
Self-Portrait is a project produced by MuseumLab, supported by FEDER (Fonds européen de développement régional) and created in collaboration with the Pôle muséal of the City of Mons and CLICK.
Audio credits
Alex Colville, “Hell’s bittersweet end: Meng Po, goddess of forgetfulness”, The China Project (Society & Culture), 18 January 2021.
Anders Lykke Møllgaard, Ruth Garcia, Milena Tsvetkova, Taha Yasseri, “The memory remains: Understanding collective memory in the digital age”, Science Advances, Vol 3 , Issue 4, 5 April 2017.
Christina Symko, "Collective Memory". In oboin Sociology, https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199756384/obo-9780199756384-0215.xml.
Clayton Nicola, Wilkins Clive, “Memory, mental time travel and The Moustachio Quartet”,Interface Focus, 2017, 72016011220160112 http://doi.org/10.1098/rsfs.2016.0112
Cynthia Resor, “Collective Memory: How Do Memories of the Past Inform Our Future?”, Social Studies, 26 August 2020.
Marie-Claire Ropars-Wuilleumier, « L’image-mémoire, ou l’écriture de l’oubli », Hors Cadre, no 9 (« Film/Mémoire »), PUV, mars 1991.
Michael Graziano, “What happens if your mind lives for ever on the internet?”, The Guardian (The Observer Computing), 20 October 2019.
Randal Koene, “Uploading to Substrate-Independent Minds”, The Transhumanist Reader pp.146-156, March 2013.
Alex Colville, “Hell’s bittersweet end: Meng Po, goddess of forgetfulness”, The China Project (Society & Culture), 18 January 2021.
Anders Lykke Møllgaard, Ruth Garcia, Milena Tsvetkova, Taha Yasseri, “The memory remains: Understanding collective memory in the digital age”, Science Advances, Vol 3 , Issue 4, 5 April 2017.
Christina Symko, "Collective Memory". In oboin Sociology, https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199756384/obo-9780199756384-0215.xml.
Clayton Nicola, Wilkins Clive, “Memory, mental time travel and The Moustachio Quartet”,Interface Focus, 2017, 72016011220160112 http://doi.org/10.1098/rsfs.2016.0112
Cynthia Resor, “Collective Memory: How Do Memories of the Past Inform Our Future?”, Social Studies, 26 August 2020.
Marie-Claire Ropars-Wuilleumier, « L’image-mémoire, ou l’écriture de l’oubli », Hors Cadre, no 9 (« Film/Mémoire »), PUV, mars 1991.
Michael Graziano, “What happens if your mind lives for ever on the internet?”, The Guardian (The Observer Computing), 20 October 2019.
Randal Koene, “Uploading to Substrate-Independent Minds”, The Transhumanist Reader pp.146-156, March 2013.
Special thanks
Maxime Vander Goten, Maracas Studio.
Maxime Vander Goten, Maracas Studio.
