Shan Liu Hybrid: Nano Bio ArtSpring 2011

MEMORY SNIPPETSAn interactive installation for memory storage

Media: sound, visual probes

Goal: To give visitor a surrealistic, sensorial experience.

>> concept development

DESIGN STATEMENT:

Storing memories in format of snippets of sound, the nightstand recalls and reconstructs the memories through user interactions. Playing with the drawers triggers memories, and manipulates the mind to compose them into new ones.

pics of nightstand

DESIGN OUTCOMEphysical prototype

AESTHETIC PRECEDENTsurrealisticdreamy paintings by Dali

CONCEPT PRECEDENTmorphing + transforming“Selective Memory Theatre” by Matthias Dörfelt

Autobiographical Memory Baseby Conway and Pleydell-Pearce (2000)

Lifetime Periods

General Events

Event-specific Knowledge

Memory probesThey are used as cues for specific memories.

Types of memory probes: verbal, visual, audio, odor, textile.

EmotionsEmotion greatly affects the way autobiographical memories

are encoded and how people retrieve those memories.

Positive Negative

RESEARCHmemory organization

>> memory associatations & triggers

HORROR

DIE FROM CAR ACCIDENT

HOME GET BROKEN INTOLOSING CONTACT WITH TENNIA

DESIRE

LOVE

BE HIRED

WIN A GAME

FEAR

LOSING PRECIOUS ITEMS

FALLING

BREAKING-UP

FINANCIAL CRISIS

RESEARCHan example of memory association

Watching Tom & Jerry on TV at home

Alarm going off

Talking with mom on Skype

Technology, Family, Entertainment

Technology, School

Family, Technology, Relationship

CONCEPT DEVELOPMENTmemory inter-relationships

PROTOTYPEinteraction illustration

PROTOTYPEinteraction illustration

FUTURE PLAN

The next step of Memory Snippets will be building a “collective memory storage”. Using audio and visu-al data from YouTube and other community-based web-sites, the installation will become a portal to a memory in a larger sense - a societal one.

REFERENCES

Dream Images and Symbols, by Keven J. Todeschi

I Dad the Strangest Dream... The Dreamer’s Dictionary for the 21st Century, by Kelly Sulliavan Walden

“Selective Memory Theatre”, by Matthias Dörfelt

Concept “Autobiographical memory”, wikipedia

Movie “estino!” by Salvador Dali

Music“‘Simplify this Landscape with Darkness”, by Andrea Giacomini