in-progress, 2026
Multi-channel audiovisual installation with AI-mediated temporal processes and a distributed networked system.
Keepsakes in Every Hair ~ Migration explores memory as something altered in transit. Shaped by migration, translation, and uneven belonging, the work approaches memory not as a stable record to be retrieved, but as a set of fragments continually changed as they move across bodies, places, media, and technical systems. Rather than preserving memory in fixed form, the installation stages its dispersal, recombination, and drift as a perceptual condition.
Developed in collaboration with artists working across sound and space, the installation unfolds through six interacting temporalities: human, liminal, environmental, digital, infrastructural, and more-than-human. These temporal streams do not resolve into a single timeline or unified account. Instead, they register the same fragments unevenly, producing a distributed field in which memory is differentially sensed, delayed, translated, foregrounded, and lost across multiple perceptual conditions at once.
Within this field, AI operates not as the center of the work but as one nonhuman perceiving layer among others. Trained to detect patterns, recurrences, and residual signals, it encounters archived images, text, sound, and environmental input according to different thresholds of attention and relevance than human listeners, moving bodies, or spatial acoustics. Piano motifs, projected imagery, and textual fragments emerge, recede, and reappear as these distinct perceptual systems come into contact, misalign, and reorganize one another.
Computation functions here as one material and temporal agent within a broader collaborative ecology rather than a totalizing authorial force. By allowing memory to be differently sensed across human, machinic, atmospheric, and spatial processes, Keepsakes in Every Hair ~ Migration constructs an unstable environment in which formation and dispersal occur simultaneously. What appears never fully settles into permanence; what recedes continues to shape the space as residue, delay, and background condition.
