MachineMachine /stream - tagged with memory https://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss LifePress therourke@gmail.com <![CDATA[Instagram and Snapchat Are Ruining Our Memories]]> https://www.vice.com/en/article/8xydwz/social-media-is-ruining-our-memories-v26n1

Documenting our lives for Snapchat and Instagram can decrease the likelihood of retaining those moments as a significant memory. This story appears in VICE Magazine's Truth and Lies Issue. Click HERE to subscribe.

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Fri, 03 Jun 2022 05:52:50 -0700 https://www.vice.com/en/article/8xydwz/social-media-is-ruining-our-memories-v26n1
<![CDATA[Instagram and Snapchat Are Ruining Our Memories]]> https://www.vice.com/en/article/8xydwz/social-media-is-ruining-our-memories-v26n1

Documenting our lives for Snapchat and Instagram can decrease the likelihood of retaining those moments as a significant memory. This story appears in VICE Magazine's Truth and Lies Issue. Click HERE to subscribe.

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Fri, 03 Jun 2022 01:52:50 -0700 https://www.vice.com/en/article/8xydwz/social-media-is-ruining-our-memories-v26n1
<![CDATA['Remember the Internet': An Encyclopedia of Online Life - The Atlantic]]> https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/03/remember-the-internet/618350/

For many of us, for better or for worse, the internet is home. Our communities are here, because many of them could not exist any other way.

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Mon, 17 May 2021 23:55:31 -0700 https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/03/remember-the-internet/618350/
<![CDATA[Please Stop Calling Things Archives | Perspectives on History | AHA]]> https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/january-2021/please-stop-calling-things-archives-an-archivists-plea

Various disciplinary “archival turns” over the course of the past few decades have resulted in a tendency towards the over-casual use of the word “archive” as a shorthand to refer to, well, just about anything.

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Wed, 31 Mar 2021 07:56:06 -0700 https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/january-2021/please-stop-calling-things-archives-an-archivists-plea
<![CDATA[Collecting in the Age of Digital Reproduction - Casey REAS - Medium]]> https://medium.com/@REAS/collecting-in-the-age-of-digital-reproduction-ab0640a42fe6

In the art market, almost everything sold is an object such as a drawing, a painting, a sculpture, an installation, or a photograph, but there are some exceptions. These deviations may include a contract, a set of instructions, a digital video file, or a software file.

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Wed, 11 Sep 2019 04:28:29 -0700 https://medium.com/@REAS/collecting-in-the-age-of-digital-reproduction-ab0640a42fe6
<![CDATA[The Materiality of Research: ‘On the Materiality of Writing in Academia or Remembering Where I Put My Thoughts’ by Ninna Meier | LSE Review of Books]]> http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2016/02/26/the-materiality-of-research-on-the-materiality-of-writing-in-academia-or-remembering-where-i-put-my-thoughts-by-ninna-meier/

In this feature essay, Ninna Meier reflects on the materiality of the writing – and re-writing – process in academic research.

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Mon, 09 May 2016 01:16:32 -0700 http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2016/02/26/the-materiality-of-research-on-the-materiality-of-writing-in-academia-or-remembering-where-i-put-my-thoughts-by-ninna-meier/
<![CDATA[Heritage as a Platform: New Frontiers in Cultural Preservation | Gates of Nineveh: An Experiment in Blogging Assyriology]]> https://gatesofnineveh.wordpress.com/2016/03/04/heritage-as-a-platform-new-frontiers-in-cultural-preservation/

A few weeks ago on this site I reviewed John Robb’s book Brave New War, discussing the potential of reconfiguring heritage preservation from a top-down, hierarchical model into a participatory, two-way, resilient and distributed platform.

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Thu, 17 Mar 2016 17:05:05 -0700 https://gatesofnineveh.wordpress.com/2016/03/04/heritage-as-a-platform-new-frontiers-in-cultural-preservation/
<![CDATA[Art and activism collide at Iraqi artefact exhibition in Toronto]]> http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/art-and-activism-collide-iraqi-artefact-exhibition-1186982388

TORONTO, Canada - The mood is haunting at Morehshin Allahyari’s first solo exhibition in Canada, as a dozen reconstructed artefacts destroyed by Islamic State (IS) group fighters look up from ledges and beneath glass casings.

