Art 4901 – Senior Project

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Possible quotes or prose to use for memory loss installation:

Aristole: Memory is, therefore, neither Perception nor Conception, but a state or affection of one of these, conditioned by lapse of time. As already observed, there is no such thing as memory of the present while present, for the present is object only of perception, and the future, of expectation, but the object of memory is the past. All memory, therefore, implies a time elapsed; consequently only those animals which perceive time remember, and the organ whereby they perceive time is also that whereby they remember.

Declaration of Independence: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

Florence King: “People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.”

Fight Club: "Man, I see in Fight Club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see it squandered. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war…our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off."

I'm also looking into online identity and how people are so overwhelmed by technology they have to create an online/computer identity to cope with that inundation. The result can be that people lose perception of who they are in reality, because they feel their online presence is more important. Could be interesting.

Wikipedia: Typewriter 
Thinking of using a typewriter for my first experiment... the typewriter isn't like a computer in that one can save a document a reprint later. There is one sheet of paper (and whiteout) to get it right. I enjoy the texture and nostalgia that a typewriter embodies; I myself have wonderful memories of sitting behind an old typewriter manually adjusting my margins and trying to perfect whiting out my errors without caking too much on. :) It is still technological but not so much where the human hand, the human touch, is completely hidden.

EXPERIMENT 01
Concept: Memory Decay
Material: Tissue Paper
Will type the same memory with a typewriter on 5+ pieces of tissues paper. With each version, vowels and consonants will gradually be taken out until, at the final paper, there is almost nothing left. I want to see how the typewriter treats the paper, the paper representing the frailty of a memory. I am hoping to see a gradual wear and tear. I want the tissue papers to represent a memory fading and decomposing over time—from fresh and young to torn and old.

The Disposable Memory Project

Art:21 "Memory"

Will definitely be watching this over the weekend. Netflix here I come!
Props to Jess VanV for the link (it was on your blog) :P

Wikipedia: Hippocampus
The hippocampus is a major component of the brains of humans and other mammals. It belongs to the limbic system and plays important roles in long-term memory and spatial navigation. Like the cerebral cortex, with which it is closely associated, it is a paired structure, with mirror-image halves in the left and right sides of the brain. In humans and other primates, the hippocampus is located inside the medial temporal lobe, beneath the cortical surface. Its curved shape reminded early anatomists of the horns of a ram (Cornu Ammonis), or a seahorse. The name was taken by the sixteenth century anatomist Julius Caesar Aranzi from the Greek word for seahorse (Greek: ιππος, hippos = horse, καμπος, kampos = sea monster).