Portrait of a Generative Memory

Portrait of a Generative Memory

Indiara Di Benedetto
interactive installation, 2020

How does a person interpret and remember a human face? How can these memories and related emotions be communicated? As an attempt to remember individual faces while dealing with large amounts of pictures, Portrait of a Generative Memory focuses on the subjective interpretation of personal memories by collecting information about the elements that people are able to memorize about a human face. The project is centered on the relationship between observation and imagination: observation, as the method used to internalize reality through our intellect, emotions and experience; imagination, as a personal and individual interpretation of a given experience and influenced by the thinking patterns of the individual. Independent from any precise logical elaboration, it processes the content of a sensory experience. The elements of the human face that a person can remember are combined and interpreted to generate a new series of abstract and unrepeatable portraits.

Thanks to: professor Laurent Mignonneau, professor Anne Nigten, MA Fabricio Lamoncha, Mag. Gebhard Sengmüller, Interface Cultures department, Giulia Berrettoni, Juan Pablo Linares.
Special thanks to: Nomi, Patricia, Smirna, Elisa, Shawn, Deborah, Stella, Balint, Georgos, Alice, Alejandro, Amjad, Azin, Tiio, Landing, Luca