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Thu, 17 Mar 2016 17:04:55 -0700 http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/art-and-activism-collide-iraqi-artefact-exhibition-1186982388
<![CDATA[The Distributed Monument: Part of The Download series at Rhizome]]> http://additivism.org/post/139433938466

The Distributed MonumentThe Download is a series of Rhizome commissions that considers posted files, the act of downloading, and the user’s desktop as the space of exhibition.Material Speculation: ISIS/Download Series (King Uthal) by Morehshin Allahyari is the second Download. The 570MB downloadable ZIP file is below. Work from the series also appears on the Rhizome front page through Feb 21.Can the internet resurrect the dead? The lost art object—be it speculative, missing, or destroyed like a statue smashed by ISIS—now circulates as JPGs, PDFs, and YouTube videos. Untethered from physical matter, these files work to extend life.↪ Read the full essay, and explore the archive of Morehshin’s research, here

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Tue, 16 Feb 2016 10:36:00 -0800 http://additivism.org/post/139433938466
<![CDATA[Essay on Morehshin Allahyari’s Material Speculation & #Additivism]]> http://additivism.org/post/139169108961/essay-on-morehshin-allahyaris-material

This stunning essay, written by Alexis Anais and Anna Khachiyan, accompanies Morehshin Allahyari’s Material Speculation exhibition, at Trinity Square Video, Toronto: As ISIS has shown, the potential futures that digital technology promises to provoke almost always teeter on the ethically ambiguous—trapped in a crossfire of discourses that vary depending on who’s doing the talking…Allahyari’s work refuses to accept this hypocrisy, which seem to ignore the many number of intimidations put forth by the West. She recognizes that what has traditionally been considered public history is often made vulnerable, subject to possession by organized violence and radical politicking, in which both sides are equally implicated…The concept of 3D printing as symbolic of corporeality and mortality is defined in the Manifesto as “infatuation,” following the idea that the human body desires a cyborgian evolution. ↪ Read the full essay here

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Sat, 13 Feb 2016 04:20:38 -0800 http://additivism.org/post/139169108961/essay-on-morehshin-allahyaris-material
<![CDATA[In Acts of Resistance, Artists and Scholars Digitally...]]> http://additivism.org/post/138179286271

In Acts of Resistance, Artists and Scholars Digitally Reconstruct the Past In the past year alone, members of ISIS have marred cultural treasures in Iraq and Syria, taking sledgehammers and drills to statues at the Mosul Museum and delivering numerous blows to the ancient site of Palmyra, including its 1,800-year-old Arch of Triumph.

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Wed, 27 Jan 2016 15:40:00 -0800 http://additivism.org/post/138179286271
<![CDATA[The Data Sublime]]> http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/the-data-sublime/

The sublime unknowability of Big Data lets us fall in love with our own domination. I have a memory from childhood, a happy memory — one of complete trust and comfort. It’s dark, and I’m kneeling in the tiny floor area of the back seat of a car, resting my head on the seat.

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Mon, 02 Feb 2015 11:13:53 -0800 http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/the-data-sublime/
<![CDATA[Google gets 12,000 requests to be 'forgotten' on first day]]> http://phys.org/news/2014-05-google-forgotten-day.html

Google received 12,000 requests from people seeking to be "forgotten" by the world's leading search engine on the first day it offered the service, a company spokesman in Germany said Saturday.

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Sun, 01 Jun 2014 05:23:08 -0700 http://phys.org/news/2014-05-google-forgotten-day.html
<![CDATA[Mathematical Model Suggests That Human Consciousness Is Noncomputable - Slashdot]]> http://beta.slashdot.org/story/201783

KentuckyFC (1144503) writes "One of the most profound advances in science in recent years is the way researchers from a variety of fields are beginning to formulate the problem of consciousness in mathematical terms, in particular using information theory.

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Wed, 21 May 2014 13:29:39 -0700 http://beta.slashdot.org/story/201783
<![CDATA[All Can Be Lost: The Risk of Putting Our Knowledge in the Hands of Machines]]> http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/11/the-great-forgetting/309516/

We rely on computers to fly our planes, find our cancers, design our buildings, audit our businesses. That's all well and good.

