Memory and Media

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Twenty Years Ago, William Basinski Witnessed 9/11—and Memorialized It in Music

How William Basinski’s life prepared him to compose The Disintegration Loops.

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Memento at 20: Christopher Nolan's memory thriller is hard to forget

The ambitiously structured noir gave us an early sign of what was to come from the director who would go on to bigger, if not always better, things

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Creative Memory Projects

Here is a small sampling of creative memory projects from Memory and Media, 2010-2019:

Oh My Memories

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lucid dreaming lucy in the sky

Memorial

The Official Story

Remembering a Good Book

Memory of a Walk

Memory of Tiananmen

Wolfe Tone

The Day I Learnt the Importance of the “Box”

Beatlemania

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Everything old is new again, again: VHS tapes are back in vogue

The video format have long been out of fashion. But some aficionados hunger for objects you can hold instead of files floating in a cloud.

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These days we’re marinated in news all day long – meaning that Marion Stokes was way ahead of her time. For more than 30 years until her death in 2012, the Philadelphia resident recorded the news 24 hours a day. More than 70,000 tapes of footage were amassed, covering everything from the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis to the 1986 Challenger shuttle disaster, 9/11 and the Sandy Hook massacre.

(via 'Giant cookies and 9/11': the woman who recorded the news 24 hours a day | Film | The Guardian)

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(via Scarfolk Council: Memory Chemicals (1979))

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Creative Memory Projects

Here is a small sampling of creative memory projects from Memory and Media, 2010-2014:

Memorial

The Official Story

12 December 2012: A Recollection

Remembering a Good Book

Memory of a Walk

Memory of Tiananmen

Wolfe Tone

The Day I Learnt the Importance of the “Box”

Beatlemania

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Chris Marker: “My working hunch was that any memory, once it’s fairly long, is more structured than it seems. That after a certain quantity, photos apparently taken by chance, postcards chosen according to a passing mood, begin to trace an itinerary, to map the imaginary country that stretches out before us. By going through it systematically I was sure to discover that the apparent disorder of my imagery concealed a chart, as in the tales of pirates. And the object of this disc would be to present the ‘guided tour’ of a memory, while at the same time offering the visitor a chance for haphazard navigation. So, Welcome to 'Memory, Land of Contrasts’ – or rather, as I’ve chosen to call it, 'Immemory’.” (via Immemory by Chris Marker - Chris Marker)

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(via Facebook launches 'clear history' tool – but it won't delete anything | Technology | The Guardian)

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The Ghosts of our Lives: “From communism to dubstep, our politics and culture have been haunted by the spectres of futures that never came to pass”

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(the onion.com: Hometown Wistfully Toured Via Google Street View)

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(via The unlikely cassette comeback isn't over yet: sales are up in 2019 | WIRED UK)

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Do Holocaust Stories Belong on Instagram?

Eva Stories wants to tell the Holocaust’s history to the smartphone generation.

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It’s cool to spool again as the cassette returns on a wave of nostalgia

Sales are soaring and current stars are releasing tracks on the format… but is anyone actually listening to them?

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nostalgia (7), 2018 instagram | website | kofi

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They Shall Not Grow Old: World War I film a masterpiece of skill and artistry – just don't call it a documentary

It's beautiful, clever and moving. But Peter Jackson's use of colour and added sound essentially fictionalises this account of life in the trenches.