Details
- When: 2023-2025
- Project Link: Memory Maps
- Project type: Exhibits & Installations
Memory Maps is a collaborative, ongoing installation that interrogates what it means to be human in a world that is increasingly shifting toward the machine. A response to the explosion in popularity of large language models, particularly in how they consume and flatten work from artists and writers without proper attribution, Memory Maps imagines what an ethical, community-based technological system might look like, independent of artificial intelligence. The system invites the visitor to the installation to participate as a creator, both crediting them, and choreographing a continual conversation between the past and the future.
Zhou and Shepherd presented their in-progress work on Memory Maps at the Fall 2024 international ISAM Conference (conference poster here).
The installation is currently on display in the Scholars’ Lab (Shannon Library 308), and will eventually travel to other locations as well.
Collaborators:
- Holly Zhou, Critical Makerspace Fellow 2023-2025
- Ammon Shepherd, Makerspace Managers & Lead Research Technologist