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Sat, 09 Nov 2013 04:02:18 -0800 http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/11/the-great-forgetting/309516/
<![CDATA[Borges and Memory: Encounters with the Human Brain]]> http://bit.ly/UoXFIT

What is the genesis of Funes the Memorious, the Jorge Luis Borges story about a mnemonist that fascinates neuroscientists, and is as famed a fictional treatise on memory as anything but Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past?

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Sun, 11 Nov 2012 21:23:00 -0800 http://bit.ly/UoXFIT
<![CDATA[The Latest : 35-year-old Voyager 1 skirts solar system edge with an 8-track and 68K of memory | 89.3 KPCC]]> http://www.scpr.org/blogs/news/2012/09/04/9705/voyager-1-nasa-jpl-launch-anniversary-35-birthday/

With an eight-track tape recorder and 100,000 times less memory than an iPod, Voyager 1 is celebrating its 35th birthday at the edge of the solar system. Traipsing through a giant, turbulent, plasma bubble near the fringes, the longest-running, most-distant spacecraft in NASA's history celebrates a l

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Wed, 05 Sep 2012 01:05:00 -0700 http://www.scpr.org/blogs/news/2012/09/04/9705/voyager-1-nasa-jpl-launch-anniversary-35-birthday/
<![CDATA[Machines and memory]]> http://www.kernelmag.com/features/essay/2466/they-must-learn-to-forget/

Kernel on machines and memory, with some nice examples of apps that are exploring our changing relationship with both.

We are all digital archaeologists now, writes Robert Carroll. But in a world where nothing is forgotten, can we learn to forgive? Computers are better at recalling stuff than we are. The internet tends to remember by default, so stories about people haunted by juvenile blunders on Facebook abound. But surely a world with less forgetfulness is a good thing? Forgetting is lost keys and angry spouses. It’s old age and decline, Alzheimer’s and dementia. It’s a weakness to be overcome, not something to be clung on to. Yet, in a little less than a decade, digital technology has swung the balance from forgetting to remembering. Experiences and knowledge no longer need tangible artefacts like books or photographs to survive. Thanks to low-cost hard disks, it has become easier to remember than forget.

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Sat, 02 Jun 2012 09:33:40 -0700 http://www.kernelmag.com/features/essay/2466/they-must-learn-to-forget/
<![CDATA[Philip K. Dick, Sci-Fi Philosopher, (Part 3) : Adventures in the Dream Factory]]> http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/22/philip-k-dick-sci-fi-philosopher-part-3/

Philip K. Dick’s admittedly peculiar but passionately held worldview and the gnosticism it embodies does more than explain what some call the dystopian turn in science fiction from the 1960s onward, it also gives us what has arguably become the dominant mode of understanding of fiction in our time, whether literary, artistic or cinematic. This is the idea that reality is a pernicious illusion, a repressive and authoritarian matrix generated in a dream factory we need to tear down in order to see things aright and have access to the truth. And let’s be honest: it is simply immensely pleasurable to give oneself over to the idea that one has torn aside the veil of illusion and seen the truth — “I am one of the elect, one of the few in the know, in the gnosis.”

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Wed, 23 May 2012 10:00:42 -0700 http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/22/philip-k-dick-sci-fi-philosopher-part-3/
<![CDATA['Will reading in the digital era erode our ability to understand the world?' No, the world has designs of its own...]]> http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/the-essay-will-reading-in-the-digital-era-erode-our-ability-to-understand-the-world-7734221.html

Quite the opposite, so long as we grasp the fresh routes to knowledge, and connection, that technological change brings, says Nick Harkaway.

These are old, old fears in a new form. In ancient Greece, Socrates reportedly didn't fancy a literate society. He felt that people would lose the capacity to think for themselves, simply adopting the perspective of a handy written opinion, and that they would cease to remember what could be written down. To an extent, he was right. We do indeed take on and regurgitate information, sometimes without sufficient analysis, and we do use notes as an aide memoire - though even now, when our brains have begun to assume the ability to Google information, studies show we can still memorise facts perfectly well if we know we will need to. But Socrates was also wrong: literacy isn't a catastrophe for knowledge, but a huge boon. It allows us to gain an understanding of the work of lifetimes in short order, preparing the way for research into topics we might

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Thu, 17 May 2012 03:38:40 -0700 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/the-essay-will-reading-in-the-digital-era-erode-our-ability-to-understand-the-world-7734221.html