this is so, so wonderful. [click "in the white darkness" to begin. when you're at the screen with the pulsing dots, try clicking a bunch of them at once and watch what happens. it's amazing how much a program approximates how memory works...]
the artists on the work [reiner strasser & m.d. coverley]"
"ii — in the white darkness: about [the fragility] of memory" is an interactive piece about memory. The work was created by Reiner Strasser in collaboration with M.D. Coverley (Marjorie Coverley Luesebrink) over a period of 9 months in 2003/04. It assimilates and reflects the experience with patients fallen ill with Alzheimer's or Parkinson's diseases, showing the fragility and fluidity of memory from a subjective point of view. "It was not the erasure that mattered so much as the act of trying to recover what we no longer can identify." (M.D. Coverley) From the pulsing dots of the background-interface different events can be started, played, and combined. In this process the experience of remembering and loss of memory can be re-created in the appearance and disappearance of words, pictures, animations, and sounds. Memories (readable with a general metaphorical meaning) are unveiled and veiled in transition at the same time, arranged by or using your own memory.
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ahhhh!!!!!! this is so incredible! how do you ever find such things?!?!?
(and i generally hate exclamation points but they feel so extremely appropriate at the moment!!!!)
i wish i had more time to type a substantiative comment, but we spent a good month studying the affect of cognitive disorders on memory in neuroscience last semester, and i spent a lot of time thinking about the visual (if somewhat abstract) implication of the affect of such disorders on our actual neurological processes. for the moment, all i can say is: brilliant. perfect. brilliant and perfect.
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