Memory Works installation - Jim Campbell

Memory Works installationThe Memory Works (1994-1998) are a series in which each work is based upon a digitally recorded memory of an event. Some of these electronic records represent a personal memory and others represent a collective memory. These electronic memories are manipulated and then used to transform an associated object mounted on the wall. Avoiding the usual notions of what a memory is, none of the original memories is an image or a sound. These works explore the characteristic of hiddenness common to both human and computer memory. Memories are hidden and have to be transformed to be represented.

Photo of My Mother,

1996Portrait of My Father,

1994-95I Have Never Read the Bible,

1995Typing Paper,

1995Cyclical Counter base:time,

1996Cyclical Meter base:time, 1996Sand,

1995Anonymous Photograph of an Electrocution,

1994Night Light, 1995/98Reaching, 1998