2026
Web-based interactive multi-channel installation with AI agent ensemble, generative text and imagery, distributed projection, a networked display system, and a mobile interaction interface
Memory is not held alone. It is shaped by the place where it is held: the languages spoken there, the weather that passes through, the infrastructures that organize daily life, the media that circulate. This is the condition the work begins from. Memory as a distributed ecology, conditioned by place, language, time, and the technical systems that carry it across them.
Short memories contributed by residents of the exhibition’s location form the work’s center. The contributors are selected through an open call during development; the memories are shared publicly, the memory-holders remain anonymous.
A distributed ensemble of AI agents forms a listening field. The agents learn the surroundings of the site, not the people who hold the memories: the languages spoken there, the climate, the infrastructures, the media that pass through. What is learned never names its source. Translation across languages is part of how the readings drift. The agents read in the languages of the site, surfacing the memories in forms that shift across linguistic registers as well as temporal ones.
Environmental signals continue to flow through, and the readings drift. The same memory reads differently at different moments of the exhibition. Projected text, distributed screens, and a mobile interface bring these layers into contact. Through their smartphones, visitors encounter each memory in its present drifting state, with traces marking where a reading has shifted.
Visitors can respond by leaving words alongside the readings. Their traces join the ongoing flow that shapes what each agent encounters next. Memory expands, contracts, and recurs in altered forms, sustaining an emotional trace even as language, image, and tone continue to shift.
To read a memory through the temporalities of a place is to find it drifting within the site’s collective conditions.
One of two related installations exploring memory as condition rather than artifact.
Developed with anonymous residents of the exhibition’s location, whose memories form the work’s center.
