Digital Knowledge and Collective Memory
05–15–2019
05–15–2019
Technology influences collective forms of memory. In the era
of social media, what form do cultural memory practices take today?
This paper examines popular metadata practices and their impact on collective memory. How does social media contribute to the writing - and erasure - of history? how do the algorithms of social computing replicate historical power dynamics found in the archive?
Presented for the workshop series:
Interrogating the Archive, Visual Arts Department, UCSD.
of social media, what form do cultural memory practices take today?
This paper examines popular metadata practices and their impact on collective memory. How does social media contribute to the writing - and erasure - of history? how do the algorithms of social computing replicate historical power dynamics found in the archive?
Presented for the workshop series:
Interrogating the Archive, Visual Arts Department, UCSD.
Interrogating the Archive: Shared Research Methodologies at the Intersection of Aesthetics and Authenticity
UCSD Collaboratory
https://archive.ucsd.edu/home
2017 - 2019
UCSD Collaboratory
https://archive.ucsd.edu/home
2017 - 2019
Interrogating the Archive is a collaborative research project of humanities researchers and scholars at the University of California, San Diego, which identifies, examines, and addresses the challenges of the archive.
This project endeavors to critically rethink archival practices, exploring the archive not as a passive collection of documents, but as an active and ongoing performance in the construction of historical narratives.
This project endeavors to critically rethink archival practices, exploring the archive not as a passive collection of documents, but as an active and ongoing performance in the construction of historical narratives.
Touch Grid: Material Studies
05–17–20
05–17–20
“Touch Grid” is a material study exploring the paradox of digital tactility. Composed of looping, screen-based fragments, the work reflects on the sensory absence embedded within graphical user interfaces — the smooth, untouchable surfaces that mediate our daily encounters. Interspersed among these digital gestures are images and videos of tactile encounters: hands pressing into slime, the exchange of money between palms, two people connected by string, a plaster mold forming a prosthetic foot. Together, these moments oscillate between the mediated and the material, evoking the longing for physical connection in a culture increasingly organized through screens, gestures, and immaterial contact.
Unplanned Models: Material Studies
11–16–2019
11–16–2019
Unplanned Models is a material study of urbanism and media design. The video layers a late-night walk through Echo Park with a four-part grid of photogrammetry models — abandoned couches captured on sidewalks across Los Angeles. Each rendered object becomes a fragment of the city’s informal landscape, where discarded material and digital reconstruction meet. The work considers how everyday urban residue—objects left behind, scanned, and remade—reveals the tension between lived experience and the mediated surfaces through which the city is seen and understood.
