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Decoding the Digital Border: Access Memories

Fragments of time are all that is left. A life of experiences and places visited becoming nothing more than memories engraved in the back of our mind waiting to be recalled in conversations with a colleague or during a quiet moment of reflection. Degrading as our bodies do with every passing moment until only abstract signifiers are left of entire events. Buildings remain buildings and trees are still trees but the details in the bricks and leaves get forgotten. Leaving behind only fragments of what was once there.

These images are no different. Archived annotations of moments we try to not forget. But where do they exist now? They have shifted from actual moments in time and got sent into a digital cloud of archives connected directly to the internet. Fragmented into bits of code and pixels ready to be called upon at the touch of a button.
But what happens to the memories and their spaces when we replace them with only a digital footnote of what they once were? Does the image reflected on the screen now take its place? Do they become new spaces entirely? This train of thought was the driving force in studying the division between reality and virtuality.
Decoding the Digital Border: Access Memories
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Decoding the Digital Border: Access Memories

Decoding the Digital Border: Access Memories

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