in-progress, 2026
Interdisciplinary collaboration. Distributed networked installation with AI agent ensemble, live piano performance, and spatial sound.
Memory is not known through one time alone. It becomes legible across several temporalities at once, inferred through conditions that keep shifting rather than settling into a single account. The work begins from this condition: a memory that remains while the temporal contexts reaching toward it continue to move.
Migration names this movement. What changes is often not the memory itself but the location, the body, the language, the social world, and the historical conditions through which the memory is encountered. The work studies this through one life trajectory: the temporal conditions a life moved through, and how a memory situated within them continues to be encountered as those conditions shift.
A distributed ensemble of AI lenses approaches the memory through different scales of time. They do not learn the person. They learn the conditions that surrounded the memory’s occurrence and persistence: weather, geography, infrastructure, media environments, and historical transitions. The memory remains the shared anchor. The lenses gather around it without collapsing into a single account.
Memories written by Masayoshi Ishikawa, each tied to one of his musical compositions, enter as the work’s fixed anchors. The readings diverge because each temporal scale keeps its own orientation. They converge because all are drawn toward the same memory. None replaces the memory. Instead, each contributes to a shifting field of conditions through which the memory is encountered.
Ishikawa’s composition and live improvisation enter alongside the lenses, neither illustrating nor directing them. Like the lenses, the performance becomes another temporal encounter with the same memory.
One of two related installations exploring memory as a field of conditions rather than a stable record.
Developed with Masayoshi Ishikawa (composition and piano) and Seungho Lee (spatial design).
