Stored Memories

Since ancient times, memories have been linked to recording history — from stone tablets and papyrus scrolls to film, magnetic tape, CD-ROMs, hard drives, and cloud storage. Stored Memories traces that arc into the blockchain era, where digital storage offers a way to safeguard memories beyond our lifetimes — a form of digital immortality that was once unthinkable.

Each animation visualises a different failure mode of digital memory. Dead Man Walking asks what happens to our digital footprint when storage mechanisms break. De-Fragmented draws on the nostalgia of old Windows Disk Defragmentation applications as a metaphor for how memories become fragmented over time, and how we rely on photographs, documents, and other artifacts to reconstruct our pasts. Memory Loss depicts identity as a collage of digital storage entries, fraying at the edges as organic recall fades and we lean ever harder on our digital surrogates.

A companion screen print edition of Memory Loss was produced alongside the digital works — an archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308gsm in a varied edition of 50 unique prints, hand-signed and numbered by the artist. The physical edition bridges the collection across mediums, a tangible artefact about the fragility of the digital.